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FP Kiwanis to Host
12th Division Rally
The Twelfth Division of
the Georgia District Interna
tional will hold a rally Thurs
day. March 28. Forest Park
Kiwanis Club will be host for
this event, and ladies' night
will be held at the same
time. Ernest L. Cheaves,
lieut. gov. of the 12th, in an
nouncing the rally urged
every member of each Ki
wanis Club to make plans to
attend and bring their wives.
Kiwaniannes.
Cheaves stated the dinner
meeting will be held at the
Atlanta Army Depot Officers
Club at 7:30 p.m. There will
be fellowship, fun. excellent
food and entertainment.
Special music will be ren
dered by "The Harmonettes.”
Featured speaker will be
Kiwanis Gov. Charles Smith.
He is a charter member of
the Dougherty County Ki
wanis Club, with 15 years of
perfect attendance. He has
held many Kiwanis officer
ships both on a local and
district level, and has served
in many areas of leadership.
He is a 1936 graduate of Al
bany High school, has a BS
degree in Physics. 1949. from
The Citadel; Commissioned
in the U.S. Naval Reserve and
a Naval Aviator in May,
1941; served nine years' ac-
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tive duty with Navy; retired
as Commander. USNR, in
1967. Presently owner of
Smith Realty Co. in Albany.
A program about automo
bile safety was presented at
the weekly meeting of the
club March 7. Kiwanian Bill
Elrod had as guest and
speaker James W. Hall. Jr.
Hall is on the President's
Committee on safety. He
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neath, that's what it is.)
You might say the Karmann
Ghia is for people who want
everything for their children.
And just a little something for
themselves.
Kiwanis Hear Agriculture Ex pert:
‘We Must Show Poor
Peoples of World How’ ,
At the bi-monthly lunch
eon meeting of the Atlanta
Civitan Club, guest speaker
D. W. Brooks, general mana
ger of the Cotton Producers
Association, gave an inspir
ing talk regarding the agri
cultural and spiritual situa
tion of the world today. Al
though he could not actual
ly paint a rosy picture, he
did present a “pink" one at
least, which gave heart to
many in the audience who
had felt let down by the pre
dicament in which the U. S.
finds itself.
Mr. Brooks, a former pro
fessor of agriculture at Uni
versity of Georgia and who
has enough other titles to
fill his own volume of “Who’s
Who,” has served under four
U. S. presidents on various
advisory committees and
now is on the Cotton Board.
He recently returned from a
trip to the Far East, where
he was pleased to find the
attitude toward the U. S.
was one of respect.
“There has been a com
spoke on the studies and
changes being made in auto
mobile safety. In recent
years some changes have
been made in the automobile
itself, which have helped
reduce injuries and deaths.
Statistics show that by
using the automobile seat
belt, for example, serious in
jury or death is greatly re
duced.
J. W. Smith will be pro
gram chairman for the next
Forest Park Kiwanian meet
ing on March 14.
Formation of Kiwanis clubs
in three new countries bring
into sharp focus Kiwanis’
rapidly expanding interna
tional extension program.
The three clubs and their
countries are: Panama City,
Panama, Taipei, Tawain, and
Milano, Italy.
These latest additions
brings to 26 the number of
countries in which Kiwanis
clubs are located.
plete change in their senti
ments in the past two years,"
Mr. Brooks said, and one am
bassador asked him why
there was such a surge of
■ riots and uprisings against
, our government in our own
country, which Mr. Brooks
was hard-put to explain. The
ambassador said his people
fervently hoped the U. S.
would not pull troops out of
Vietnam or the whole world
would be gobbled up by Com
munism. The people of the
East are willing and eager to
help our efforts there, and
many troops were sent from
Thailand to aid the Ameri
cans in Vietnam.
Mr. Brooks commented
that we must continue to
stave off Communist attacks
on all fronts. The level in
which he is most interested
is, of course, agriculture. On
his trips to Indonesia he has
been involved in trying to es
tablish fertilizer plants to
aid productivity, so that the
world food famine predicted
by some experts for 1970
may be averted.
