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Lon Rice. Conyers
for my ■ friendship garden
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oughtfalness . . . and you
Uaude Upshaw for the four
crabapple trees. Last
for some like the beautiful
,ple drive out to see in Mr.
yard each Spring and my
s about
friend gave me
little ones he snitched on
of the fence from under
haws trees. X planted them
id the lot and one day with
said they would not bloom
died so up Mr. Upshaw
ith four nice trees and the
U 1 words that these would
efore I died. These lilies and
all be constant reminders of
ir friends.
. Editor s Fourm, a magazine
a by toe Executive
the Georgia "article, Press Associa
■ ■a this which is
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE
The Office Boy of the
[on News has proceeded to
in our proper place. In a re
iue of The Editor’s Forum we
,he mistake of saying that
t. Dennis Editor of the Cov
News Daily' who Times'would having purchased
hens uti
machinery in printing
Bulletin. The truth is that
ivington [ News had purchased
far and away bigger than
5g connected with The Athens
and ha* installed it as a part
[plant of The Covington News
press [rand will print 72,000 papers
will print in three colors
lav be desired Previously Tilt'
isville News-Tribune and The
County Timer have led the
d of weekly newspapers in
fegnificence |vington of their presses
[which News has established
1 mighty few big dailies
The Office Boy has also
i to task for failing to men
l The Covington News nas
Spring frock. The truth of
we are always so interested
k in reading The Chatterbox
fail to notice anything else
he News. Since our atten
been called to it we will
§--sp! and now that typography
e Covington News is about
one can find amongst week
ipers. Elsewhere in this issue
ound the Office Boy’s com-
4nd statement:” One of
Inins oi any of the weekly
•rs of Georgia is that of the
by of the Covington News
les under the heading of
ktterbox. We always read
P with a great deal of in
pee your Covington
pry 10th for the calling
|r secretary received .
(as we always have
)[ dropping in and having
h nim at the Capitol when:
business , . and now the
ulletin calls us there often
lal does not live there an\
) miss him but now
we can call it even he!
me back plenty with all
things he had to say about;
n . . . only thing I'm stv- |
ied about is that tile Boss
ivery word of tile Forum
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Checks Received By Local
Welfare Department
Wednesday
AVERAGE OF $9.84
PER PERSON PAID BY
COUNTY DEPARTMENT
More Persons Get Aid This
Month As Maximum
Nears
The Newton County Department
of Public Welfare has received pen
sion checks amounting to $2 099.50
for distribution to the aged, blind
a nd to dependent children,
Some of the checks were mailed
j this morning (Thursday) and others
will be distributed by the depart
ment workers. More than $100 in
crease over the previous month will
be paid according to Miss Katherine
Williams, efficient director of New
ton County. $1,936.50 was received
1 last month as compared with the
$2,099.50 for the present month.
There are 171 old age assistance
grants now as compared with 159
for the past month. These grants
average $10 36 each, a decrease oi
4c on each check. There are eight
gTants for aid to the blind as com
pared with 3 for the previous month
Each check averaged $9.00 which
is 16c per person less than January
Ten grants were given to aid depen
dent ’ children benefiting 26 children
averaging $9.79 per child totaling
*354.54 which is the same as the
previous month.
Since the beginning of the Public
Welfare Program in July in Newton
County, the department has approv
ed 195 casea Jor assistance and all
parties are receiving aid.
mately 25 others were approved, bin
lias been canceled due to death
i 7 others were closed from other
reasons Approximately 10 have been
definitely rejected. 523 applications
ar e still pending, but can not be
paid until more funds are provided
a ® the maximum for the county
is i us t about reached. Out of the
applications, 469 are for old age.
52 for dependent children,
Th e Welfare Department has also
disposed of many WPA, NYA, CCC
an d general assistance applications
in recent months. There are only
i hiee Persons employed in the Wel
fare dapartment here, but despite
this, the workers have handled tht
many departments promptly and ef
ficiently
office Th e office hours of the county |
are from 9 a m. to 12 noon;
each day. Miss Nellie Mitcham, as
interviewer, will receive all applica
tions and answer inquiries. Applica
tions for assistance are received on
Saturday only,
March Term Of ('nurt
To Open Monday
The March --- term of the Newton! |
Superior Court will b p held next
week with only a few cases of any
importance on the docket. The Grand
Jury will go into session Monday
morning. ^
Marian Hammonds
Employed At Rogers
The management of the Rogers
Grocery Stores announced Wednes
day that Mr. Marian Hammoncts.
of Porterdale, is now an employee
at the local store. The announce
ment was made by Mr. Harland
Rogers Manager of the Covington !
