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jr unf r ;] \ services for Mrs C H
, ho died at the home of her j
jpc. at
ghtei Mrs. W H Budd, Jr., i
i ?s t Friday were held Sun-i
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aiternoon at 3 o'clock from the
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ome at Oxford. Rev. C. 8- Forester |
of the services and |
as in charge
[termeut was at Oxford cemetery.
go,, --ad made her home with her
Vh’fr flt Oxford for a number through- of
>aic- She was well known
■ tihe county and her many
lends mourn her passing.
- .survived by one daughter.
trs. H Bund. Jr Oxford; two
ns D H Cope and J. W Cope,
at,ale Miss-; one brother. Rev.
p H-rnon. Vicksburg. Miss
auffarhPi' and White Funeral
erne as in eharge The News cx
inds M-mpathy to the bereaved
tmily
1m Susie Ramsey
Teaching hi tin at nt W kf.u.u. (y C
Miss Susie „ Ramsey, .of f Newton i
®mnn. i now’ n « teaching in one of
1 niix! a ora ory SP hnnls ’ of
ps ' f r lu- n 1 ^
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, vnerience bv
the college because I
h'jit ' shc^is v and attitude toward
getting addition
training and experience in i
I trained supervisor. In addition I j
college credit received for
■erience tie course, she is getting this ex
without cost to her.
I '
llated Miss Ramsey is to be congrat
for availing herself of
Bis opportunity to better pre
herself to teach.
fress Institute to Week
Open Next
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■ The Georgia Press Association
■Iso will meet while the insttiute
5 in session.
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'If We Only Had
Insurance ...”
So many car owners say
that after a costly auto
mobile accident! Don’t
delay —it’s insurance cheaper to f
carry on your
car right now.
H.C. COOK I
Tire- f ornado-Automobile
insurance J
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CITY
^ p are proud of
our
Ask for them at
■'-vre. Just try
Customer. Fresh
SaIt Rising Bread,
Assortment Layer
1 asty Cookies,
* rench Pastry,
r ownies, Breaed,
p specialize in
The Covington Star, Est. 1874.
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864.
tomorrows
Sun
Tornado-stricken Albany, one
0 f t bp m ost beautiful cities in
Georgia, undoubtedly will need
and ask for and receive Federal
aid ., in . l econstructing A the build- ,
ings shatteied last week.
How different the picture to
day, when a disaster like this
occurs, from what it used to be,
before the Roosevelt administra
tion made the Federal Govern
ment an instrumentality for the
relief of human suffering and
disaster wherever and when
ever it occurs.
in the pre-Roosevelt days, a
city laid waste by a tornado was
rebuilt, if at all, by slow and
painful degrees. It had to rely
solely upon its own financial re
sources, plus whatever was con
tributed to its relief and rebuild
ing by popular subscription. In
the meantime there was untold
suffering otten the tornado
damage * was never repaired com-
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Immediately , . .
on receiving news
0 f the Albany tornado, President
Roosevelt dispatched Francis F.
Shurling, of the National Emer
Sency Council, to make a survey
of the city and report back to
him the amount of Federal aid
A stricken city, injured and dying
people, ought, not to be left to
charity.
Four years ago this spring, a
terible tornado struck Gainesville,
another beautiful Georgia city.
(and the home town of Edgar B.
Dunlap) leaving behind it an
appalling loss of life and destruc
tion of property.
As soon as the dead were bur
ied and the debris cleared away,
Gainesville applied for and was
When Franklin D. Roosevelt
was inaugurated for his first
gloom and despair, and in twenty
four hours the representatives oi
great financial interests were
swarming in Washington, crying
out to Roosevelt to save them—
which he did.
Now these same interests are
denouncing him with more vio
lence than any President has been
denounced in American history
since Andrew Jackson. As the
Atlanta Journal a few days ago
said editorially, the country when
Roosevelt took office was “like a
man lying in a wrecked automo
bile at the bottom of an embank
ment, but now he goes with vig
orous stride and with something of
prudence learned from misfor
tune.” And, The Journal
eluded: “We may agree with our
pious Republican ftiends that it
was Nature or Providence that did
the healing, but let’s not forget
the doctor who came when the pa
was at his worst.”
