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t happonort! 1
if worst has
[Julia Gibson fpr the life of
uppernong vine in m>
, c declared she was
H She
. she net’*
cut it down cait-e
grape off of it I nevei
grape ritie would be
that past two years
hut for the
id that the school chillun
all the grapes nnd you get
but not the worst has
and Mamma s you
y0 chillun Irom under
w i near it
i don't dare go
there's a den of Coach
Uc a? i° n ^ ^ I am under
L S at (he root
bed is right
and they just stay at’,
„ ne of the
and are the color
the ground and you can't
n them
L un'il you are on . .
L SA yt i ain’t been near
I just saw one SMALL
fOUl feat long they killed
|U! some size to
>v say there is
for she has not been
rnma good
Mr Wheichell i« a
,
Sunder and he s been snoop
there with his she
k that bake Mamma knows
beicheil.. he gets his snakes
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she keeps her family in when
with his gun ... If he
lout (hink I'll call
L them out I
fe Department.. How about
Ls? L» Can't you soak ura out? with
who I had dinner
Y t night! Your humble of
Why His Excellency, the
tor of Georgia . . . and Bo;
v. ran Ed eat Fried Chicken
It at the FFA Camp on Jack
ike Governor Rivers spoke to
Future Forestry Men of tns
And honestly, folks, Ed
i?df me want to get out and
methtng about Conservation
>orsi» Soil and Reforestation;
K fees in his vision the Un
[product . . . the Georgia we
: g,ve to the South if all Georg
would .tom m this wonderful
[in. Don't fuss no more about
PLEASE! Cause I saw
of that tax money was being
when those boys come out
Lol L and are Georgia Citizen
going to -ee a finer Georgia!
betting on ihe last one of Uni
and have you seen that FFA
k out there? Have you be*n
[the plant Have you seen
. . .
wonderful hospital building
make it your business to -see
one n f the States Projects for
s and educating our youth
I It your duty as a taxpayer to
out there and see what's go- ;
[on! Now. Ed might, but not I agree don't
|ve an old Office Boy,
in Sales tax . . . unless it's
[the |iited Mississippi tax . . . and that
they have a sales tax
. . .
I certain percent on luxuries arid
t one on necessities of a smaller
nmt. . . . Now, if Georgia had
I if we HAVE TO . . . LET it be
Ifissippi's Tax with the small tax
[necessities [ely of life left off . . ■
to goorinpss you don't want
ce folks who have to save every
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ny for food to have to pay a tax
,N0 NO. NO! But things that
j not absolutely necessities can
(defined and put a sales tax on
it!
pi believe me . . . Mr. Dan Wad
l of the State. Forestry Depart
pt! won my heart! I had gloried
[the fact that it had rained ami
1 Rivers would see the condition
~ . ,,
(ni hf almost went in a ditch .
if and when we get “ funds he is
t goino ,o ( 0vwt ‘ in Coving*on
4 Newton County You've heard
I*’ orkin song . . I've Got Mv Captain
for Me now . . . Well can
'll imagine the Governor'* surprt -
Dinner when we gathered wita
out a hundred boys for a feast
tried chicken and all the fixins
he lifted a huge platter of fried
irken and passed it. to me aw!
. . .
1 1 . No, Sir I want the
governor ...
to serve me!’’ He did, giv
! S me a 2 teat big gizzard anj
rad of chicken but Low! That
. . .
L‘ ! no * ’end of it. for I said,
P" fh VPl ' plates, bo.vs. vou migitl
have the opportunity of having
P [ Governor serve you again
. . .
n honor guest at dinner serving
p meal , ■ • well I think he liked
f for he saveti most of the gizzards
F himselt . But Gosh! That Ms.
.
^ -V Maddox is doing the swelles’
at) at the ramp L've ever seen
.
« ran ; V°u imagine every chicken
ith abom ux gizzards I know
sch ...
one had that many for Go\
r ,ln ’ Riv «s ate six and I had font
Bllf) we ii T wen t tell you how many
Lovd atp they say gizzards
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nake you Pretty .so if Abe Loyd. Ed
Elvers a| 'd Hie Office Boy a in *
[Pretty in a fp W’ days you need never!
to betiei p m signs
m fourteen again!
one miles of us we
of the most beautiful in
Gp ortri a spots
in ,nci Tm afraid half of u
Cn '"ington don't realize
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Volume 75
| RIVERS SPEAKS As^FA CAMP
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Covington, Porterdale Schools Open Sept 14th
County Officals Will
Meet Next Thursday
To Discuss Problems
Mr. Ficquett, County School
Superintendent, Awaits
Board Meeting.