“But,” he said, to build a
factory the size we need, the
cost would be approximately
SSO million, which is more
than double the cost to build
a similar complex in the
States, despite the fact that
labor is so abundant and
cheap there. The time to
complete such a project is
estimated at eight to 10
years, compared to two years
here. Apathy is so much a
part of the people they have
no incentive. I felt so sorry
for them I began to suffer
from what I call 'compassion
'Forgotten Children'
The following is a speech made to the House of Repre
sentatives recently by Rep. Arch Gary:
Mr. Speaker and Members of the House:
In the little world in which children have their exist
ence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely
perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Those aren't my lines. They belong to Charles Dickens .
but regardless of who said them first, they are truth. Abso
lute, heartbreaking, agonizing truth.
That’s why there is no room for debate in this situation
before us. Absolutely none.
Where children are concerned their happiness, their
health, their very lives ... we cannot talk about whether
we will save or destroy them.
We cannot sit around this comfortable chamber after a
comfortable breakfast, making comfortable talk about the
discomfort of taxes . . . not when 150 or 200 or even one
child is suffering behind the same walls and in the same
rooms as the crazed and the addicted and the perverted.
This is a relic of the medieval age, and it is happening
right here in the State of Georgia in 1968 And to compound
this abomination, this neglect of even basic human duty,
is the fact that we were ignorant of it .we did not know
about it until it was put into print for everyone to see
and be sickened.
What are we doing here? . . . what is the matter with
us? . . . why don’t we find out the prevailing conditions
that exist? . . . find out for ourselves before somebody else
has to tell us about them and then hear us reply, “We cer
tainly didn't know all that was going on.’’
The time was yesterday, ladies and gentlemen . . . yes
terday. And we never even knew’ it passed by.
And now . . budget .. . money .. . taxes . . fiscal
this or fiscal that . . . these are certainly of no relevance
here. I say that we save these children of misery, baptized
in tears. Not only that, I say that every citizen of Georgia
demands it ... no matter what the cost. The price has been
precluded by the fact. Our duty is clear
Remember—
The child’s sob in the silence
Curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath.
Let us obliterate this terrible curse upon our conscience.
God grant that it never happens again.
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fatigue.' Also, Communist
inspired uprisings in the
smaller countries have hin
dered progress in industrial
growth, but they are trying
to overcome the setbacks
with our help, knowledge
and funds."
As for the agricultural sit
uation in the U. S.. Mr.
Brooks stated that today
only 6 per cent of the popu
lation live on farms, but pro
ductivity has increased 77
per cent per farmer over the
past several years, due to re
search and successful exper
imentation in breeding, dis
ease control and improved
equipment However, the
farmer hasn't profited by
this increase because the
market became flooded,
thereby decreasing prices.
Fifteen years ago when the
new production programs
began, a chicken farmer in
Georgia could produce one
pound of meat from a broil
er using four pounds of feed
in a 15-week period, Today
he can net one pound of
meat using two pounds of
feed in seven weeks. But,
whereas his broilers used to
sell for 25 cents per pound,
they now sell for 13 cents.
"The overall picture is
good, though,” Mr Brooks
said cheerily. “Our economy
is high, and we are enjoying
prosperity such as the world
has never known. What we
must do is become leaders of
the poor peoples of the
world and show them how
it’s done. That is the answer
to Communism and the se
cret to peace.”
SUZANNE JENSEN
Forest Park
Socials
By NANCY LITTLE
366-6499 or 366-3080
A surprise baby shower
was given Mary Ann Drake
last night and we under
stand that it was really a
surprise. The theme "True
Blue" (Mary Ann already
has two girls) was carried
out in the decorations and
refreshments. About 20
guests joined hostesses Mike
Acton and Sylvia Avery in
the fun
Little Barbara Stanford,
daughter of Mr and Mrs.
James W. Stanford, will be
celebrating her seventh
birthday along with a group :
of friends Saturday at Dip- I
per Dan. Happy birthday. <
Barbara!
Are you looking for some
good recordings of your
favorite religious anthems?
