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oh My! YOU know I’ve
win g the Bnss a long
j„ fact we were chums
ears before he got mar
ind we were sorter wor
[pr fear we would be
but sir' Me, ’n the
his wife • • . well we are
Jjig family and narry a
anniversary has passed
have not had me for
this last one Sunday,
, perfect for
L was a one,
prise came to the three
very thing on that table
hfd bv our friend Hat
,
lunnally of Oxford . . .
nder young green beans.
yellow and pretty to
o red beets,
ist . . . vivid
Lttiest spring onions we
| and the Boss gave
.,
m to me . . . She grew
i her garden, and along
s lovely basket she
a seasons first dahlias
h well, after the pretty
ft peas I wouldn’t begin
3 ]1 the other different
lowers, except that pret
[lia [o Bud for ... this We but were she
her
t there . , , for in the
the daintiest card and
lief all for the Office Boy
vith her own fingers and
axon or nobody else ex
tier work! It shall be a
epsake.”
. but the older we get
ke care about how old
[• [ting in our old childish age we seem
[body more . . .
seems to know it,
[ver had so many and sweet
[ friends ... we
he ’um all for that would
[ L but gosh we wouldn’t forty.”
were “fat and
tart' fe of all Covington
saddened at the pass
es. Dolly Turney the Belcher wife
f S ee. who was
te Mr. Arch Belcher of
. she came of one of
s most illustrious fam
father had been Gov
lennessee, and it is need
j how many friends she
, but somehow it was
.us, that she wanted to
I here to Covington,^and
in the family
It Starrsville, with the
pf I the family of her hus
course to know Miss
fclcher and her sister,
krl.’’ as she is lovingly
rail, is to love them, and
hard to understand just
k’ould want to be brought
p. We've lived in many
our life, and in many
It Newton County sur
ly County, in the Union
fnger a while here . . .
u want to stay ... to
\ people is to love them
are the South's finest
1 jn are sweet, loyal, true,
sickness or sorrow
ly are at your side. We
p we could say of New
y as a whole that it does
l of the greatest Com
pi “Love thy neighbor
p' pout Well, it that's The the way
. . Boss
tt have to leave alone if
1 to leave Newton Coun
ts id better say right
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nething that as friends
hbors you and I some
id to say to each other,
o! Newton County, your
y lores you one and all.”
ar h are saddened at the
which brought painful
o Mrs. Abe Loyd, one of
beloved Citizens , . We
.
P that the Great Phys
^ very near her, as well
he friends whose hearts
'"mg from the loss of
1 a birthday this week,
!c f a lot of nice things
1° us . but nicest of
. .
’hen my buddie Dan
. . .
ame running in to see
Rs here for just a short
P T °woa and Gosh!
. .
[ r e e b «k and He's prom
with spend a
me this summer
right to love somebody
f bke that and we are
..
? th er good as we’d like to
K I do envy the Wilson
' - and I don't even
>y like Dan 1 want
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t said I’d bet
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Volume 76
CERTIFICATES GIVEN NYA BOYS :
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NEVUS GIVEN BY
McMutlan Point* to Danger
Of Nimatode
Damage.
Farmers of Newton county
! s hould be on the lookout for
Nematode damage in wheat and
rye. Grain infested with this
insect will be twisted or curled
during the winter and early spring.
After the grain has headed the
glumes will be opened and chaff
will contain a hard, dark-brown,
gall-like substance instead of
a normal grain, These galls
may be mistaken for vetch seed,
smut balls, cockle seed or other
substances found in threshed
grain. If one of these galls is
opened and examined under a
microscope it will be found to
contain thousands of cell-like
worms called nematode. Where
this is found the grain should not
be used for seed and the land on
which the infested grain was pro
duced should not be seeded to
grain for two years, While this
trouble is present in several
counties in !he state, we have not
heard of any in Newton county,
but think our farmers should be
advised to be on their guard.
We have seen some terribly
grassy cotton this week and hope
our farmers can have a fair week
It seems that all the May grass
crop is coming now. Boll weevil
reports have been very encourag
i ng and as we see squares forming
rapidly on cotton, it seems that
we may get a crop set before the
boll weevil becomes plentiful. M
is our opinion that the cold
weather last winter and the late
spring has greatly reduced the
'number of weevils coming out of
hibernation.
