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he was going to let me
h the Press
him t0 Athens to
ve tit|ite all those
where I can see
I f pl!oW who also write a
l good column . . I’ll sit at
tt ft, Dudley
f of Bill Biffem,
, I*®’ J Mildred Seydell, Olin Miller
■on Collier and other noted
■lists and dream of the day
in. up and
en|I can q sweepin
■ broom away . . I've still
■ ra bbit loot Bill Biffem gave
id I re me nber how Paul Sey-
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leased m< about those gar
lie grew ( ?» in his hot house
II hear that inimitable brogue
■k Sutlive and see Jerry
ng over a coffee cup early
m.i in the morning, after
evervbody to be sure and
time John paschall's low
ous voice will greet me and
Woodward s sweet smile will
lo’.c snine out in all its glory
br cause they are kind
acious to little boys like me
as the grown ups . . . "Bach
tiler Roy McGinty will let
Ip him carry his fan mail and
Morris will give me a pass
railroad . I’ll tell you j
• s lots of fun to attend these
Wednesday
vp were guests at a splendid
given by the University of
a in Memorial Hall . . The
the pret-y girls in the Home
•me class sen rd us a delicious
Don’t know why they
dessert, ’cause th°y were
rough anyway . . That old
iorse of the U. S Senate.
i, Clark, spoke gently to us.
ie could see that, he could
hi mane and roar when he
led Today. Thursday, we
hear M. S. Rukeyser, the
economic commentator for
east papers whose column I
k daily in the Atlanta Geor
Then there will be a
(on given by the Atlanta
lan at which that prince of
fellows. Herbert Porter, will
sid This afternoon we will
h celebrated typographer.
m MeMurtrie, who designs
)ft Ludlow Typograph of Co the
■ago . He is one
i finest typographers . To
there is nothing scheduled,
the
kabiij John Pasehail presiding, or
Friday night
be a treat in store for
Evening Press will be
ost *,t a dinner . . . This dinner is
hvay full of thrills and awaited
itb icl! anticipation . . . After
er we will attend the an- N
MB Military Ball, given by the
lilitin units of the University of
This is the high light
| f|$ eason for Georgia girls and
I always have a good time
the old bo vs of the Press ;
y% to k'op out of the way of
tese our asters * even the Boss
ies ake a wicked foot at this
m ® but he can't take it with
tose V0' fellows Saturday
. . .
ft p H. Gallup, the man who
m advance how all elections
11 ■ l* will speak to us and we
1 : ar from Ralph McGill
ter oich we will be the lunch
of the Atlanta Consti
tio ■ v < : b Clark Howell, \yho is
H ’ on of as plendid sire, pre
Sir Just can’t help missing
nlc though with that
sc winkle in his eye
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has been one of our
to igh and it is always
1 1 hi* warm hand clasp
to borrow the boss’
nd turn the table on that
| oi photographers. Ralph
T lave a warm spot in my
ist for im cause he likes to
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R re at swim we had wdth
h Williams at Carroll
other photo boys are
f. t I have
just known
longer period of time
q n’t get my job as a
m liable fo try’ to b”
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Austrian Jew Will
Preach At Porterdale
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To Preach Sunday
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Rev. Jacob Gartenhaus,
Christianized Austrian Jew.
who will preach Sunday at
Porterdale Baptist church,
He will discuss conditions in
Gemranv and other foreign
countries.
Negroes Bitten
By Mad Dog
Physicians Warn Public of
Danger If Not
Treated.
Ora Lee Jackson and LeRoy Gay,
both colored, w'ere being given
treatment today for rabies follow
ing a report from the State Health
Department that a dog that had
bitten (hem was suffering Irom the
disease.
Local physicians requested the
News to warn all persons who might
have been bitten by the dog to no
tify their own physician at once
Warning was also issued by officials
advising that all dogs in the area
of the city should be confined for
a period . , of , three , months.