Store.
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Health Meeting Is Held At
Palmer-Stone School Building 5* I
The patrons
a e . , be amended , , the,
on
health Program they are adopting!
this year. Each student is given a
physical examination, particular at
tention being given to the condition
of the heart, .ungs, tonsils I !
and teeth
A permanent health record will be
kept on each student in order that
a check may be made tn succeed
■ng years as to improvement, etc. '
The Parent-Teachers Association
the organization sponsoring the 1
program, is taking advantage of the!
state's offer to supply serum for
typhoid and vaccination. Each stu
dent will be vaccinated and inocu-!
lated at a nominal cost. j
In addition to the above the As
sociation is attempting to have peri
n ------u,v...., sa „». c
* hear health talks by outotand-1
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$2,099 Paid To The
Needy Blind, Aged,
/ Dependent Children
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Agricultural
News Given By
County Agent
Farmers Vote 9 to 1 Over
- Cotton Belt For New
Farm Program
Well, so we shall have Marketing
Quotas for 1938. If you had been in
our office in 1934-35 and heard the
complaints of farmers under the
Bankhead Act you just never could
have conceived of those same farm
ers voting 4 to 1 in the county and
9 to 1 over the cotton belt for a
program that would allow them to
plant less cotton than did the Bank -
head Act But when a group of peo
pie vote for something 9 to 1 we
believe in a democracy that they
should have what they vote for so
now we will go to work and try to
find out the quota for each farm,
It seems to us that the county
should receive an allotment to plant
this year an acreage about 1500 less
than could have been planted in 1935
if every farm in the county had oeen
signed up and all had diverted 35 per
cent from their base. This means
the county should be able to plant
as follows: Every farm in the
this year about 16.000 acres,
The allotments will be arrived at
°n which cotton will be planted ’n
I9 38 must be signed up. A farm that
*s not signedup will not receive any
allotment and the operator will be
taxed 2 cents per pound on all the
cotton he produces. All farms
signed an acreage of 5 acres or less
will get the assigned acres to
Then not more than 2 percent of
county's allotment of acres will be
held in reserve to be distributed
(Continued On Page Twelve)
Emory-at-Oxford
Fencing Team
Lose to Savannah High Team
In Exciting Match
Saturday
The Emory- at -Oxford Fencing
Team lost to a team from Savannah!
High School by the close score of
34 to 33 in an exciting match Sat
urday afternoon. The match was tied
four bouts all at the end of the 8th
i n the final Captain Roy Campbell Sa-'
0 f Emory squared off against
vannah's Captain Ewaldsen. and lost
5 to 4 points,
Others who represented Emorj
Barton, Cline ‘
were Hadaway
Oampbell, Repllado. Shingler. Ratliff
and Meriwether
The next match scheduled for the
Emory team will be against Georgia
Tech here April 9th.
Prof. Marion Brook is coach of
the local team
The Phi Gamma Literary So
ciety won the Winter Team debate
from Few last Friday night, The sub- 1
j ect debated was: “Resolved that a
National Board of Arbitration would
settle all labor disputes. Webb Gar
rison and Wilfred Vam represented
the Negative and won for Phi Gam
ma. The Few Society was represent
ed by Dah McCartney and Louie j
Girtman, who spoke for the affirma
tlve
This, debate is the second of the
school year between these old rivals
Another one will be held near the
end of the Spring Term.
fast-changing events In Europe have considerably
dded to the importance of Hitler s visit to Rome
n May when the Reichsfuehrer will confer with
Mussolini on the Berlin-Rome axis and other inter
national affairs. Impressive preparations have
Regular Meeting
Kiwanis Club
_
Mr. Durden, r FA Director,
Was Guest Speaker At
Meeting *
The regular weekly meeting of the
Covington Kiwanis Club was
Thursday noon at the Delaney Hotel
with J. O. Porter, president,
ing.
Mr, Durden. FFA Director of the
camp near the Jackson Dam,
principal speaker. He discussed
p i an s of the new'tamp in
County and told how boys through
out Georgia would be benefited by
the government project. At the pres
ent ( lm( , 200 boys are working
at the camp building a large stone
mess hall which will seat about
409 people. The camp is expected
t0 °P Pn June 1 and a number of
Newton County boys will gathe.
there. All merchandise possible is
being purchased from merchant,-:
in Covington, he said
The talk was greatly enjoyed by
a11 w ho attended and nis remarks
were heartily applauded. After a
short, business session, the meeting
waK adjourned.