Four years ago the Liberty
Leaguers and Roosevelt-haters ol
Georgia had a scheme framed ui
to shut off a Presidential primary
and to send to the Philadelphi;
convention a hand-picked delega-,
opposed to Roosevelt's nom
ination for a second term. It took
organized uprising of outraged
Democrats to break up
i
nearest grocery
and be a satisfied
daily.
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Rolls, Pies, Etc.
and Party Cakes.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940.
Rotar y Club
Meeting Held
Recorded Chimes Wlil Be
Placed in Methodist
x Church.
The regular meeting of the Cov
j n gton Rotary Club was held Tues
day n00r , a (. tbe oelaiiev j Hotel with
Dr s L Waites 1(resld nit .
The meo ting was opened with the
son g_ •'America.'' followed by prayer
j pd bv j t McKay. President waites
then called upon Guy
wbo reported on the "first project
, of 1SH0 ,- ,-himes for Covington. Mr
Robinson stated he had received a
letter from James H. Porter, of Ma
con, who agreed to pay the cost of
the project. The chimes will be
erected in the First Methodist
; church as requested by Mr. Porter
and will be named the "McCracken
j chimes ’ for William McCracken,
grandfather of James Porter, who
was hvmn master at the church
many years- The chimes will
erected immediately.
The club voted to sponsor a
munity Service Day in Covington,
and President Waites named a com
mittee to make arrangements.
Thoas Hay, chaiiman. W. O Dor
ough and Milton Brogdon. Dr
Charles E. Barker, of Rotary Inter
national vu> be the speaker of
day and will address the Rotary
Club, high school students and the
entire rommuidty.
President Waites then named the
c mm'i/ee for Ladies Night, which
will b' held on March 12th, as fol
; lows: Chan Smith, chairman
| Spence Ramsey, and Dr. E. L. Ex
ley. Arrangements will be made by
this group
Announcement was made of the
j resignation of Bob Griffin as Di
rector of the Club. Mr- Griffin is
1 leaving the Chicago w’here
citv for
he will go into training for a new
positrn. with Westinghouse.
propaganda. .The candidate they
have chosen to enter in a primary,
if one is called, is Vice-President
Garner. They evidently think
they might carry Georgia for Gar
ner jf Garner had no opposition.
Mr. Garner was a candidate,
<- by proxy it is true), but never
theless a candidate, in the Georgia
primary in 1932, and did not carry
a single county. One of the chief
objections set up against him was
his age, and that was eight years
a g 0 , and today Mr. Garner is eight
y ears old than he was in 1932.
being now in his seventy-first
year,
As everyone knows, Mr. Roose
V elt is not seeking and probably
w ni not seek the Democratic
nomination, but there is daily in
creasing evidence that the nomi
nation will seek him; and that
the Democratic convention in Chi
C ago will be satisfied with no
other.
Very pertinently Ralph McGill
observes in the Atlanta Constitu
tion
“All this sudden tumult for a
Presidential primary is a bit puz
zling. Who is paying the money
for it? Radio time is not bought
with Confederate greenbacks or
straw. The pamphlet entitled.
Georgia Demands A Presidential
Primary,’is a costly pamphlet. It;
is printed in three colors, and a
three-color job is very expensive.
Who is paying for all this? Who
are they and what do they expect
to get out of it?”
Of all the amazing and incred
ible things that have happened in
Georgia politics in many a long
year was the way the Liberty
Leaguers and Roosevelt-haters.
maneuvering behind Edgar B.
Dunlap, as their front man and
mouthpiece enticed former Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge into their
trap.
One would have thought that
Mr. Talmadge could smell a trap
about as far away as any man in
politics. Certainly as far,
if not farther.
But now Mr. Talmadge finds
in the role of “the fly,” i
opposite Ed Dunlap in the j
of “the spider.”
“Come into my parlor,” said the
to the Fly.
And the Fly accepted the in
and thereupon the Spider
to strip him of legs,
eyes, and so forth and et
The title of the story of
Iowa's triumph over Notre
Dame should be, “SOSIE
TIMES THE DICE ROLL
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STATE HOSPITAL NEAR COMPLETION
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This huge building, one of five in Georgia’s great new Mental
Hospital now nearing completion at Milledgeville, is known as housing
building Number Four. When occupied it will house over 625 patients
i doctors and attendants to
and the necessary care for them. (See
story in this issue.