According j. to , reports, , the , dog , was „
seen in many parts of East Coving
ton during the morning and a num
ber of dogs were bitten. The two
negroes are the only persons thus
far having reported to physicians
that they had been bitten.
The report from the State Health
Department follows:
“The dog s head submitted to the
laboratory on February 21. 1939.
shows positive evidence of rabies.
All persons bitten or exposed to this
animal should communicate at once
with your physician All animals
should be confined for three
months.”
Press Institute
Repins at Athens
Editors of Georgia Attend
Annual Meeting
at Athens,
Fred D. Moon, picture editor of
The Atlanta Journal, and George
Burt, executive editor of the Macon
Telegraph and News and editor ot
the News, will be the principal
-peaktrs at a round-table on news
photography at the Georgia Press
Institute at the Henry W Grady
School of Journalism, the Univer
sity of Geqrgia this afternoon.
Other participants in this session
will be Milton Hardy, Gainesville
News; Otis Brumby, Cobb County
Times. Marittta; C. M. Methvin,
Times-Journal. Eastman; Harry B
Jennings, Union-Recorder, Mil
ledgeville, and Milton Fleetwood.
Tribune-News. Cartersville.
The institute opened Wednesday
with a dinner and an address by
Senator Bennett Champ Clark.
This morning at 10:30 o'clock. M
S. Rukseyer, International News
Service financial writer, will speak
as a guest of the Atlanta Georgian
Friday at the same hour. Ham
Fisher, creator of the celebrated
comic strip character, Joe Palooka
will speak. He will be the guest of
The Atlanta Journal Saturday s
main speaker will be George Gallup,
director of the American Institute
of Public Opinion, a guest of the
Atlanta Constitution.
Round table sessions and social
„..„ n( , W jn b „ interspersed through
lout the three days of the meeting.
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864
The Covington Star, Est 1874
Will Preach at Mission Rally
at The First Taptist
Church.
REV. GARTENHAUS TO
DISCUSS SITUATION
THROUGH GERMANY
Great Christian Work Done
By This Well Known
Preacher.
God is using Hitler today as he
used Pharoah in the past to weld
His scattered Jewish people into one
nation again, believes the Rev
Jacob Gartenhaus, of Atlanta.
Christianized Austrian Jew, who
speaks Tuesday, February 28, a r
Porterdale at a mission rally in the
Baptist church.
“The first time the Jewish people
went to Palestine from Egypt they
gave the world the Old Testament.”
he said. "The second time when
they went there from the Babylon
ish captivity they gave it the New
Testament. Who knows what this
third exodus to Palestine may bring
forth?”
Mr. Gartenhaus believes that Pal- j
estine will eventually become the j
Jewish homeland, where his nation |
may once again consolidate.
He sighs and shakes his head over
the German annexation of Austria.
"My fellow Austrians are not free
to express themselves.” he said, “or
they could have never consented.”
Mr. Gartenhaus is field secretary
of the Home Mission Board of the
Fouthern Baptist Convention, and is
author of several books, among
them. “The Ten Lost Tribes,’’ which
is his latest, “The Rebirth of a
Nation." “Zionism in History *nd
Prophecy" and "The Jew and Je
sts.”
From background of seventeen
years of Jewish evangelization the
speaker will deliver his message. He
will tell of the work he is doing as
a representative of Southern Bap
list Home Missions.
Born of wealthy Jewish parents
Austria, Mr. Gartenhaus came to
this 1,1 country J in ... his youth seeking .
alth Instead of f “? n * ,
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tune - he w, *. c ° n ' erte r ° ns lan
^ and studled ministry . at
Mood >' Bib,e InstlU f’ Chlcf, f°
Southern Baptist Theological Senu- o
nary, Louisville.
Mr - Gartenhaus is one of 350
missionaries and workers of the
Baptist agency who are doing mis
sion work in cities, among the for
eigners, French, Italians, Mexicans.
Indians, Negroes, and in Cuba and
Panama.