It is a belief of ‘‘ole timers”
that cotton infested with lice in
the spring makes a good crop. If
this is true we are in for a bumper
crop, as we have seen more lice
this spring than we have seen for
several years.
Our farmers have not yet
learned to use combines in har
vesting small grain. The great- ]
est mistake we see is trying to
harvest before the grain is dry.
When using a binder the grain
is shocked in the field and al
lowed to cure or dry for several
days to weeks- But when a com
bine is used the grain is ready
for the storage bin. This means
that all the drying and curing
must be done before the harvest
is begun- Be sure to not only let
your grain ripen thoroughly be
fore using a combine, but make
sure it is dry.
The recent rains have certainly
stimulated the growth of les
pedeza. There should be a good
hay crop in the county this year
as well as an excellent se«d crop.
So far we have received very
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Thomas Callaway, Jr., Announces
As Candidate for Legislature
Thomas G. Callaway, Jr.,
of the leading young men df the
city, announced his candidacy this
I week for Representative of New
ton county to succeed Pat Camp
bell, who has entered the Senate
race.
“Tommy” as he is known to his
many friends throughout the coun
ty, is the only son of Mr. T. G
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Pictured above are members of the National Youth Administration Class at the Jackson Lake F. F. A, Camp who will receive cer
tificates: Front row, left to right: Harold Cox, Homer Wilson, William Austin, Emmitt Cole, Eldridge Hendrix, Virgil Stewart, Howard
Bishop Perliss Yong, W. T. Dodd, Aina Mixon, Oscar Kiser, John L. Morris, Ernest Crosby, James Ashe, Haroid Hollifield, Lewis Tucker,
Reid Rogers, Otho Pharr; Second row, left to right: Edward Taylor, Edgar Parson, Or.ro Cargiie, Harvie Neill, Wilton Smith, J. B. Page,
James Atkinson, George McClung, Fred Mackey, George McRee, Benson Bryant, Stanley Climer, Marion Middlebrooks, Sterling Dubose;
Back row, left to right: T. D. Brown, Jr., Supervisor, Bryan Henderson, Carl Landers, Alton Banks, J. H. McMurray, Lowell Hipps, Thom
as Brooks, George Inlow, Molden Bailey, Bonner Hall, Perry Brooks, Weyman Mobley, Leaman Banks, W. L. O'Steen, Cecil Nelson, ■
Walker Wall, Paul Peed, Edward Waters, Dorsey Brewton, Lloyd Jay, Elbert Meeks, W. A. Maddox, Jr., Director of N. Y. A. Project.—
News staff photo by Arrowood.
Grand Jury List ‘
Is Drawn For
The July Term
Chester C. King Head* List
Of Jurors for Coming
Session.
The following Grand Jury
list was drawn to serve at the
July term, 1940. Newton Superior
Court:
Chester C. King, .T, M. Meador,
Rainey Mitcham. C. D. Barnett.
T. G. Barnes, T. G Callaway, E.
L. King. J. O. Black, C. C. Hod.
R H Bird. W. N. Blake. ( . C.
Jordan, G. H. Davis, F. B. \
deman. Charles Aiken. J. 7..
Almand. S. C. Candler, P T. Aus
tin. A. R. Perkins, T. P. 1 read
well, C. E, Trainer, W- P. Hod
gins. A. M. Bennett. P. J. Rogers.
W. S. Cook, Leon Cohen, J. Wal
ker Combs, J J. Fincher, W. A.
Owens, W. G. Adams.
The following Traverse Jury,
j„L m 6~"b s : 5,vi. Has S :
Bob
ertson, J. G Turner, R. T. Hull,
H. Giad.v Jones,
Donald, W. ^ ^ ^
Sockwell, H F. Chapman, Harvey
Jones, C. A. Cason, W. J. Piper.
R W. Pennnigton, J. T. Pittman,
Emmett Robertson, W C. Spivey
W T. Greer. Homer Cook, O. N.
Fisher. J. S. Harris, John H.
Downs, J. L Harwell, Jr„ B. H
Willingham, T. B. Hicks. A. A.