COVINGTON SCHOOLS
WILL CONTINUE AS
LONG AS POSSIBLE
The Porterdale Schools Will
Also Open at Regular
Time.
Covington sr.d Ponerdale School
will open at the u«ual time. Septem
ber 4th. according to officials of the
two schools who made the anounce
ment following meeting of their
boards.
The Newton County schools situa
tion is still a mystery and win re
main so until final decision is made
Tuesday by the county board. Sup
erintendent E L. Ficquett stated
that nothing definite could be giv
en until after this meeting.
In tile Covington school faculty
only one change will be made, Mi
C. E. Hawkins, Superintendent, said
Miss Frances Story, of Athens, will
be the new Home Economics teach
er and will be in full charge of the
modpil^ department which has just
been contpfeted. Mbs Story is a
graduate of the University of
gia and has had four years exper
ience in this work at Buford Sev
eral new subjects will be introduced
this year. These subjects are typing
bookkeeping shorthand training.
At Portetdale- there has been one
change in the faculty according
Mr. H. W. Pittman, assistant to the
president, H. S. Brumbaugh, form
erly superintendent at Newborn, will
serve as teacher in the high school
division and athletic director. De
tails for the opening of the new ac
credited high school were not avaii
able.
State School Superintendent
D. Collins will be the
speaker at opening exercises in Cov
ington. County Superintendent E. L
Ficquett will also speak. These
e> . ercises 0 f the year will be held
Covington Gymnasium
a full program arranged.
Some difficulty has arisen in
state due to the fact that 57
schools have been taken off the
credited list for abbretiated
last year. The State Board of
cation has asked fora ruling by
Attorney Gene. il Ellis Arnall on
0f thP b0ard ,0 M UP
accrediting commission.
The board declined to take any
action on the request of 30
high school superintendents
: principals that the schools be
.stored to (he list,
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In the above picture is
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E. D. Rivers, who spoke
afternoon at the Jackson
FFA camp, and his little
j daughter. N cod less to say,
thinks the other the greatest
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864
I’he Covington Star. Est 1814
SCENT. IF
Farmer* Must Plan Purchase
Of Winter Legume
Seed.
The season of the year is here
when farmers must make their
plans for purchasing winter legume
seed. The AAA program has been so
designed that farmers may purchase
seed through assignment of the class
2 payments due them on the 1939
program. Already a contract has
been let for purchasing 40 000
pounds of Austrian Winter Peas
this county. We will advise you as
*oon as we are able to regarding the
price. In the past quite a few farm
*rs have failed to earn this class 2
payment due to their inability to
purchase seed. This need no longer
be true as you can get the seed by
this assignment at good prices,
One farmer in the county told
ne had observed considerable
weevil activity in his cotton
the recent rains. Probably it will
begin opening and we will be able
to harvest (he present crop of bolls
without very severe damage.
Be sure to plantodo
Be sure to plan to do some pas
ture work this fall. We would sug
gest a small acreage well prepared
and seedpd liberally with adapter,
pasture grasses. Be^sure to purchase
seed ihat will perpetuate them
selves on the soil. So often a farmer
decides to improve his pasture and
then loses his effort by buying the
wrong kind of seed As an examp
crimson clover makes excellent
grazing the year It is sown but w.'L
not perpetuate itself under pasture
conditions a better clover for pa ; -
Hires would be white dutch or bet
hnt if does not remain A better
non . legume grass would be dallis or
orchar(J e , a . 5f as they win remain
thp |an(1 inde fjniteiy.
Qn(> o{ (h(> cheapest plants wr
fenow for eofnmon pa .s, ur e is vetch.
It mflkes Pxcf! , Pnt grazing and wL
fhp , and from now on
S^il quantities of ni
trogen m the and thus acts „
fertilizer to the bermuda grass. I
your pas( ure is poor and has a sod
of ber muda we would certainly rec
ommend some vetch be put in the
pasture mixture. If you ar: interest
-d in pasture work call by and talk
your situation over with us prob
biy we can tell you o' experience
of other farmers we have talked with
and give you some information tha
would prov. of value to you.