According to the report of the
Board, these workers baptized 2.363
converts last year, established 11
new churches and 69 preaching sta
tions, and distributed 34.530 Bibles
and portions of the scripture, and
767.219 tracts.
Baptists of the South gave in
creased offerings to Home Missions
last year totaling $508,454 67, an in
crease of $64,999.40 over the prev
ious year. During the year 23 new
missionaries were appointed.
The Board has only one mission
; arv. Mr. Gartenhaus. to the Jews
who number 500.000. Other mis
! sionaries include 20 to 650.000
; French-speaking Americans; 13 to
300.000 Spanish-speaking Ameri-
1 cans; 10 to 600.000 Italians; 3 to
| 7,000 Chinese; 8 to the 150,000 peo
ple in the Canal Zone and Panama;
28 to the 11.000.000 Negroes; 66 to
200,000 Indians; 80 to 800.000 Mex-
1 leans; and 130 among various other
j groups. "Unchurched
Taking the entire
group of 46.000.000 people in the
Southern states. Central America.
and Cuba, the Home Mission Board
has on an average only one mis
sionarv to 130.000 people. The pres
ant mission force is over twice the
number the Home Mission Board
had five years ago.
4 meri°an T,rgion
To Hold Special
Meeting Thursday
A special call meeting of the New
ton County Past 32 of the American
Legiou will be held Thursday night,
February 23rd. at the Masonic Hall
All members are especially urged to
attend as trustees will be elected
and plans will bn formed for the
new Legion Home. The announce
ment was made by Guy Rogers. Ad
; jutant.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939.
Student Safety Patrol Organized in Covington Schools
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The Covington School officials have completed plans for the organization of a
student safety patrol in connection with the State of Georgia Department of Public
Safety. The students pictured above have been named to serve through 1939 as a
means of protecting the lives of children. (Left to right, front row), Charles Smith,
Robert Pittman, Douglas Blankenship, Bill Heard Smith, Lavern Cowan, Lamar Hicks,
Lester Pope; second row, Billy Porter, W. K. Lunsford, Edward Smith. Wallace Moore.
Billy Biggers, Harry Faulkner, Leo Loyd, Fred McCord and Cleon Wiley. Ne " s rho, ° JR *
FHA Launches
New Building
Program in Area
Meeting To Be Held in This
City on Thursday,
March 2.
Several representatives of the
Federal Housing Administration
from the Insuring office, lo
cated in Atlanta, will visit Coving
ton. on Thursday, March 2. for the
purpose of launching the new’ FHA
program under the recent amend
ments to the National Housing Act.
aceor^mg to the chairman of the
Better Housing Committee.
A special conference of all archi
tect', contractors, realtors, lumber
dealers, representatives of financial
institutions, newspapers and utili
^ h>g been scheduled for 7:30 p
m„ E. S. T, at the Courthouse, Cov
ington, Ga.
The meeting will be confined to
discussion of local activities cover
ing an educational program to be
launched here under the New
Amendments.
Mr. R. E. Mat.heson, state direc
tor; Mr. J. G. Hardy, Jr., staf val
uator. and Mr. Haynes McFadden.
Jr, production manager, will be
present at the meeting. ' vering
preparation of applications, finan
c al arrangements and local activi
ties.
Ministers Elect
Shirah President
Member* of Association to
Be Guests of Rev. H. B.
Trimble.
The Ministerial Association of
Emory-at-Oxford was officially or
ganized last week with the elec
t.ion of these officers: Jason Shirah.
of Bvromville. president; Alvis
Waite, Brunswick, vice-president,
and Lamar Wainwright., of Folks
ton. secretary and treasurer.
Other members of this organiza
tion are Reid Sessions, Hamby Bar
ton. Randolph Cook, Oscar Black
well. Luther Harrell and Sorrow
Reverend Charles Forrester and
Proefssor E. J. Brown are co -
advisors.