(Continued on Page Sixteen)
pioneer merchant of
Covington, and the former Miss
Ackie White. of a prominent
Newton county family. He at
tended Covington High School.
Darlington preparatory school and
completed his education at Emory
University in Atlanta.
Mr. Callaway is a lieutenant in
the Officers Reserve Corps of the
United States Army and recently
completed a two-weeks training
course at Camp Blanding, Florida.
He is vice-president of the Cov
ington Kiwanis Club and has also
served as director for the past
three years. He is former chair
man of Newton County Red Cross
Roll Call where he made a fine
record for the county in raising
funds for the needy.
When the Boy Scout organiza
tion of the County first started,
Mr- Callaway joined wholeheart
] edly in this movement and serv
: time Advancement
ed for some as
chairman in the county organi
zation. He has taken an active
interest in the progress of tht
c ity and county and has taken
active part in all worthy move
ments, this
Mr Callaway is, at
a member of the Night
Club and the C-olf Club, in Pot
terdale. He is actively engaged
business in Covington and is part
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940
Th ird if ura I - Irban
Conference To Meet
The third annual
Conference will be held in Atlanta j
at the Municipal Auditorium on j
Friday and Saturday, June 28-29.
This conference is under the di
rection of Mrs. Robin Wood, Di
rector of the Women’s Division of
the State Department of Agricul
ture. It is expected at the confer- i
ence to have women present from -
every county. The maximun num
her expected is two hundred from
eac t, county. one hundred from!
rural section and one hundred
j rom the towns and cities.
The purpose of this conference
j s create a better feeling be
tween the women from the coun
try and the women of the towns:
and cjties 0{ all sections n f Geor-|
gj a an( f America; to promote sound
pc0n omics wholesome social rela
t ,onships, and higher standards
o{ rP | igion an< j morals. Besides the
thp wornPn vv h 0 are expected from
Fire j-v Destroys
Wright s Barn
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$5,000 Damage Estimated;
Valuable Stock
Perishes.
Between two and three hundred
Covington people early Tuesday
morning were drawn from their
■ beds to the scene of this city’s
biggest fire since the Wheeler
store burned about two years ago.
] Jack Wright's barn, located below
the Central of Georgia R. R sta
| lion, caught fire and buri-cd to
! the ground, destroying several
valuable animals.
The total loss, only partially
: covered by insurance, is estimated
at approximately $5,000 by Mr.
Wright.
The alarm was turned in about
2 a. m. Tuesday and was promptly
i answered by the fire department.
The blaze was beyond control
when the truck arrived, however.
Ernest Smith and about 12 or 13
volunteer firemen answered the
call
The loss included the barn,
a Percheron stallion said by Mr.
Wright to have been one of the
finest in the state; a jack ass,
valued at $1,100; five registered
jersey cows; and feedstuff, sad
dles and harness.
The cause of the conflagration
is unknown.
To All News Correspondents
The management of the News extends an invitation to all
Covington News correspondents and their husbands or wives
to attend a luncheon at the Delaney Hotel on Saturday, July
6th, at 12:00 o’clock noon. Every correspondent and employee of
the paper is especially urged to attend as a number of matters
of interest will be discussed. Those attending must, notify the
News office not later than July 1st and should do so earlier if
] possible as reservations can not be made after that date. More
complete details will be announced later.
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the towns and rural sections of
Georgia, county Commissioners,
Editors, County School Superin
tendents, County Welfare work
ers- WPA Supervisors and teach
ers. 4-H Clubmembers, NYA mem
hers, of civic clubs, Home Demon
stratipns Agents, Librabrians, Vo
cations! Teachers, Teachers of
Home FconoiYiics and anybody
else not included in the above
lists. It is going to be a meeting
j n which people from all walks
of life get, together, talk things]
over and come to an understand
ing of relationships,
Discussions will be from a host
of people, such as Mr. LeTour
neau, Mrs. Rolleson. Dr M. D.
Collins. Mr. DL D. Mobley. Wal
ter S. Brown, Miss Lurline Col
her, Mrs Leila Mize. Dr- T. E.
Abercrombie. Ralph McGill, Mil
dred Seydel, Walter Paschal. Mrs. 1
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Atlanta 4 ,| . f* Credit J*.