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KeV ' 0s " ald A Blumlt - evangel-
1st and le-turer. of Latvia, was the
speak,,>r'at i chapel v Mondav. nua '
James Swint visited at his home
„ 1>0int laSl week end
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Dean Gtorge fa, Roach is recov
ering tapic iy from a recent attack
of influenza.
H ..herson Hogg and Fay Dur
* 1;,m f 'P en t l^st week-end at their
home in Cedartown.
George Fuller visited at his home
ln At antil last week-end.
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde A- Clark, of
Windsor Conn., visitetd their son
Emory, tvho is a student in the
freshman class, last week-end.
Oscar Freeman was at his home
ln ® d,sde “ A a - ,!ist we ( 'k-end.
A rijbate team composed of Alvis
ai,? anfi Jac -' < Burne >t- engaged a
team uom tho Demostenian Socie
ty of thte University of Georgia on
Tuesd.y afternoon.
Emeu Boynton visited at, his
home in Arlington last week-end,
George Roach Jr., and Robert
Scrra spent last week-end with
friends in Atlanta.
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1 Fftr W/ Ln Mr ' ' n R ‘ r F (Zvnvtl lT 1 anl
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Funeral services for Mr. Benja
mine Franklin Grant, 65. who died
at his home ;it Porterdale last Sat
urday, were held Sunday afternoon
at 3 o' lock from the Baptist church
Rev. J H Reynolds officiated and
was assisted by Rev. L. M. Lyda. In
terment was at County’ Line.
Mr. Grant had lived at rorter
dale for 20 years- He w as a mem
ber o! the Baptist church. He came
to Po-terdale and Bibb Mfg Co
from Leguinn district. He was a
Msson of the old type, true to his
vows, and honest in his dealing:;
with h’s fellow man. His many
friends are saddened at his pass
ing.
He is survived by his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Jessie Mae Shaw,
Port -rciaie. Mrs Gusste Gunnell
Stewart, Newton County; two sons.
Geo.ge W and Albert G Grant, of
Porterdale, four sisters. Mrs Bell,
Cotton Griffin, Mrs. Lucy Cheek.
Griffin, Mrs Lizzie Childs. Rome
Mrs Hattie Parnell. Covington; one
broth r. John Grant, Griffin. The
News exter-ds sympathy to the be
reaved family. G. W. Caldwell and
Son were the funeral directors in
cha"ge
John RHeU ThofliPSOJl
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Funeral service? for Mr. John Ri
ley Th mpson. 75, who died at hi
home " lhe Rocky Plains district
last F-idp; ■ were held last Satur
day afternoon at 3:30 from th
Hopewell ihun-h Rev. Haiger of
ficiated and interment was at the i
churchyard.
He ts survived by his wife, Min
nie Gsidner Thompson, two daugh
ters, Miss Lurline and Miss Mar
Covington; two sons
Ralph Thompson, Lawrenceburg. N
and Harold Thompson. Danaillo i
; jre sister. Mrs. J. C. McFaden
Mountain. N C The New
sympathy to the bereaved
am j| v . j q Harwell and Son were
fu.’rr.il directors in charge.
SEE
JOHN C. TUCKER
At Ramsey Furniture Co.
For
RADIO REPAIR
GUARANTEED
Moderate Rates
Phones 145 and 237
Hospital Buildings
Ahead of
With three buildings nearly
complete and work ahead of
schedule on two others, Georgia’s
great new five-building Mental
Hospital located at Milledgeville,
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is nearing completion, according
to to a a statement statement given gi\en out uui this uu.
week by the Chairman of the
5° ~ 1 suoto Hncnitai An
R H Freeman ' Jr ’ of
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With the new group of modern ’
fireproof buildings, Georgia’s State
Mental Hospital, founded nearly a
hundred years ago as the “State
I Lunatic Asylum”, will take a tre
mendous step forward in the
treatment of Georgia’s mentally
I sick. The five giant buildings in
the Mental Hospital group are
being built at a cost of over four
million dollars, most of which was
secured in grants from the Federal
Government. Every cent of
money has been expended to get
r the greatest possible results in
order that Georgians needing
treatment for mental sickness may
have the newest and most modern
methods.
