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VOLUME 45 — NUMBER 7
POINT OF VIEW
It is always a matter of personal satisfaction to be liv
ing in a community which is alive with go-ahead projects.
We may be just one of those who “only stand and wait,’’
yet we experience the joy of “belonging.’’ Clayton County Is
surely THAT sort of county, all over, from The Panhandle to
the borders of Fulton and Atlanta, and East and West,
wherever the county stretches. Today we heard from the
local Heart Fund Committee that their goal for the year
had surpassed the mark set. Another news release from the
City of Forest Park told of the wonderful maintenance of
its streets. The young men and women of the Senior High
Schools in the County are proud of their success in the field
of sports, and justly so. And the younger children are right
behind them, making sure that as they grow, the good exam
ple of their older brothers and sisters will not be in vain.
Yes, it is indeed good to belong to such a progressive, friend
ly, happy County as Clayton County, Ga.
School Bond Referendum
Will Be Voted On May 20
The Clayton County Board
of Education at its regular
meeting Monday night, April 7
passed a resolution calling for a
bond referendum to allow the
issuance ot 4/2 million in
school bonds for new school
construction. The members of
the Board ot Education and
the Superintendent were dis
appointed in the fact that the
recent session of the Georgia
General Assembly failed to ap
propriate funds for new school
construction. This is the first
time in many years that Clay
ton County has not had some
state funds available for new
schools. The 416 million bond
Depot Cites John Tally
For Saving Govt. $35,800
ATLANTA. ARMY DEPOT John I). Tally,
assistant chief. Depot Traffic Management Division, has
been cited for his initiative in saving the Government
$35,800.
Mr. Tally developed a plan for shipping 48 light
(0-1-A) planes to Southeast
Asia at a savings of $746 per
plane: He coordinated de
liveries with Air National
Guard training schedules. The
0-1 -A planes were dismantled,
loaded into C-124’s for air de
livery to Dobbins Air Force
Base; the planes were then sent
by Military Air Command to
Southeast Asia.
Tally’s resourcefulness paid
off in a number of ways: The
planes were delivered to South
east Asia in much less time
than would have been possible
otherwise. Surface delivery
would have been slow; flying
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issue will be voted upon on
May 20 and will be used to
construct an addition at the
North Clayton Senior High
School and to do extensive re
modeling and renovating the
Forest Park Junior High School
and Jonesboro Junior High
School. Part of the money will
be used for equipment of new
buildings and the remainder for
construction of new elemen
tary classrooms. The County is
continuing to experience
tremendous increase in school
age children. Most of this
growth appears to be through
the middle section of Clayton
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each plane to the port would
have been costly and would
have added too many hours to
the plane engines. Further,
valuable training was provided
members of the Georgia Air
National Guard. All this, in
addition to the $35,800
monetary savings to the Gov
ernment.
A native Atlantan, Mr. Tally 1
attended Emory University and
Georgia State College; is af
filiated with EmmanuaFPresby
terian Church where he is a
ruling elder and four-time
superintendent of the Sunday
School. He is a charter member
of Chapter 28, Armed Forces
Management Association; has
served on the Board of Di
rectors of the National Defense
Transportation Association,
and as military liaison, and
holds a life membership in this
organization.
He is a member of F&AM
Lakewood Lodge No. 443,
Lake wood Chapter 27, and
Commandery Couer de Lion
No. 4; a member of Delta Nu
Alpha fraternity; has worked
with Boy Scouts 35 years. He
is active in AMVETS, having
served as Commander of Post
3, as State Adjutant, Chaplain,
and other capacities; has filled
various official posts with the
American Legion, and holds
the Legion’s Distinguished
Service Award for Membership.
Mr. Tally has been em
ployed at the Depot 28 years.
HARBIN'S DRIVE-IN
RESTAURANT
(Georgia and Old Dixie Hwy.)
Serving All of Clayton County
THE JUNIOR Woman’s Clubs of Forest
Park, Morrow, Riverdale and Jonesboro at
tended a session of the Georgia Legisla
ture and had lunch as guests of Lamar
Northcutt. Distinguished guests attending
‘Sword of Hope’
Is Cancer Theme
A group of volunteers of the
Clayton County Unit of the
American Cancer Society have
adopted the “Sword of Hope”
theme in their efforts to battle
this dread disease. They are
part of a total aura of hope
that pervades the entire organi
zation particularly the local
unit at 124 McDonough St..
Jonesboro, Ga. No claims of
miraculous cancer cures are
being made or even predicted.
But, nonetheless, there is a dis
tinct feeling the battle against
the dread disease is slowly and
surely being won.
The reason for this hopeful
feeling can be found in many
areas. Last year, for example,
the President was informed
that the number of Americans
alive and cured of cancer had
grown to 1,500,000, a hundred
thousand higher than the year
before. To be considered cured
VOLUNTEERS PICTURED at meeting of Cancer unit
“Sword of Hope" kick off are, left to right, front row,
Mrs. Lauretta Fredricks, Mrs. Sara Ellen Anderson. Back
row, left to right, Mrs. Charlene McAfee, Mrs. Margaret
Fawkes, Mrs. Charlotte McCoy and Mrs. Bill Lee.
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30050, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969
of most types of cancer a
person must have been free
from all evidence of the disease
for five years after treatment.
Discoveries of new drugs
have helped in the fight against
leukemia, cancer of the blood
forming tissues. These new
drugs, together with more
efficient utilization of earlier
drugs, plus more specific tech
niques have helped a number
of leukemia patients live
beyond five years. This pro
gress has convinced some
scientists that a cure for
leukemia may be found sooner
than for many other types of
cancer.
