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VOLUME 44 —NUMBER 46
POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY
The SEC struck out on New Year's but Clayton County
has a winning team in the Courthouse.
I visited members of the team and wished them the
best of success in their terms—
Bob Roberts, Judge of Ordinary
Bob Deyton, Sheriff
Sharon Abercrombie, Commission Chairman
Joe Mundy, Clerk of Court
Ronnie Jones. Commissioner
Tommy Vaughan, Commissioner
Judge Harold Banke, Superior Court
Judge E. A. Foster, Civil and Criminal Court
Milton Worsham. Tax Commissioner
Pope Dickson. Coroner
Judge Ed Kemp, Superior Court
Marvin Miller. Solicitor
These are all good men, tried and true, and will lead the
county to many victories in the New Year.
Dennys Win Morrow
Decoration Contest
Ihe annual Christmas
Decoration Contest in Morrow
was held December 15-18. This
year the contest was divided
into three categories. I he first
category was the Best Over All
winner which included the over
all appearance of the home.
The winner of the first place
ribbon went to Mr. and Mrs.
H. S. Denny, Wendy Jean
Drive. I he first place runner-up
was Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Powers, 203 Wendy Jean Drive.
The Second category was the
Best Door decoration. This
ribbon went to Rev. and Mrs.
D. R. Williamson, 64 5 6
Peacock Boulevard. Second
Jim Germany President
FP Athletic Association
Jim Germany, local civic leader, has been elected
President ol the f orest Park Athletic Association for
1D69. Ihe Athletic Association has over 200 adult
members and has organized one of the most outstanding
youth sport programs in the State of Georgia.
Elected to serve with Presi
dent Germany are the follow
ing officers: Vice President,
Bill Roy; Secretary, LaVerne
Nix; 1 reasurer, Wally Congdon;
President Little League, Lorn
Garner; President Girl’s Soft
ball, Betty Jenkins; President,
Connie Mack, Bob Kinney;
President, l ootball, Willy Wil
liams; President. Girl’s Activi
ty, Betty Coogler.
Selected to the Board of
Directors of the Association
are Jim Davis, Rayinond John
son, Bill McCoy, Lindsey
Campbell, C.B. Howard, Betty
Councils of PTA
Plan Study Seminar
Atlanta, Fulton and Clayton
councils, P I A are jointly spon
soring a study seminar, 10:30
a.m., Thursday, Jan. 9, at
Greenbriar Theatre.
"Preventing Birth Defects”
will be the theme with Dr.
James F. Schwartz, director of
the March of Dimes Birth
Defects Center at Grady Hos
pital and a faculty member of
the Emory University School
of Medicine, as discussion
leader.
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and
runner-up went to Mr. and Mrs.
John Nolen, 1824 Carla Drive.
The third category was the
Best Yard and the winner was
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Walker,
13 1 Skylark Drive, third
runner-up was Mr. and Mrs.
M. P. Scurry . 6786 Darrell
Court.
Lhe judges for the contest
had a difficult job deciding on
the winners but they succeeded
in doing a marvelous job. The
judges were Mrs. Joyce Bates,
Clayton County Home
Economist, Miss Sara Staley,
Georgia Power home
Economist, and Mrs. Priscilla
Gothard.
Germany, Bill Page and Virgil
Kilby.
Ihe Forest Park Athletic
Association maintains the
Little League Baseball Pro
gram, the Connie Mack Base
ball Program, Ihe Girls Soft
ball Program, the Pop Warner
Football Program, and the Jim
I horpe Football Program.
Nearly 800 children participate
in these various programs, and
many of the fine athlete’s now
attending the Forest Park High
School got their start in one or
more of these programs.
Iwo new March of Dimes
color films, “They Must Not be
Forgotten” and “More than
Love” will be shown on the
morning program and a ques
tion and answer session will be
included.
Local PTA presidents, study
group chairmen, health chair
men, members and other inter
ested persons in the Atlanta
Fulton-Clayton counties area
are invited to attend. PT A
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HARBIN'S DRIVE-IN
RESTAURANT
(Georgia and Old Dixie Hwy.)