Friday night the members of this
local association will be the guests
! of Rev. H. B. Trimble. Dean of the
| School of Theology, on the campus
of Emory University, in Atlanta.
j fyoraf Ministers
Visit Homes in City
Rev. H. C. Emory Rnd Dr. Sidney
Gates, local Methodist and Presby
rerun minister, respectively, report
favorable results from their city
wide pastoral visitations. These min
Men are visiting every -home m
Covington in the interests of the
Kingdom of God. People are being
city have services every Sunday to
which all persons are cordially in
vited. During the next week all the
homes on Floyd Street will be vis
jted. It is estimated that at least
two more months will bp required
tor the completion of these pastors’
calls.
G. S. C. W. Choir
To Appear Here
Sunday afternoon the Covington
Music club will present a program
at the Methodist Church. The club
has arranged for the G. S. C. W
choir, of Milledgeville, to appear
The choir, which is well known
throughout the state, is directed by
Professor Max Noah.
This group of entertainers is in
demand, and immediately following
their performance here, they go to
another Reading Georgia town for
an entertainment.
The choir appeared here two years
ago and everyone was pleased with
their brand of entertainment. There
will be a free wdll offering taken.
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Newton County
Ministers Meet
To Hold Association Meeting
at First Methodist
Church.
The Newton County Ministerial
Association will hold its regular
monthly meeting on Thursday,
March 2nd. at the First Methodist
Church. The time is 7:30 p - M
In addition to all Newton County
pastors, the church officers have
been, invited, including stewards
elders and deacons.
Rev. H. Clay Emory, the hast pas
tor. will preside and make the de
votional talk. Plans are being made
for the launching of a county-wide
evangelistic program and matters
relating to this project will be dis
cussed.
The feature of this meeting wih
be the presence of the Lakewood
Corps Salvation Army Band, of At
lanta. The band is composed of 15
[ members, most of whom are under
I j 18 years organization of age. Th will I splendid be under mu- the
sical
i direction of Herbert Robins The
| program will be in charge of Capt
R R Massolis. A sp* cia m?.v f
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to Christian mmisteis an a
will be brought by Capt. H. E. Rob
ins, well-known speaker
Kiwanians Hold
Reguar Meeting
C. C. King Makes Forceful
I Talk on Subject of
Americanism.
The Covington Kiwanis Club held
its regular noon meeting at the De
laney Hotel Thursday with Presi
dent Nat Turner presiding and Prof
V. Y. C. Eady leading the singing
with Miss Fletcher Lou Lunsford at
the piano
The attendance was 90.5 per cent
with Dr Baxley Uncle Wick, Jack
j Porter and Ike’missing from the
: fold.
| P. W. Pratt was received as a nev
member and was presented With a
button and inducted as a member
j by Prof. Hawkins. Leo Masten wa -
presented a P°^> b > ^ d '
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j teresting talk on ‘Americanism.
citing from sect tions of the Con' 1
tution His talk was hearty ap
plauded
i Mr. Feagle and L. M. Shaggott. o.
Athens, were welcome visitors and
i were introduced by Dr. Greene.
Great Building And
Remodeling Program
Underway In City
Notices to All
Farmers in This
County Mailed
Agricultural Agent Discusses
Farm Program in This
Area.
Notires to all farms in the county
have gone out to date indicating the
cotton acreage allotment, peanuts
and general soil depleting. The
cotton acreage is the permitted
acreage for 1939 under the 1939 farm
program, the same is true of the
peanut allotment. The general de
pleting acreage allotment is the
totr' acreage for the farm that may
be planted to general soil depleting
crops such as corn, wheat, oats,
sorghum and other general crops
City of Oxford
Weekly Clinic
Gets Underway
Wasserman Test to Be Given
For Diagnosis of
Syphillis.
A regular weekly clinic for the
diagnosis and treatment of sypnil
lis was begun in Oxofrd Wednes
day afternoon under the supervis
ion of Dr. Clarence Palmer, the
city physician.
Several members of the city
council weie me ur.it to mice ul
eest as evmencje of their sympathy
with this much neeued ana pro
gressive movement now being spoil
sored by the town of Oxford. Many
others, both white and colored,
| were .quick in responding.