Man to Speak
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Newton Credit Exchange to
Snonsor Speaker and
Film.
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W. L. Gilbert of Credit Service,
Atlanta, who is secretary of* the
Georgia Credit Association, will be
in Covington Tuesday night, June
25, to show a sound film dealing
with the handling of credit rat
ings and to deliver an accompany
ing lecture, according to A. J.
Wismer, manager of the Newton
County Credit Exchange.
Mr. Gilbert will appear at the i
court house at eight o’clock. All
merchants, whether or not mem-,
hers of the county exchange, and
the general public have been in
vited to attend the performance by
Mr. mission Wismer. charged. There will be no ad- j
i
This feature comes as a prelude
to a revision of credit, ratings to
be based upon an audit of local
merchant members' books. Audit
ing will begin July 1. Mr. Wismer
points out that it would be wise
for all persons to “catch up” any
slow accounts before thi. date and
thus improve their rating.
Elsewhere in this issue of the
News is a paid advertisement con
cerning toe Newton County Cred
it Exchange.
5c SINGLE COPY
Sixty-Four Members
Of Jackson Lake NYA 1 i
Project Complete Work
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BELCHER BURIED
111 STABRSVILLE |
Mr*. DoIIie Turney Belcher
Die* at Murfreesboro
Home.
The burial of Mrs. Dollie Tur
ney Belcher, widow of Arch Bel
cher > a native of Newton county,
was solmenized at ten o'clock
Wednesday morning, June 19, at
Belcher Burial Ground, Starrs
ville. The deceased is the sister
in-law of Mrs. Pearl Taylor and
Mis s Ethel Belcher, of Covington,
Ga.
Mrs- Belcher died at her
Murfreesboro, Tenn., home Mon
day. Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning, and the body
was brought to Covington Tues
day night.
The deceased was an active
clubwoman and church worker,
being especially interested in the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy. Her father organized the
first regiment of Tennessee vol
unteers formed during the War
Between the States and served as
its colonel. He was wounded in
the Florida campaign, He was
a prominent political figure, serv
ing as a judge of the Tennessee
Supreme Court for 20 years and
as governor of the same state.
The deceased is survived by
I three daughters, Misses .Graham
! Belcher, of Ann Arbor, Mich.;
Vera Belcher, of Tallahassee, Fla
and Frances Belcher, of Taiequah,
Okla.
Burial arrangement were under
the direction of George Stauff
acher, funeral director.
Horned Too**
Georgia Vacation
„ , ard , Covington, „ .
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n ..° U e tee ,hou ® ht he
’„ vras
seemg thlngs , , last Saturday as he
passed by Dallas bridge. What he
actually saw, he found upon in
spection, was a horned toad,
To prove that he was not hav
jng -pink elephant” hallucinations
Mr. Sheppard brought the toad to
the News office. Just what Mr.
Toad, normally an inhabitant of
the western plains, was doing
down south in Georgia no one has
yet been able to explain. Maybe
he came down to cool off.
225 Openings In
The NYA Project
Is Announced
Newton County Boy* and
Girl* Have Opportunity *
-p 0 w or k
Newton County boys and girls
who are out of school, unem
ployed, and between the ages of
18 and 24 inclusive, are eligible
to apply for the 22S openings
which will exist on July 15th at
the National Youth Administra
tion's resident work experience
center near Clarkesville, it was
announced today,
This Habersham project, oper
ated by the N. Y. A. under spon
sorship of the Habersham Countv
Board of Education, is designed
( 0 offer practical work experience
and re | a t e(d instruction to boys
and girls of this section who de
sire to equip themselves for lives
as successful farmers or home
makers or to earn a livelihood in
industry or trades.
Ytouths are assigned to the cen
ter for a period of one year, dur
mg which .... t.me ,, they earn their
subsistence and $10.00 per month
in cash, in addition 1o the actual
work experience offered in the
fields of scientific agriculture, all
phases of homemaking, ceramics,
welding, radio, woodshop, crafts,
metal work and similar occupa
tlons -
Pat Campbell Announces As a
Candidate for State Senate
of the House ot‘ 1
from this county for toe past four I
sessions, has announced his can
didaev for the State Senate in the :
coming Democratic Primary this j
fall- He was elected to the House!
of Representatives in 1934 and I
again in 1936 without opposition,
“Pat” was born and reared in
Newton County and is the son of i
the late Senator R. W. Campbell, ]
who twice represented this sena-j
torial district in the State Legis- J
lature and also served in the]
House of Representatives. He was
the to last man this from senatorial Newton Coun- j j
tv serve district,
Pat Campbell is at present a
member of the State Democratic i
Executive committee and is also!
a delegate to the National Demo-j
cratic Convention to be held in !