This week we atienfrd a meeting
where the tenant purchase plan was
discussed. It seems that the plan is
built to finance deserving tenant
croppers and wage hands already ot
not be made . , to
the farm. Loans will
non farmers, Loans will not
made to farmers who already own
as much as three acres of ground
Lawton Skinner
Named Scoutmaster
Lawton Skinner was named local
Scoutmaster to succeed Bill
who is out of the city, at a meeting
of the American Legion Boy Scout
committee Wednesday night,
A committee of Moody Summers
Commander of the local past. Frank
Meadors, chairman of the
committee. G W. Rogers and W. G
Hays were at the Wednesday night
meeting.
Sidney Carpenter, assistant
executive of the Central Georg.a
Council atetnded the meeting.
All boys of Troop No 67 at? rc
quested to attend the meet rag
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
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Governor Rivers, guest speaker, Tuesday afternoon at the FFA Camp at Jackson Lake,
a table at supper with other speakers and guests. Left to right: Governor Rivers; Belmont
editor of the Covington News: D. J. Weddei). state forester: and M. D. Mobley, division director
vocational education. Other picture will appear in the next issue of the News,
Pupils of R. J.
Guinn to Meet
j On Wednesday
Program Will “3 Begin _ at 10:30
O’clock at Woman’s
Club.
Plans have been completed for
the reunion next Wednesday,
23rd inst.. of the living pupils and
their families of the school taught
at Old Salem 50 years ago.
The program will begin at 10:30
A. M with the assembling of the
old pupils in the Salem Woman'.
Club Building located where the old
® chool building stood Robert J
Guinn, the teacher of the school of
1889 and 1890. will preside.
At 11:00 o'clock the whole com
pany, the old pupils and their fam
ilies. will assemble in the stand
*Mte Camp Ground, where there
be music and addresses by Hon.
Martin, of Covington, representing
the old pupils. Mrs. Waiter Cowan
will speak, representing the Salem
Woman’s Club, who are sponsoring
the reunion.
I At the noon hour a basket dinner
will be served.
The aft€ rnoon will be devoted to
visitation among the old pupils and
the children and young people wii.
participate in games and ath5eUC ;
sports.
A , a rge crowd and a general good:
(i me is expected. Many old friend
shlp , will be lenewed and many new|
one wiu be made by the younget
mem bers of the group.
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Friends of Dr. W. D. Travis will
be glad to learn that he is recover- j
ing from his recent major opera-,
and ig repor ^rt doing nicely. A.
number of Covin^Fon bo.vs were giv- '
en blood tests to find if their blood
matched Dr. Travis' should he need
,
j transfusion, but doctors stated j
a transfusion j
! Wednesday that a
would not be necessary.
Representative A.
j Sid Camp Repins
Service in Congress
Representative A. Sidney Camp.
recently elected to the United State*
Congress from the Fourth District
has been sworn into office and
served the closing day of the first
session of the 76th Congress. Rep
resentative ramn camp ha , been assigned!
mem cts up ^ knowing
to Buii(Jing< and
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Grounds ronunmees^ ^ Elections and
[Eva-ion of the law.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939
Interesting Program Will Be
Held at First Presbyterian Church
One of Europe’s Best Known
Singing Groups To
Be Here.
At the Covington Presbyterian
| Church on Friday night, August 18
at 8.00 o’clock one of the mast
unique programs in the history of
j Covington will be presented. Rev.
William Fetter and Mrs. Fetter,
Wlth , heir 12 children DanieL Tim
othy, Lydia, Paul. John. Pnilip Bet
ty. Andrew, David, Peter, Jackv and
Joseph, will appear at a. concert
Russia nmusic, vocal and instiu
mental. A glance at the program
announced for Friday night revea s
a variety of religious and classical
numbers including the Russian Vo.
Song. 'Ey U Chnyem, Richard
Wagner s “The Pilgrims' Chorus
from Tannhauser. the Czech Song |
Bethlehem, “I Ain't a Gonna
Grieve M >’ Lorci An - V Mote, by Ot-,
“tuiSJ of the Russian Church, Ge.
Son Sem nurse.y Wt. sonj Dm Mem L. te So Henkes*
ana many otner .v»etto...
The Fetter family comprises on"
ot Europe's best known singing.
groups and the orchestra, with .
year-old Jacky wielding the baton. 1
has evoked widespread appreciation
Each member of the family■ . *
” " unbars.