Electric Shock
Kills Youth, 8
William Asbury Parks, 8. of
Thomaston, was killed bathtutj, recently
K when, stepping out of the
he became entangled in a shorted
electric-heater wire and was
subjected to 110 volts of electric
ity. When found by the maid
the youth had failed back into the
tub and was burned slightly
Notices
LODGE NOTICE
The regular communication of
Golden Fleece
Lodge. No. 6 F. –
A. M, will be held
Friday evening at 8
o'clock P- M The:
hiier apprentice de-!
gri e will be con
ferred at this time. All members
and '’L-iling brethren are cordially
irtviteJ to attuir . By order of
H. F. MEADORS. W. M.
E. G. LASSITER Sec.
MEETING
-pbp n j n ^h civisicnal meeting of Ki
warns Clubs will be
MKM, held at Emory at
':§(■ jxlord's Hay good
AwCF L mitory dining
bil , tonight (Thurs
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dii> i witb Lieuten
ant Governor Reginald Trice, of
Madon, as pircijal speaker- He j
w ill also preside at the meeting.
sin , P; , W1 n | r d tv V. Y. C. Eady
No meeting will be held Thursday
noon.
/. H. DAVID President.
W. M BEFRY Secretary
MEEiiNG
The regular weekly meeting of the J
Covington Rotary
Mi Club will be held
at th’e Delaney i
Hotel Tuesday at
12:30 o'clock with
W C MeGahee in
charge of the pro- ‘
Rram Secretary of State John B
wlls0n wlU bp pr; ‘ icip; ', 1 ® peaker ai ' d
all menibers are especially urged to
attend. All via 1 ting Rotarians in-j
vi ted.
DR S I. WAITES. President
GEORGE STAUFFACHER Sec.
MELTING
Newton com ty Post No. 32 of the
American Legion
-vill meet hereafter
on the first Tues
day in each month.
All members are
urged to make ar
rangements At alitnd these meet
ing? By ordi- of
J.JCCDY SUMMERS. Com
C.UY ROGERS. Aojular.t.
Pratt Lumber
Co. Employs
Over 50 Men
Over 7.800 Firms Qualify [
With the Unemployment
Compensation Bureau.
Pratt Lumber Company, of
Covington, Ga., has recently qual
ified as an employer under the
Georgia Unemployment Compen
sation Act, the Bureau of Unem
ployment Compensation has an
nounced.
The firm employs 56 workers,
who, if and when they lose their
jobs through no fault of their own
and meet legal requirements, will ,
be entitled to benefit payments 1
from the Unemployment Compen
nation Trust Fund. ;
Latest reports show that over j
7.800 persons, firms and corpora
tions have qualified with the Bu
reau of Unemployment Compen
sation as employers under the
law and that over 413.000 workers
are protected by the Unemploy
mgnt ComDensation T _, gt Fund .
To Tn mial qualify - fv for for hpnpfit benefit pay navment ts, ,
a worker must earn in “covered
employment cinpiuj'iiicjj l in u the me first three unee of ui
the last four completed calendar
quarters an amount equal to six
teen times h * s weekly benefit
amount; register /or work: file
claim for benefits; be able and |
available for work and serve a
two weeks waiting period.
—NEWS FROM—
OXFORD i
■Y MRS. W, U FLOYD
Mr. and Mrs. E A. Edwards and i
son, Ernest, and Miss Evelyn Estes l
motor-o to Atlanta Tuesday night
nnd attended the grand opera,
Mjs 3 Ogoes Stephens visited her
, 0 ‘ th .. *’ eek end returning
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to ^ St Joseph . Infirmary, where she
is in training - c be a nurse
Re 7 W. W. o cr
ill. His many fripnds wish for him
a speet-y recovery
Mrs. William Budd's brothers
Came Sunday from Mjssippi to at
tend the funeral of their mother
Sunday a, Ox .'aid cemetery. Her
manv fRenos sympathize with them
in this sad berervement
Mrs. W L Floyd was the dinner
guest of Mrs. C aren. e Meador and 1
Mrs. A. A Webt Friday.
Mr. and Mr= E. A Edwards at- j
tended the marriage of their niece.
Miss Frances Gtoige, to Mr. Hugh
McLanaham, of Covington.
Mr. II. X. Forester, of Atlanta,
visited fri< rids in Oxford and Cov
ington this week.
Mrs. Hershc Rav has returned
home front. Emory Hospital, after
Undergoing an operation and Is
Convalescing nicely to the delight
of h v many friends
Litt e Margelee Ellis is improv
after her recent Illness.