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30050, THURSDAY. JANUARY 9. 1969
THE JONESBORO Home Economics Chib
installed its newly elected officers for a
two-year term at its December meeting
which was held at the home of Mrs. Joye
Spates, Clayton County Extension Home
Economist. They are, from left to right:
Grady Minter
Re-Elected
To Board
Grady Minter of Jonesboro
has been re-elected as a mem
ber of the Executive Board of
the 236-member Southeastern
Region of the Antique Auto
mobile Club of America, Inc.
Other officers elected are:
Larry Bailey, Sugar Hill. Di
rector; Marlyn Couch, Stone
Mountain, Vice-Director; Bill
Hall, Atlanta, Secretary;
Robert Taylor, Atlanta,
Treasurer, and Mrs. Julian
Eady, Decatur, Editor-in-Chief
of the Region’s monthly publi
cation, PEACHTREE
PARADE. Additional Execu
tive Board members elected in
addition to Mr. Minter are
Sidney Konkle and Larry May
field of Stone Mountain,
Charlie Adams of Newnan and
Don Carle, Atlanta.
In recognition of her contri
bution to the club and its
membership, the Region at its
December meeting presented a
Life Membership to Mrs. Eady
who is serving her fifth year as
Editor. She is the daughter of
Mrs. C. D. Harrington of Forest
Park. Also receiving an award
at the December meeting was
Joel Moss of Riverdale who
was presented with a trophy of
writing the Best Historical
Article for 1968 for the
PEACHTREE PARADE.
One of the highlights of the
club’s new year will be its
second “See Georgia First”
Tour to be held in July which
will again be headed by Mr.
Minter. The first “See Georgia
First” Tour was held in 1968
with Mr. Minter serving as Tour
Chairman. It consisted of 24
antique cars covering 875 miles
in the seven day tour from
Atlanta to Georgia’s South
coastal area. Ihe tour proved
to be such a popular event that
the membership asked for
another similar tour in 1969.
Another highlight of the
club’s 1969 activities will be its
“Stone Mountain ‘69 Invita
tional Meet,” June 20-22,
headquarters for which will be
the Stone Mountain Inn. This
bi-annual event draws antique
cars and their owners from all
over the Eastern United States.
Mrs. Harold Hooper, president; Mrs. Hoke
('artledge, first vice president; Mrs. Wal
ter Green, second vice president; Mrs.
Harold Brown, reporter, and Mrs. Carroll
Mcßrayer, secretary-treasurer.
Clayton OEO Begins
Recruitment Drive
Ihe ( layton ( ounty Economic Opportunity
Authority, Inc., has begun its recruitment drive tor the
1969 Summer Head Start Program.
This program is for pre-school children whose fam
ily incomes tall within the OH ice ol Economic Oppor-
tunity guidelines and who are
live to five and one half years
of age.
The program is run at no
cost to the children and is
Area Scouts
Train in
Speaking
Some 300 Atlanta Area
Council Boy Scouts, represent
ing more than 75 troops in the
Atlanta Area, will participate
in the annual “OPERATION
PATRICK HENRY” public
speaking training program. I he
five-minute men, as the boys
will be known, receive their
instruction and coaching on
January 4 and 11, from 8:30
to I 1:00 a.m., at the Columbia
High School in Decatur. Ihe
boys will be trained by out
standing business and profes
sional men. Brig. General Mike
Y. Hendrix, Director of the
State Selective Service System
is chairman of this year’s event.
This unique Scouting pro
gram has trained thousands of
local Scouts and Explorers,
over the past four years, to
become spokesmen for Scout
ing. Each participant is trained
to make a five-minute talk on
Scouting, and then is invited to
speak, during February, to
civic club meetings, school
assemblies, American Legion
Meetings, church groups and
other interested organizations.
General Hendrix stated that
the boys completing both
training sessions will receive a
special Patrick Henry Certifi
cate. He also said that high
lighting this year’s sessions will
be talks by the Honorable
Lester Maddox, Governor of
Georgia and former governor
Carl E. Sanders.
We Serve
VEGETABLES
You’ll Like!
financed by the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity.
Children of Welfare recip
ients who meet the age require
ments are automatically eligi
ble.