Each citizen of Oxfoid has re
ceived a letter from Mayor Carlton
this week urging tne importance ox
community interest ana co-opeia
tion in this project. It is learneu
xrom this letter that the town will
pay the expense of blood tests and
treatment tor those who are on
relief or who have no job or source
of income. Employed persons wih
be required to pay for costs of the
treatment, which will be nominal
Those beginning treatment will be
expected to continue as long as
deemed necessary.
The clinic will meet in the Coun
cil Room at Oxford from one to two
oclock each Wednesday. Treat
| ments will begin after the first two
[ clinics.
The closing paragraph of the
Ma Yor s letter i s quoted below that
you may fully realize the sincerity
of the project.
"We W’ant to do our best to rid
our community of this great enemy
of health. To this end we hope
that as many of you as possibly can.
both -white and colored, will avail
themselves of this opportunity oi
checking up on themselves.”
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Garden Club Slioir
Date to Be Changed
The Covington Garden Club Gar
den Show, announced in the last
issue of the Covington News, will no:
be held as scheduled. The time of
ihe garden school will be announced
at a later date when conditions are
l more suitable.
J. B. High ¥Aected
President Debating
Club at Oxford
j I J. B. High, of Bunnell. Fla., was
| I elected president Club of at Emory-at-Ox- its regular
ford Debating
j weekly meeting this week. Jason
shirah was selected to serve a-'
secretary and treasurer.
There were about fifteen regular
member* of this club that is super
vised by Prof. Charles Lester.
j Shot to
Jim W bite
Death Here Smuimj
Jim White, well known Covington
negro, was shot to death at his home
Sunday night. A negro woman giv
ing her namt a' Cora Williams, was
arrested and is being held without
bond until the next session of the
Graud Jury.
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rH O PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
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INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5c SINGLE COPY
Unofficial Report on New
Addition to Delaney
Hotel.
REMODELING OF W.
COHEN CO., STOCKS,
AND OTHERS BEGINS
New Homes Recently Built
With More Now Under
Construction.
Numerous improvements are un
derway in the business and resi
dential sections of Covington as
well as throughout the rural area
of the county.
Plans are now being made by of
ficials of the Delaney Hotel to en
large . thc present building to take
care of the steadily increasing num
ber of guests. The present building
j is being remodeled and repainted
and will be one of the.
that ire usually planted on a farm.
If this acreage is exceeded on a
farm there will be a deduction from
the 1939 payments of $8.(10 per acre
for each excess acre.
We see some farmers who have
seeder a large acreage of oats and
in some cases the oat acreage is
about equal to the general soil de
P letin * acre ^ e * et to the farm.
Where this is the case the farm ts
almost sure to get a severe penalty
for 1939* if a normal corn acreage is
planted.
All of this is brought about due
to the fact that we are Increasing
our feed crop acreage by planting
the acres taken from cotton to feed
crops. The western farmer who
grows w'heat, corn, oats and other
feed crops a s a cash crop objects to
our growing these crops on acres
the government pays us to take out
of coUon probably they are right,
j but jt wems funny to p^ai^e *
sectj£)n that ha _«. ahvays bought feed
for trying to produce it. It is still
very improbable that a farmer who
produces feed crops for his own use
and j 0 p S no t sell the crop nor the
livestock produced on this increased
feed will be penalized.
We understand the Snapping
Shoals Electric Membership Corpo
ration is planning an exhibit of elec
meal fixtures. This exhibit will be
made in each rural community and ;
will be mounted on a large trailer
so that it may be moved to various
communities without very much
time or expense. An arrangement
has been worked out with the Geor
gia Power Company whereby they
will co-operate by lending the serv
ices of their technicians in explain
ing the workings of the equipment
and the power consumption. This
will not be a sales promotion but is
an educational program to show
the membership of the Cooperative
the proper installation and use of
electrical equipment.