Joe Carter Morgan
Dies At Rockmart
Joe Carter Morgan, well known
former Newton County citizen, died
a * his home in Rockmart Wednes
day morning. He had many friends
throughout Newton County having
lived in this county all his life un
tii moving to Rockmart this year
Funeral services will be held at
Starrsville this aftternoon (Thurs
day) at 4 o'clock with interment in
the community cemetery. Services
will be conducted by Rev Walker
Combs assisted by Rev. Greene.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs
Madge Hays M gan three daugh
ters, Mrs. Colin Campbell, Mans
field. Miss Martha Gene, and Jane
Aaron Morgan, of Rockmart: four
sons. Jack and Luke, of Covington.
Nat and Robert, of Rockmart: six
sisters, Mrs. Claude Johnson, Mrs.
Lottie Dial, of Atlanta Mrs. L. C
Smith Covington. Mrs M. E Jack
son and Mrs. Stonie Hays, of Hays
tun _ ^rs. Alma Henderson, of Ox
t01 n,’ . d . three broth V , rs Morgan. c B M or
ga Decatur. W At
la . lta Brad Morg B Waycross rhe
Nfws exlends sV mpathv * the be -
reave q family
j c. Harwell and Son funeral di
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I\ - r O ( ~ OS€S IYItt(le tfy tflC
Cf fntp Pntml in This i
LOlinty „ During .. , ... Week •
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No cases W'ere made during the
past ten days by the State Highway
patrol in Newton County according
to A. L. Loyd. Motorists apparently
are using greater care in following
out the regulations as provided by! t
law according to the officials.
ing authorities on the subject Suci,
a meeting is planned for 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon. March 18th Tire
speakers for this meeting will be
Miss Elizabeth Branham, County
Health Nurse for Thomas county,
and Dr. W. J. Huson of Covington.
They will launch what is hoped to
be a new step toward adult educa
tion on health.
The P. T. A. patrons of the school:
take this opportunity to express
publicly their appreciation to those
doctors who have served the school in
years past. They also want to thank;
publicly Dr. Huson lor his profes-, anti|
-ional services already rendered
for those he will render in the fu- J
ture. parent!
The P. T. A. urges every
who has a child attending Palmer
Stone School to be present at the
meeting Friday afternoon. i
B E-o.X CO * J -1 j
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDai, mAtwvr
been made for the reception of the German dic
tator. including improvements to the Doria palace,
where he is expected to stay, and construction of a
sweeping new thoroughfare through the city for
Hitler s triumphal entry to government square.
“SiSSZ,
The Stone Mountain Baptist As
sociation held their quarterly joint
meeting at the Covington Baptist
Church Sunday afternoon with a
j large The attendance.
Re*. Walter AtUm*. pastor
| of “he Madison Baptist Church was
! the guest speaker. “The Daily Va
cation Bible School'' was the prin
cipal subject taken up at the meet
ing and plans were made to sponsor
these schools in all churches in
the district.
Representatives from more than
churches in the association at
tended and took active part on the
pr°Biam. The talk given by Rev
Adams was educational and inspi
rational and those who heard him
iece i ve( j much god from his mess
age.
Children Will
Receive Prizes
Porterdale Girls Club Will
Change Plans Of Flower
Show
At last week's meeting of the Por
terdale Business Girls club it was
decided, in connection with the Bibb
Fashion Show on April 21, to re
vise the program so as to provide
a bigger and better show. ChUd
ren will take part, according to the
new' plans, and mothers of Porter
dale are asked to enter their chilct
ren. • |
Supt. John Turner will give cash
prizes of $2.50 to the little bov andj ths|
ittle girl judged to be wearing
■noft attractive garment made of
Bibb material. These children mus^
be between the ages oi 2 and 8 years
In addition to the prize of $5.00 Mr.
Turner has offered, other prizes
will be given for the various types
of costumes A special feature of
the evening will be the first show
ing of beach outfits which Hie new
pool at Porterdale will make neces
sary. ,
Plans for the coming show have
been carefully outlined
Father of Mrs. John
L. Callaway Dies
Dr. Howard Ezell, father of Mrs.
John L Callaway - of thls clty - dled
at his home in Oliver Georgia after
an D* Ezell was
a re « red P hy f lan and ff the
most important citizens in . that area
Funeral services will be held
Thursday morning at Oliver. Geor
gia at the First Baptist Church!
where he had been a member for
more than 30 years Interment will -
** held at 2:00 unlock at Monti- j
where he had spent his
life.