Mr and Mrs W L Floyd had as
their guests Sunday Mr and Mrs, j
Floyd and children, Patri-1
and Billy, Mr and Mrs. John
Flryo and John R., II
of Atlanta.
NOTICE! 1;
CC MMENCING
Monday, Feb. 19ih I;
There will be an additional charge of 50c per ton for
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carrying coal into the lower floor of residence 1
any or
business house by basket or tubs, and $1.00 per ton
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extra if the coal has to be delivered to the second floor.
E. L. King Coal Company
Godfrey – Candler ;
Atlantic Ice – Coal Company
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Royal Crown Bottler Will
Begin Advertising Campaign
Newspapers will play a strate
gic part of the 1940 plans for
Royal Crown Cola when we launch
the gretaest advertising and mer
chandisign campaign in our his
tory,” according to Mr. S. R.
Jennings of Nehi Bottling Co.
"We are taking advantage of the
tremendous momentum which
Royal Crown’s sensational sales
increase has given us.”
Mr. Jennings goes on to say
that more than 400 newspapers,
coast-to-coast, wil Icarry dozens
of hard-hitting Royal Crown Cola
advertisements. By latest esti
mates these newspapers will reach
25 million readers,
In addition, color advertise
ments specifically aimed at almost
five million women—“purchasing
agents fo rthe great American
home’ - will appear in women s
magazines.
Radio will also be vigorously
used. Royal Crown atkes to the
a ’ r a 8ain on February 16th, ovei
,he 88«station coast-to-coast net
work of the Columbia Broadcast
in * S y stem ’ “Believe It Or Not”
Bob R jp i e y wilf again be the
headlined " ea ° llne< ” feature ‘ ’ with R A
R 0 jf e and b]S orchestra . and , song
stress Linda Lpe In general the
p ro g ram w j]i follow the pattern of
j ast year ’ s show, which was of
finally rated one of the top at
tractions on the air. Bob Ripley
promises even greater emphasis
upon humorous “Believe It Or
Nots” when he parades his as
tounding aggregation of oddities
before CBS microphones every
Friday night during most of the
remainder of 1940.
Mr S. R. Jennings states, “Un
usual dealer helps, store displays I
and merchandising stunts will
complete the biggest advertising
‘push’ ever put behind Royai
Crown Cola.”
George Mung-er explains the suc
cess his Pennsylvania team has
had wnth an ae r i al at tack by
presdhee of Eddie , , . Allan, , sopho
more wingback, in the lineup. Ed
die is used to the airways, being
a parachute jumper in the off sea
BAW
HELP WANTED I
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Colored Couple
(Without Children)
Wife to cook and man to work odd jobs. I
Will furnish meals and home to right
couple and give job good l
permanent at
salary—those interested apjfly ;
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Covington News Office
For Interview
Number 7
ATLANTA
MARKETS
Furnished by Courtesy of
COLUMBUS ROBERTS
Commissioner of Agriculture
Livestock
Strictly corn-fed hogs, 180-24cl
lbs, $5.50; 150-175 lbs., $5.25,J
145 down. $4.75 down; 245-300 lbs
$5.25: 305-350 lbs.. $5.00; best beei 1
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type steers, $8.00-$8.50; medium
$6.00-$6.50; common steers and )
heifer^, $4.50-$5.50; fat cows
$5.0U-$5.25: medium S4.50-S4.75
canners, $3.25-$3.75; fat bulls!
$5.00-$5.50; fat calves, $7.50-$8.00
$4.50 down. I ■
Poultry
Large white eggs. 27-2»c pel ,
doz.; medium 25-27c; heavy hens 1
12-14c; Leghorns 08-10c; friers .
15-18c.
Produce
Appies . , (staymen) , , . $1.25-$1.35 .. n , ,
beans , Lima $4.00-$5.00 per bu.
snaps, $4.00-$5.00; cabbage, $1.60
$1.75 cwt.: grapefruit, 75-80c sack
onions, dry, 50 lb. sack, $1.25-'
$1.50; potatoes, 100 lb. sack, Rus
sets, $2.35-$2.50; rutabagas, 50 lb
sack, 90-$1.00; sweet potatoes 1
Porio Ricans, S1.25-$1.50; poorer
grade, 60-75c; tomatoes, 50 lbi
crate. $5.00-$6.50.
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, i F H A TERMS NOW ON ^jh I
BUILDING
MATERIALS
FOR THAT REPAIR JOB !
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