Other life-saving factors,
Mrs. Mary Lee, Earlier Treat
ment Education Chairman of
the Clayton Co. Unit notes, are
the increasing awareness by
women of the value of the
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the luncheon also included Rep. William
Lee, Rep. Arch Gary and Sen. Terrill Starr.
Gov. Maddox greeted the women and wel
comed them to the capitoL
Dr. Foley
Gives Board
Exams
Dr. Henry L. Foley, Forest
Park, and Fayetteville Chiro
practor was in Atlanta at the
State Capitol Wednesday and
Thursday, April 9th and 10th,
to administer examinations to
new doctors who are desirous
for license to practice in Geor
gia.
Dr. Foley was appointed to
the Georgia Board ot Chiro
practic Examiners in 1967 by
his long time friend, Gov.
Lester Maddox, after ten years
of service to the Georgia Chiro
practic Association, including
being Presidentn 1967.
Dr. Foley resides with his
family on Gilbert Road in
Fayetteville.
Laßue
Grand
Opening
Laßue Jewelers in the all
new Sou th way Shopping
Center will be celebrating their
Grand Opening this Friday,
April 18, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Live music and dancing will
be included on the program
which will include Jimmy
Myers and the Cherokees and
Carolyn Carl, top Nashville
Country Hit Stars. They record
for Lou-Nita records. WGRI
radio station will conduct the
program.
Jimmy was recently
featured on the Huntley-Brink
ley news for his establishment
of the West End Day Care
Center which is a pilot project
for the U.S.
Laßue will be giving away
men’s and women’s watches
along with prizes every 15
minutes.
Records will be given away
by WGRI radio. This is the
Grand Opening for the Laßue
Jewelers’ chain in the Atlanta
area.
SERVING COUNTRY
FRESH VEGETABLES
7 DAYS A WEEK
LOTA
Festival
Saturday
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Ihe Inst annual Spring
Festival of the Morrow-Lake
City Recreation Association
will be held Saturday, April
19th from 1 I A.M. to 7 P.M. at
lake Harbin Elementary
School on Lake Harbin Road,
Morrow. Carrying along the
ideas used in traditional carni
vals at schools, the festival will
have many featured attractions
wherein you may test your
skill, such as the Fish Pond,
and balloon-darts.
You can even get rid of
some of those pent-up hostil
ities by hammering an old
auto, or realize that childhood
dream of riding the fire truck
which will be there, courtesy
of the Morrow Volunteers.
Possibly the biggest bonanza
of the day will be the bazaar
which will be the main attrac
tion in the Country Store, and
will offer a large variety of
homemade items ideal for
giving or keeping, as your
fancy strikes you. There will
also be a wide assortment of
items to choose from food to
clothing in the Country Store
itself.
A cake walk will be that
little lift your spirits need, and
if you don’t happen to win
one, you can always go a few
feet to Red Check Inn and
indulge in eating a slice of fresh
cake and a cup of coffee. If
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IT’S A SNAIL’S PACE—Tempers as well as radiators get
very hot as traffic backs up in the northbound lane of
Interstate 75 during resurfacing from Thames Road north
to University Avenue. Photo was taken at Highway 331
overpass at the Farmers Market in Forest Park.
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Dwarf House
Hapeville, Georgia
Music Educators Select
FPHS Band to Perform
On Friday, April IS, the
Forest Park Senior High School
Symphonic Band will perform
for music teachers from 11
southeastern slates at the
Southern Division Music Edu
cator's Convention in Mobile.
Alabama. The Symphonic
Band was one of two high
school bands selected to per
form at the convention.
The band will present a con
cert at 1:30 p.m. on Friday
Special
Red Cross
Classes
Mrs. Myra Cole, R. N., Nurs
ing Chairman, announces that
the Clayton County Unit of
the Metro Atlanta Red Cross is
offering a free course for ex
pectant mothers and fathers.
The course covers pre-natal
care, labor and delivery,
through post-natal care and
child development. Ihe classes
will be conducted by Mrs
Palmer Fletcher, R. N., on
Tuesdays and Thursday even
ings, April 29 May I, 6, and 8,
from 7:30 P.M. 9:30 P.M. at
the First Baptist Church of
Jonesboro.
For registration and further
information, please call Ihe
Clayton County Red Cross,
366-2228.
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followed by a rehearsal tech
mques clinic conducted by Dr.
Manley Whitcomb, director ot
bands at Florida State Univer
sity. At 5 00 p.m. on Friday
the band will present a “Pops"
Concert at the Spanish Pavil
lion in front ot the Mobile
Municipal Auditorium. Mem
bers of the band and chaper
ones will depart from Forest
Park on the morning of April
17 and return on Saturday.
April 19.
Lloyd Tarpley
Home ph. 478-8586
School 366-7072
40 New
Intluslries On
Ga. Power
Forty new industries repre
senting total capital invest
ments of $70,6 million located
on Georgia Power Company
lines during the first three
months of this year. .1. Curtis
Smith, manager of the utility's
industrial development divi
sion. announced this week
This compares with 52 new
industries with a capital invest
ment of $103.4 million that
began operation in the power
company’s service area the first
quarter of I 968.
All facilities reported by the
power company are manufac
turing or processing plants,
each with a minimum capital
investment of $50,000 and em
ploying at least 10 persons
In addition to the new
plants, 34 existing industries
expanded their operations dur
ing the first three months of
this year. Investment in the
expansions was $38.6 million.
In the first three months of last
year, 55 existing plants in
creased their productive ca
pacity at a cost of $35.1 mil
lion.
Ihe three-month gam of
plants and expansions will pro
vide employment for 6,317
workers at total annual wages
of $32.2 million. The corres
ponding period of last year
showed 6,362 new jobs at an
nual wages of s3l million.
