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VOLUME 45 —NUMBER 1
POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY
Notre Dame Takes
Positive Action
One of the strongest stands to be taken by any college
against campus violence was announced February 17 at the
University of Notre Dame.
In a letter to faculty members, students and their par-
They will be told that they are, by their actions, going
counter to the overwhelming conviction of this community
as to what is proper here. If they do not within that time
period cease and desist, they will be asked for theier iden
tity cards.
Those who produce these will be suspended from this
community as not understanding what this community is.
Those who do not have or will not produce identity cards
will be assumed not to be members of the community and
wm ue uiaigio with trespassing and disturbing the peace
on private property and treated accordingly by the law. . . .
After notification of suspension, or trespass in the case of
noncommunity members, if there is not then within five
minutes a movement to cease and desist, students will be
notified of expulsion from this community, and the law will
deal with them as nonstudents. . . .
There seems to be a current myth that university mem
bers are not responsible to the law, and that somehow the
law is the enemy—particularly those whom society has con
stituted to uphold and enforce the law. I would like to in
sist here that all of us are responsible to the duly consti
tuted laws of this university community and to all of the
laws of the land There is no other guarantee of civilization
versus the jungle or mob rule, here or elsewhere.
If someone invades your home, do you dialogue with him
or call the law?
Without the iaw, the university is a sitting duck for any
small group from outside or inside that wishes to destroy it,
to incapacitate it, to terrorize it at whim.
The argument goes—or has gone: Invoke the law and you
lose the university community. My only response is that
without the law you may well lose the university and, be
yond that, the larger society that supports it and that is
most deeply wounded when law is no longer respected,
bringing an end of everyone's most cherished rights.
Jonesboro High Chosen
For Junior ROTC Unit
Mr. Jack Troy, Editor
Forest Park Free Press
Forest Park, Georgia
Dear Jack:
The enclosed letter from
Brig. Gen. Donald Blake, Com
mandant, Air Force ROTC
announces that Jonesboro
Senior High School has been
selected to host an Air Force
Junior ROTC program begin
ning in September 1969.
Jonesboro Senior High was
selected by an Air Force Com
mittee after studying the
school program and visiting the
facility. As of now, Jonesboro
is the only Georgia school
selected to host a new unit.
Forest Park was approved for a
unit which is currently opera
tional.
Only five Georgia schools
are approved for Air Force
Junior ROTC Units next year.
We are proud of the fact that
two of these five schools are in
Clayton County.
Sincerely,
J. E. Edmonds
Superintendent
Clayton County Schools
Mr. J. E. Edmonds,
Superintendent
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ents, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh,
president of Notre Dame, outlined
immediate action that will be taken
against anyone disrupting university
operations. Included: On-the-spot
expulsion of students who persist in
disruptive tactics after a warning
and "15 minutes of meditation."
Excerpts from the Hesburgh letter
are given here.
Anyone or any group that substi
tutes force for rational persuasion—
be it violent or nonviolent—will be
given 15 minutes of meditation to
cease and desist.
Clayton County Schools
120 Smith Street
Jonesboro, Georgia 30236
Dear Mr. Edmonds
I am pleased to congratulate
you upon the selection of
Jonesboro Senior High School
as one of the 41 schools across
the nation which will begin to
host an Air Force Junior
ROTC unit beginning Septem
ber 1969. We earlier planned to
select 87 schools this year.
Budget considerations have re
quired us to reduce our goal to
41; thus, our plans now are to
reach the full authorization of
275 units in September 1972.
We visited many excellent
high schools in order to find
those which met our complex
criteria. The selection of your
school, particularly in view of
our reduced quota, indicates
the exceptional nature of your
educational program and your
interest in our Aerospace Edu
cation course. I feel you may
well take pride in this selection
considering the keen competi
tion among the many fine
schools which we visited.
1 have attached four copies
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Serving All of Clayton County
FOREST PARK Quarterback Club honored
the basketball teams of Forest Park High
School at a dinner. Shown here, Frazier
Watley presents trophy to Eddie. Creech.
Bank of Forest Park to Offer
Master Charge Credit Cards
Master Charge, one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing credit cards will be
offered as a new bank service by the Bank of Forest Park of Forest Park, Georgia in
the early summer of 1969, it was announced today by Mr. Pierce A Peacock, bank
president.
“The credit card may be used for clothes, gasoline, meals, medicine, lodging.
travel, household furnishings
and almost anything else, any
where, throughout the United
States and abroad. All pur
chases, no matter where you
make them, will appear on a
single monthly bill from the
Bank of Forest Park;you write
only one check. There will be
no charge of any kind if you
pay your bill within 25 days of
its date, and extended payment
privileges will be available for
those who desire them,” said
Mr. Peacock.
Master Charge with Inter
bank Card Association affilia
tion now has over 14,000,000
cardholders and is growing
daily. Cards are honored by
more than 200,000 merchants
throughout the United States
and many foreign countries. It
has the backing of major banks
in the North, East, South, and
West with over 3,000 banking
offices throughout the nation.
Through its affiliation with
Interbank, Master Charge
holders of the Bank of Forest
Park may soon go into almost
any city in Georgia and any
major city in the United States
or abroad to find their Master
Charge credit card will be
honored.
“It is the most versatile,
usable and practical of all bank
credit cards and it is best suited
to our area. We set down some
very rigid standards when we
decided to issue a credit card.
We made it hard on ourselves.
Our card had to be tops in
every respect. We believe a
Master Charge offers the great
est benefits to consumers and
merchants. Many independent
banks like ours, throughout
our nation, have signed up to
provide this new service in
their communities because of
merchant and customer de
mand,” said Mr. Peacock.