Well, there is an excellent
album available at the Forest
Park and Jonesboro libraries.
The adult choir of the Jones
Memorial Methodist Church
“cut" the album and if any
one desires to buy one, I
understand a few are avail
able for sale. More informa
tion may be obtained from
the church.
Charlene Parramore, a
.student at Hapeville High,
has been selected as a Senior
Superlative and has been
named Miss Betty Crocker.
She also was one of the 200
young people who went to
the Georgia Youth Nutrition
Council
I am always delighted to
pass along any news of our
young people, so please let
me hear from you
Remember, the deadline is
Friday noon of each week
7 Clayton Youths
Al Safely Forum
Seven high school stu
dents, representing the
Clayton County Teen-Age
Traffic Safety Council, were
delegates to the Southern
Safety Conference in Mobile,
March 3,4, 5.
Theme for the conference
was “How Can Youth Con
tribute to the Promotion of
a Sound School, Farm, Traf
fic and Vocational Safety
Program?”
Marilyn Roberts. Linda
Quick and Mrs. Sallie Max
well served on the program.
Os the 37 delegates from
Georgia, representatives
from Clayton County were:
Pam Freitag, Forest Park
High; Susan Wilson, Deb
roh Puryear, Linda Quick,
Marilyn Roberts, Debby Ath
earn and Rodney Westmor
land. Jonesboro Senior High.
Chaperones were Mrs. R. J.
Bogolin, Driver Education
Teacher at Jonesboro High,
and Mrs. Sallie Maxwell, ad
visor for the Clayton Teen-
Age Traffic Safety Council.
Sponsors who made it pos
sible for these delegates to
attend were: Mitchell and
Whaley Volkswagen, Harry
White Ford, Bob Maddox
Plymouth, Edgar Blaylock,
Lamar D. Northcutt and
Sharon Abercrombie.
LINDA QUICK
SECRETARY
2 Students
Head FP
Hi Council
Forest Park Senior High
elected officers for the year
1968-69 on Friday, March 1.
The week consisted of 19
candidates campaigning for
five offices. Many weeks of
hard work on posters and
name-tags were followed by
the campaign week Candi
dates and their supporters
met on Tuesday to put up
over 400 posters in the halls
and lunchroom.
An assembly was held the
first three periods of the
day. The students heard
each candidate and their
campaign managers give
their speeches. The students
returned to their homerooms
and voted for their favorite
candidates. A majority was
needed in order to win. This
resulted in a run-off for
vice-president and treasurer.
The newly elected officers
are: Kaye Carter and Harold
Benefield, co-presidents;
Karen Teems, vice-presi
dent; Sharon Collins, secre
tary, and Diana Goodman,
treasurer.
—Bobby Whitmire
Volkswagon recalls 42,000
for safety check.
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1968 4-H OFFICERS of the Ash Street Fifth Grade 4-H
Club are (left to right): Secretary, Leona Sharon; Presi
dent, Robert Tucker; Girls' Vice President, Denise Ovle
ton; Boys' Vice President. Carl Storm; Reporter. Brenda
Long.
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SIXTH GRADE 4-H CLUB officers at Ash Street Elemen
tary School are (left to right): President. Sybil Stone;
Girls' Vice President. Jerri Brooks; Boys’ Vice President,
Larry Mackey, Reporter, Kathy Callaway; Secretary,
Michele Phillips.
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Meeting at Kiwanis Youth Center
91 South Ave. Forest Park
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COUNTY
CONVENTION
The Clayton County Republican
Convention is hereby called to
convene in the Clayton County
Courthouse, Superior Court Room,
in Jonesboro, Georgia, on Satur
day, March 16, 1968, at 12 noon
o'clock for the purposes of organ
izing the Republican Party in
Clayton County and electing the
County Officers, Delegates and
Alternates to the Congressional
District and State Conventions.
Only those Delegates and Alter
nates newly elected in the respec
tive Election Districts (Precincts)
at Mass Meetings held on March
2,1968, shall be entitled to sit and
participate.
Signed
Edgar Blalock Jr.,
Chairman
Clayton County Republican
Committee
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