The Rainbow Oichestra of pRs Pas .
tor William Fetters 12 child! en -Sj
something so unique that it has
traded the attention and enthu-
iasm of multitudes in Samaria, Swp
den .Norway and Denmark as well
as in Switzerland. The history o.
these musical children and of their j
parents is as romantic as it is m-!
tcresting. Perhaps t. is the oMVi
family in the world of 12 mission
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Cart Sullivan Here
For Scouts Tonight
Car , Sn ilivan executive of the
Roy Scouts of Amer jca, and Sidney
Carpenter assistant Scout executive
of jhe Georgia council, will
be in Covington Thursday nigh*
and request the district committee
to meet at the Delaney hotel at 8
P. M.
All Scoutmasters of the district
are requested to come to the meet
ing at 8:45 P M . at the Delaney
hotel.
Clinic at School
Friday Morning
A clinic .will be held Friday morn
mg at 10:00 o'clock at the school
building for vaccination for small
pox This is a cquirement of the
Covington School system.
State Patrol
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AU | rs | LI rorlf CIV.IY
Traffic Laws of State
Be Enforced by The
Patrolmen.
Suspension of drivers' licenses
Georgia motorists who
break safety rules went into
Wednesday.
Warnings and ines have failed
impress "certain drivers” that
55-miie-an-hour speed limit on
highway and other traffic
must be oserved, declared Lon Sul
ij vfln commissioner of the Depart
ment of Public Safety, in ordering
highway patrolmen to clear
roads of “repeaters.”
Dnvers convicted of speeding
license for 30 days h<> anno , lnced .
Any £Ubse quem offense win bring
90-day suspension, and if the
ing still continues, the
license will be revoked altogether.
Driving while under the
of , iqtI0r wm continue to result in
manda , ory revocation of the
xhc Safety Act provides a minimum
suspension of six months.
°' her f*™* 101 f^ 01
on thP hcenses t0 of ‘^hbie offenders nota include:
i. Driving with no tail light or on
y one headlight. (If the driver car
ries an extra bu ib for such an em
er g Pncy , an exception will be made
2. Failure to dim lights or
lights properly focused,
3. Passing with insufficient clear
ance
4 Care)ess drlvin? such as
obgerye Mgna and signB i S .
parklng and faiUlr e to make prop»,
hand signals
5 Improper equipment,
overloaded vehicles, improper
defective brakes and absence of
view mirrors.
Latvian Musicians To Visit City
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Pictured above is the Fetter family who will present a special
religious program Friday night at the Covington Presbyterian church
Those picture above are Rev. William Fetter and Mrs. Fetter: 12
children. Daniel, Timothy. Lydia. Paul, John, Philip, Betty, Andrew,
Peter, Jacky and Joseph. i
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TH’" PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Sc SINGLE COPY
Stresses The Value of
Conservation In An
Address To The Boys
“TENT” AEIIHL
ill OPFN HUE
Rev. L. B. Harrell and Crew
of 14 Assistantse Will
Be In Charge.
Opening services of the “Old
Time ' tent revival will begin Sur.
day evening with all churches in
the city joining in sponsoring the
tw’o tveeks program
H. C. Emory, pastor of the Firs,
Methodist Church, announced Tues
day that the erection of the ten:
would begin Thursday and every
thing would be ready for the open
ing service Sunday. All chairmen
committees held last week are
quested to call meeting to complete
plans for their respective group
Th tent will be located at College
Avenue on grounds of the Covington
School. Boy Scouts of the city will
assist during the revival by handling
trafftc, doing errands and other
work.
Rev. L. B. Harrell, pastor of the
’ r ' irst Methodist Church, at Union
p oint wln d0 the pi . each i nf} . Mr.
Harrell has been engaged in direct
ing tent revivals for the past five
six years. He will be assisted by 14
trained workers who will direct the
music, singing and personal field
work.
Heads of various committees ir.
elude J. E. Phillips. N. S.
Belmont Dennis gnd Mrs. Tullie
Smith. Committees are composed of
R. O Arnold, J. I Alford. O W Por
ter. Fletcher Hill. W. C. MeOahee.
Dr. S. L. Waites, Sidney Gates,
George Cochran Malcolm Bruce.