Dr. Eaell is survived by his wife
Mrs. Bessie Ezell; two sisters, Mrs ;
John L. Callaway, of Covington, and
Mrs. Hamp Benton, of Atlanta; two J
brothers, C. a., of Monticello, and
R. L. Ezell, of Atlanta. The Newsi
extends sympathy to the bereaved
family.
The second meeting of those m-;
terested in playing Softball durin.
the coming season wa- held Mond.u j
at the Courthouse with Dr '.V K !
Swann presiding. Reports were mao*
by the committees appointed at the j
last meeting including grounds rule
and the possibility of having a light
ed field. Officers ot the associauio"
were elected for the coming vest
and are as follows: W K Swann
President. Directors T. U Smith
Benton. Owen Anthony and 1
W. O. j
W. L Sullivan
City and county officials have
kindly consented to cooperate m
having the grounds ready for playing
that well cry of batter up is
heard The rules committee nad a
splendid report to make showing
that considerable time had been
spent in preparing the regulations
as submitted It was generally agreeo
that the purpose of the league wa
to encourage players of all ages to
play especially those business men
would be able to participate in
5c SINGLE COPY
Churchill Leads
Team To Victory
Covington wins Athletic Club
Tournament At
Livingston
Byron 'Doc’’ Giiuichii
the Covington Athletic Club
the championship in the
A. C. invitation Tournament
last week.
Churchill handled the club in al
its games and was given fine co
operation on the part of the players.
On Wednesday night Covington
met McDonough and won 45-40
Thursday night they took on Mil
stead and won 57-52. William Keith
was the high scorer for Covington
with 24 points.
The final game on Friday night
against Livingston was a high scoi
ing contest and was won by
locals 72-52. Bonham Johnson led
the scores with 20 points
In the three games Covington
olayed, they scored 174 points. While
the opposing teams scored 144
Jackson. Gratis, Flippen, McDon
ough. Mils ted. Livingston, Porter
dale and Covington entered teams
Lineup on final game:
COVINGTON 72
Johnson <F> ______ 20
Keith <F> ____16
Bray <C' _____14
Ramsey (G> _____ 2
,Gi _____ 6
LIVINGSTON 52
j standard (F> _____ 17
q. Holderfieid <F> ____11 j
f. English (C> ____19
J. English (G) ------------- 3
w, Holderfieid (G) .
Subs. -Covington. Vinning. Black
<3) Gardner and Heard <2>. Liv
ingston: Chambers (2),.
score at halt. 37-27, Covington
Referee, "Mutt' Stephens.
Timer N. Fisher.
Covington Softball League
Meeting Held At Court House
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX OF CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Cotton And Tobacco
Marketing Quotas In
South Now Favored
F. D. Ballard
Taken By Death
Wednesday P.M.
Was One of Best Known Men
In This Section Of
State
Prank D Ballard, one of the most
widely known men in the state, died
at a local hospital Wednesday after
noon at 1 o'clock after an extended
illness.
Mr. Ballard had many friends, not
only in Newton County, but through
out Georgia He was a former re
presentative and later a Senator from
this county in the State legislature
After his term in the senate, he
was appointed to an office in the
Department of Agriculture and serv
ed actively there until his retire
ment several' vears ago.
After his retirement from politic*
life. Mr. Ballard centered his inter
est in farming and spent much oi
his time supervising this work until
his health prevented him from leav
ing his room at the home of Mr
O. W Hollis He was 79 years of age
at his death.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon (Thursday) at 3.00 o’clock
at the First Methodist Church in
I Covington Services will be conduct
ed by Rev <3. M. Haynes, pastor o:
the church. Interment will be in
West View cemetery,
Mr. Ballard is survived by one
ter, Mrs. M. W. Lawson, of
and a number of neices.
and grandchilde-n. The News
tends sympathy to the
family.
J. C. Harwell, and Son.
Directors, were in charge
Clark Guest At
Baptist Church
Former Missionary Tells Of
Experiences While In
i Japan
Dr. Harvey W. Clark, former miss
ionery to Japan, was guest speaket
at the First Baptist Church Sunday
morning and evening at the regular
services,
He is a distinguished Christian
statesman, having served actively
as the Southern Baptist Convention
missionary to Japan for 40 years
The first twenty years he was
stationed at Kumamota and during
the last twenty years he was trans
ferted to Tokyo. He is at present
on a brief furlough in the Southern
States visiting as many churches
as possible, seeking to give the
oeople first hand information con
-erning the present at the future
of the orient from a Christian view
point.