Master Charge was started in
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FOREST PARK. GEORGIA 30050, THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1969
1967 on the West coast by four
large California banks in com
petition with Bank Americard.
It spread to 90 banks in the
West and recently in the New
York area where First National
City Bank, Chemical Bank New
York Trust Company, Manu
facturers Hanover Trust Com
pany, Marine Midland Grace
Trust Company, have all
announced plans to offer Mas-
Woods Is Awarded
Scholarship in Organ
Robert Warren Woods, a
senior at the Jonesboro Senior
High School, and son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Woods, of
Jonesboro, has been awarded a
Performance Scholarship in
organ by the Department of
Music of the University of
Georgia according to Mr. Fred
C. Smith, Principal. He will
enter the University in the fall
where he plans to major in
religious music.
Bobby has an impressive
record as a young musician. He
plays french horn and organ. In
1968 he played french horn in
the All-State Orchestra, which
is composed of the best high
school instrumentalists in the
state, and he has recently been
chosen for the 1969 All-State
Orchestra. He was a 1967
Governor’s Honor Program par
ticipant in the field of music.
This past October Bobby
was organist for a state Metho
dist United Nations Seminar
which traveled to New York
City.
Janet Causey received a trophy for the
girls. The trophies will be placed in the
trophy cabinet at Forest Park Senior High.
ter Charge in the spring,
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company of North Carolina,
The Virginia National Bank of
Norfolk, The First National
Bank of South Carolina, First
National Bank of Miami, and
Southern Bankcard Association
which includes leading banks in
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missis
sippi, and Arkansas have also
recently joined Master Charge.
He is assistant organist for
the Jonesboro Methodist
Church and is responsible for
the music for the evening ser
vices.
SERVING COUNTRY
FRESH VEGETABLES
7 DAYS A WEEK
ROBERT WOODS
CHAMPION FOREST PARK GIRLS Front
row, left to right: Kathy Purdue, Kay
Carter, Cindy Stanford, Jan, Bradford
Marsha Kee, Debbie Purvis, Patti Sinor,
Karen Teems; back row, I to r: Coach
Forest Park
PO Moves
To Courtney
I'he Forest Park Post Office
moved to a new location on
Friday of last week. Although
expected, the actual time of
the move was sudden, Post
master Phillips tells us, making
it impossible to let the public
know in advance through their
newspaper.
The new address is 4999
Courtney Drive, and the tele
phone is 363-1804. The new
building is not as yet com
pleted, but the extra space pro
vided should be of value in
giving even better service.
Support
Memorial
Program
Families, employee groups
and organizations can honor
the memory of a departed
loved one or friend through the
Memorial Fund service of the
American Cancer Society, Mrs.
Lindy Krebs, Chairman,
Memorial Program, of the
Society’s Clayton County Unit
said today.
Memorial gifts are acknowl
edged to the family of the de
ceased, showing who made the
contribution, but not the
amount. Funds received this
way are used to help fight can
cer through research and edu
cation.
The procedure is to send the
name of the deceased, name
and address of members of the
family to be notified and the
memorial contribution to the
Clayton County Unit of the
American Cancer Society, 124
McDonough Street, Jonesboro.
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IT'S GIGANTIC!
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Smith, Joan Butler, Janet Causey, Terri
Haig, Carol Haynie. Deborah Robinson, De
lores Cole. Rhonda Cook. Jenny Babb.—
(Photo by Pete Smith.)
Forest Park Girls
Take 7-AAA Title
BY RODNEY HUDLOW
Ihe l ores! Park Pantherettes, climaxing their
greatest season ever, defeated the Robert E. Lee girls
Saturday night 45-43. to win the 7-AAA region
championship at Clarkston, led by their great coach
John Smith. These wins in the region tournament upped
their season record to a fan
tastic 25-0.
During the regular season
the Pantherettes defeated
North Clayton, lowers,
Columbia, Jonesboro, South
west DeKalb, Avondale,
Griffin, and Robert I Lee
twice, and Walker, Clarkston,
Gordon, and Lakeshore once
each. Over the Christmas holi
days they added another
trophy to their collection by
winning the Flint River Tourn
ament.
Even though the girls fin
ished the regular season unde
feated they still had to win the
region tournament to be of
ficially declared “region
champs”. They opened up the
tournament last Wednesday
with an impressive 55-35 win
over Griffin. Marsha Kee led
the Pantherettes with 21
points. Then on Friday they
faced lowers in the semi-finals.
Led by Janet Causey’s 28
points, they easily took this
one G4-3Q. They then advanced
to the finals where they met
Robert E. Lee for the title.
Earlier in the season the girls
had just squeaked by the
Rebels 33-27, and Saturday
night was no different. In fact,
they trailed by 8 at the half,
but Coach John Smith pulled
his girls together for a second
half rally that won the game.
The heroines for the Panthe
rettes were Janet Causey ami
Marsha Kee. Causey won the
game with two free throws
with only .04 seconds remain-
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ing and Kee took all scoring
honors with 28 points.
During the season Causey
led the team in scoring, averag
ing 28.5 points per game. Kee’s
11.4 average is deceiving be
cause she has greatly improved
during the latter part of the
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COL. A. J. McDermott, Jr.
U.S.A. (Ret.) has been ap
pointed to the position of Di
rector of Industry and Trade
with the Bank of Forest
Park. Col. McDermott com
manded the Atlanta Army
Depot from October, 1966, to
October, 1968.