Hugh King Tom Hay, S. J. Mor
cock. Geo. Stauffacher, John Wood
Frank Meadors. J. L. Skinner Mrs.
J. L. Elliott. Mis. J. B. Downs, Mrs
S. L. Waites. Mrs. E. G. Martin. M"‘
R M. Sea ley and Mrs. John Calla
way.
Bell and Fein
Buy “Mobley’s”
Mr. Mobley Turned Store
Over to Mr. Fein Last
Monday.
Beil and Fein, merchants fo*
many years throughout the South
and ea.-t. recently closed a deal witn
E. H. Mobley for the purchase of his
stoie and stock
! Mr. Mobley after more than 40
in the merchamite busine-
sold his store to devote more of his
time to farming interests in thf
county. He turned over the store to
, the new firm Monday morning and
I in, ° “Is new and different
ol business.
Bel! and Fein will be in full charge
of the store and this week offer
number of special value* to the
public through the columns of
'Covington News.
Mr. W. G. Wallace, District
Forester, Introduces
Governor.
MR. W. A. MADDOX
IN CHARGE OF THE
MODERN FFA CAMP
Crowd Enjoys Dinner Given
After Meeting by
Group.
The Governor of Georgia. Honor
able E. D. Rivers, was guest speak
er on Tuesday afternoon at four
o’clock at the Government's Vooa
Mona! Center for boys, at Jackson
Lake.
Gathered together tinder a huge
tent were ninety boys, from as many
counties in Georgia These bo.vs ara
being entertained here, and trained
for ten days in Forestry work. They
represent the best in their high
schools in forestry work. They were
selected because of the high graoe
'hey made in tests on forestry work, ■
Mr. W. A. Maddox, in charge of
this wonderful center, is doing a
marvelous work out there, and m
the years to come the youth of our
'and will be better trained for hav
ing had this wonderful contact.
; Seated on the platform were His
Excellency, The Governor of Geor,
: 8>a. Honorable Pat Campbell, Rep
resents five from Newton County.
Honorable M, D. Mobley, who is to
'P p «k on a program later in the
week, and Honorable Dan J. Wed
dell, of the State Forestry Depart
ment.
Mr. W, G. Wallace, District For
Irom Macon, presented Mr.
Uobi n. Mr. Weddell, and Belmont
Dennis, Editor of the Covington
News, Mr. Maddox presented other
invited guests as follows: Mr. Otis
Nixon. Col. C. C. King, Mr. E. L.
Ficquett, Mr. Abe Loyd, Mr. Pat
Campbell. Mrs. Belmont Dennis,
Mrs. W. A. Maddox Mr. Ike Robin
son. Mr. Simpson Aiken and Mr.
Hugh Aiken.
The meeting was opened with the
boys singing ’’Hello. Hello, Hello.
We are glad to meet you,” as toe
Governor entered, this under t.te
capable leadership of Mr. G. P. Don
aldson. better known as “Dr. Pete ”
Mr. Donaldson is connected with
the State College at Tifton, Georgia.
After a few- songs, the Governor
was presented and made a wonder
ful address, outlining the benefit*
derived from the Government s I
Camps and recreatienai centers for it
bovs. The '
Vocational work done in !
these centers, he stressed, will live
* n these boys and make the state a
better and liner place in which *o
b'e. He urged the boys to go home
and telt other boys of the wonderful i
opportunity they have had here.
These centers are costing the tax
P ajers mone .v. but they are well
wonh ,he m 5»y s P n t for Govrnor i
Rivers stressed the fact that this
administration, which was soon to
come *o a clo-e was trying to build
land and the man. In building
the land we are stressing Soil Con
servation and Reforestation. In
building the man the administra
tion is stressing education and
health
The fact was brought, ou tiiat
Georgia now owns more than 40,000
acres in Parks. That two-thirds of
the State of Georgia is in Forests, i
and that his admonition to the Uni
versity System has been to see tha;
they had an accredited Forestry
school. This dream of Governor /
Rivers has materialized in Georgia.
The boys in this camp are being
trained and when they come out of
College five years from now. they
will be young men who will help o
build a better and finer Georgia.
The Governor assured the boys that i
he was vitally interested tn each of
them as individuals and in seeing { i
them forward in this State-wide .
go I.
Fores try Program. He stated that h. V !
was solidly behind what they are j?
doing here and that he was not muk- j
mg any campaign speech, for hr
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