Ihe OTO guidelines are as
follows:
Family
Size Non-Farm Farm
1 $1,600 $l,lOO
2 2,100 1,500
3 2,600 1,800
4 3,300 2,300
5 3,900 2,800
6 4,400 3,100
7 4,900 3,400
8 5,400 3,800
9 5,900 4,100
10 6,400 4,500
11 6,900 4,800
12 7,400 5,200
13+ 7,900 5,500
If you wish to enroll your
child in Head Start and he
meets both the age and income
requirements, please call the
Clayton County Economic
Opportunity Authority, Inc.
Office at 478-3567 or the
Forest Park Neighborhood
Service Center at 366-0516.
Registration is done on a
first come first serve basis. If
you wish to insure your child a
place in Head Start be sure to
register before or by January
15, 1969.
Wilma Shelnutt
Director
PAID FOR SUGGESTION
Philadelphia Seeking em
ployment for one summer,
Mrs. Rose Haggerty continued
to work for the Navy Aviation
Supply Office for 26 years and
has been paid the highest cash
award ever paid to a woman
employe for a suggestion. She
received $1,500 for suggesting
that unserviceable Navy air
craft engines be dismantled for
their usable spare parts.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MORROW, GA., NATIVE John W. Wilcox
steps into his A4 Skyhawk jet prior to a
Gifts for
Juvenile
Home
The Forest Park Chapter of
the NCHA, the Tee Pee Toters,
gave two Am/FM Table Model
Radios to the Girls dorm and
the Boys dorm of the Clayton
County Juvenile Home on
Tuesday evening, December
17, 1968.
These radios were purchased
with funds raised by the camp
ing club in the sale of the
Georgia Patch to other chap
ters of the NCHA on various
campouts.
Those participating in the
presentation were: State Presi
dent Buddy and Pat Leshe;
Chapter President Carolyn &
Marvin Willey; Chapter Vice
President Bryant & Frances
Jones; and NCHA Field & Teen
Directors Bob and Margie
Bird.
Ihe Tee Pee Toters are
presently conducting a First
Aid Class for Ihe members of
the chapter and all sister chap
ters in the Atlanta Area on
Wednesday nights. Classes will
be taught by Ralph Cagle of
Forest Park.
The primary aim of the
National Campers & Hikers
Assn, is to further camping and
to promote better state camp
ing areas and protect our
National Resources. The Tee-
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combat mission from the USS Intrepid.
Morrow Native Navy
Jet Pilot in Vietnam
ABOARD Uli USS INTREPID Wil II Till
SEVENTH I LEI I What good southern boy would
ever be caught on Yankee Station?
Lieutenant (junior grade) John W. Wilcox, the son
ol Mrs. Frances L. Wilcox of Queen Elizabeth Way.
Morrow, is one. As a Navy jet
pilot he flies daily from
“Yankee Station" the name
of the attack carriers’ and Ihe
Seventh Fleet's position oil the
coast of Vietnam.
Lt. (jg) Wilcox has flown
more than 70 combat sorties
from this aircraft carrier
missions that have taken him
over both North and South
Vietnam. Intrepid was one of
the aircraft carriers on Yankee
Station sending missions over
the North when the present
bombing halt was announced.
Iwo of his more than 70
missions have been particularly
memorable for the Jonesboro
High School graduate. Both
were over North Vietnam. “My
flight leader and 1 were on a
recon mission when we found a
100-foot barge camouflaged in
a river about halfway between
Ha 1 inh and Vinh. I had
rockets and was able to put all
of them right into the barge It
exploded and then continued
to blow again and again. It
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must have been lull of ammo.
It was the largest secondary
explosion that I have seen.” he
recalled.
Ihe second experience
Wilcox remembers most vividly
was in a two-carrier coordi
nated attack on the Vinh Son
area of North Vietnam Wilcox'
squadron. Attack Squadton
106, had been given (he job of
flak suppression destroying
any flak sites that shoot at the
attack group
“There was flak all over the
sky They were really shooting
that day. My flight leader and I
made an attack on one particu
larly active site I dropped my
bombs on the site and then saw
my flight leader's rockets hit
right on lop of my bombs. Ihe
flak site didn't shoot any more
that day.”
Lt. (jg) Wilcox won his
wings in May 1967. He was one
of the Navy’s last Naval
Aviation Cadets Prior to join-
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