Some farmers in the county are
already topdressing their grain with
nitrate and some few are seeding
their Lespedeza. There is only one
precaution to seeding Lespedeza at
this time—this crop is easily killed
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S. S. Association
Holds Meeting
Seventy Attend Sunday
School at Macedonia
Baptist Church.
The Southern Section of the
Stone Mountain Sunday School As
sociation held its regular monthly
meeting at the Macedonia Baptist
Church Sunday afternoon with the
president. Belmont Dennis, presid
i mg
Four churches were represented
I with a total number of seventy
present. The attendance banner
was awarded the Macedonia Sun
day School, with 30 present. The
nextt 13 and highest First Baptut Church J ^
ington with 12 present
The devotkma wasled by H.
; mont Hawkins" Dennis. a “ e " wh ^
and Mr. McDonald It
\ “ wa s decided o7,„, to hold the next meet
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with High Point Sunday School on
the third Sunday in April.
The March meeting will be a
rombired meeting of the North and
South seclions of the Association at
the First Baptist Church in Cov
Ington.
NUMBER 8
m0iSt modem and most attractive
hotels in this section when com
pleted. Plans for the addition hava
not yet been completed and hotel
officials stated that full detail*
WO uld be released as soon as poM
ible. Unofficial reports are that
fourteen additional rooms would b«
added to the new annex.
The remodeling of W. Cohen
Company is nearing completion de
spite the continued inclement wea
rher. This building, which is lo
cated on the Southwest corner of
the square, will be one of the most
beautifjsl buildings in Covington
when completed. The Cohens store
has an attractive black front cf
the new colored plate glass with
white letters. The remainder of the
building, which is two storie* high.
I has been painted solid white. Other
store buildings owned by the Cohen
Company have *lso been remodeled,
stocks Hom-Ond Building next
to the Courthouse is being enlarged
and remodeled. Approximately
twenty-five feet is being added to
the rear of the present building,
The present large basement will also
be extended in order to care lor
the much needed storage space of
the store. The Stocks Hom-Ond
company has two stores in Coving
ton. One a food market and the
other a feed stork,
ypp nfW *50.000 school gymnasium
js we u underway and promises t*
bp ore o{ the most attractive build
jng ^ of Covington. The gymnasium
wiU ^ modern in every respect and
wjll be u ,sed by the school for chap
e j exerc jses. all sport events and for
s hows or features. Actual construc
t j on began on January 5 and will
pro bab)y be completed before school
opens next fall.
Covington s gymnasium is located
on the site of the old gymnasium
and will contain several class rooms
for lower grades. Other rooms will
be provided for dressing rooms,
showers and rest rooms. The pres
ent school building will be altered
lo tflke care ot ne w courses that
wdl be 0 ff PrM i.
Many home' in Covington hsv*
been completed and several *re still
under construction. Plans *re be
ing; drawn by a number of local peo
pic who also expect to build within
the near future. Homes recently
completed are ■Vera Hooten. S. M.
Hay, V. G. Downs, Mrs. Marcelle,
wood residence on Church Street.
James Johnson, two residences near
school by E. M Piper, Dan Patrick,
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Ramsey. Jr„
ee residences by P. W. Pratt. Mr.
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p srne n and numerous others,
Residences now under construc
tj on are as follows: Apartment in
North Covington at old Echols home
_ residence ,,
bv M E. E. Callaway: on
r.
Conyers street by Mrs. Newton
p e lker and residence on Floyd Street
j by Mr. P. W. Pratt. There are hun
drw j s 0 f improvements being made
throughout the county, which make*
any listing of them impossible.
QuarterlV /„ CprPnCP ( OUt ereUCf
A • GaitherS IfOU ChUVCk
.The first Quarterly Conference
for the Newton circuit will be held
a t Gaithers church, next Saturday,
**.
Rev. T. M. Sullivan, . the piesiding
elder, will preach at 11 o'clock, and
conduct the conference in the af
ternoon.
All ofiicials of the charge are r«
quested to be present with their re
ports.