Dr. Clark's talk was very enter
taining and greatly enjoyed by the
large crowd which attended both
services His comments should mean
much to the people of this city in
drawing themselves closer to God
and in finding the need they have
in the Savior.
other sports All persons desiring to
olay are requested to fill in a So.t
call questionaire now «>z;iaole to
f 'nable officials to have a definite
working oasis toward league organ!
nation Mr. H O Whelehet and Mi
^ M Berrv cooperated with the
lighting committee and turnished
detailed information as to the cos'
that mvolved. the • lighting it was system generally would jgreedl be
very fine out no one at the meeting
voiunteeied to give financial aid So
as the situation now stands, no mon
sy; no lights
The present plan tor this season
will iind a six team leagup operat
in? or. a schedule similar to last
vear. The plavers will be selected
from Covington, Covington Mills aim
Oxford Any person or business es
tablishmenr. desiring to sponsot a
team this coming season should the
written application to Dr. Swann lm
mediately,
The league will hold tlieii tn xt
meeting at the Court house Wednes
day evening at 7:30 o'clock.
NUMBER 11
Georgia Producers Roll Up
Large Majority For
Plan
NEWTON FAVORS PLAN
BY A VOTE OF 795
FOR TO 190 AGAINST
Rockdale County Votes For
Plan By Vote Of 545
To 87
Southern cotton and tobacco farm
ers overwhelmingly approved mark
eting quotas for cotton and flue
cured tobacco in the March 12 ref
erenda, thereby paving the way for
lull application of the broad agri
cultural program recently enacted
by Congress. A two-thirds favorable
•ote of all cotton and flue-cured
, obacco farmers voting was neces
sary. under the law to make market
ing quotas effective.
Georgia farmers joined other Sou
thern cotton producers in rolling
<ip a large majority in favor of cotton
marketing quotas. The Georgia vote
on flue-cured tobacco quotas fell
slightly short of a two-thirds ma
jority, but. as the vote was on a
belt-wide basis, marketing quotas
tor flue-cured tobacco will be in
effect in Georgia just as they will
be in those states that gave the to
bacco quotas a heavy majority.
The cotton growers of Newton
County gave the new farm program
a lar § e majority as was expected. 81
percent of the total vote favored
P* an There were 876 votes cast
lor ar *o 19® against the
new deal in federa cotton regu
lations.
I vote * 0r Georgia and the farm
belt was as follows;
For 119.122. Against 22,038. Geor
percentage for 84.4, Approxi
mately Belt-Wide percentage for
92.4.
The vote for Newton and other
surrounding counties were as fol
lows;
Butts county voted 569 for and 67
| against with 89 percent favoring the
! new' plan.
Henry favored the pain 89 per
cent. The vote was 1,144 for ana
147 against.
Jasper County went 581 w 107 in
favor of the new program, a total
of 84 percent.
Rockdale favored the program by
a vote of 545 to 87. 86 percent- for
the new plan.
Walton voted 799 to 221 for tne
program, 78 percent.
Morgan, 1,101 for and 46 against,
94 percent for the plan,
“Now' that the quotas have been
approved for both cotton and flue
cured tobacco ” Frank C. Ward, ad
ministrative oficer in charge of the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration program said, “all Georgia
farmers who are planning to plant
these crops should see their county
committees or county agents at once
in order that they may receive their
fair share of tile cotton acrceage and
tobacco poundage to be allotted.
‘‘The quotas simply mean * that
farmers who have been cooperating
in the government programs are de
termined to bring the non-coopera
tors Into line. They are tired of
carrying non-cooperators along year
after year. There will be no penal
ties of anv kind on cooperating farm
ers who do not overplant their cot
ton acreage and who do not sell
more than their alloted poundage
of tobacco.”
The Covington News
WISHES YOU
A Happy Birthday!
March 19
BARBARA HARRIS
BOBBY REAGAN
MYRT1S SUMMEROUS
. LOIS ELLEN CURTIS
March 20
HENRY ANDERSON, JR.
STEWART THOMPSON
A. J. KING, SR.
MRS. PRESTON JOHNSqp
MRS. OBIE PARKER
SARA DAWKINS
March 22
MRS. WILEY ALGOOD
FELTON ELLINGTON
KATHRYN POPE
MARY TRAINER
MARCH 24
ZACKERY JOHNSON
EMILY BERRY