Chicago on July 15th. Newton]
County is rightfully honored in
this, because it is the first time
since the War between the States
that Newton County has furnished I
a delegate to the National Con- ]
vention, or had a member on the
State Committee.
“Pat” Campbell is a graduate of
Covington High School. After his
graduation he attended Emory
University and graduated there
from the College of Arts and
Sciences. He continued at Emory
University and is a graduate of the I
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THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
41
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Mr. Robt. G. LeTourneau to
Make Commencement
Address.
PUBLIC INVITED TO
ATTEND EXERCISES
AT THE F.F.A. CAMP
Camp Is Located 13 Mile*
South of This City on
Jackson Lake.
Friday night, June 21, at 8:30,
sixty-four members of the Jack*
son Lake N. Y. A. Work Exper
ience Project will be awarded cer
tificates of Merit for the training i
that they have received in certain
occupational skills.
Mr. Robert G. LeTourneau, pres
ident of R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.,
Peoria, Illinois, America’s No. I
Christian Layman will make the
Commencement Address. The
speaker controls an $18,000,000
corporation, with approximately
I, 000 employees on the payroll.
His factories are located at Peoria,
Illinois; Stockton, California; and
Toccoa, Georgia. His equipment is
sold by 300 or more distributors
and dealers throughout the world,
and all of (he equipment that is
made by his company is designed !
by Mr. LeTorneau. The public is
cordially invited to attend the ex
ercises at the State Future Farm
ers' Camp, where the N. Y. A.
Work Project is located.
The following N. Y. A. Youths
will receive certificates: James
Ashe, Abbeyville; James Atkin
son, Newton; William Austin, Ce
dartown; Molden Bailey-, Ronp
ville; Alton Banks, Fayetteville;
Leaman Banks, Pelham; Howard
Bishop, Sharpsburg; Dorsey Brew
ton, Mershon; Perry Brooks, Roy
ston; Thomas Brooks, Logan ville,*
Benson Bryant, Canon; Standi
Carey, Royston; Ozroe Cargiie,
Mansfield; Stanley Climer, Rome;
Emitt Cole, Hartwell; Harold Cox,
Loganville; Billy Crawford, Wat
kinsville; Ernest Crosby, Sal*
City; W. T. Dodd, Grayson; Ster
ling DeBose, Blakely; Hubert
Green, Americus; Bonner Hall,
Lawrenceville; Claud Harper,
Byron; Jonathan Hayes, Hills
boro; Bryan Henderson, Macon;
Eldridge Hendrix, Cobbtown; Lo
well Hipps, Lawrenceville; Har
old Hollifield, Winder; Charles In
gram, Jackson; George Inlow, Dif
fee; Lloyd Jay, Smyrna; Kurby
Kemp, Gainesville; Oscar Kiser,
Rochell; Carl Landers, New Hol
land; James Lewis, Covington;
Perliss Long, Screven; George Mc
Clung, Finleyson; Fred Mackey,
Hartwell; George McRee, Watkins
ville; Elbert Meeks, Arlington; J.
H. McMurray, Gainesville; Mar
ion Middlebrooks, Oxford; Julian
Miller, Pavo; Alan Mixon, Ro
chelle; Weyman Mobley, Whig
ham; John L. Morris, Douglas;
Harvie Neill, Turin; Cecil Nelson,
Douglas; W. L. O'Steen, Ambrose;
J. B. Page, Hartwell; Edgar Par
son, Bishop; Paul Peed, Butler!
Otho Pharr, Dacula; Charles Polk,
Covington, Reid Rogers, Newton;
Wilton Smith, Bristol; Virgil
Stewart, Abbeyville; James H.
Stone, Monticello; Edward Taylor,
Williamson; Lewis Tucker, Perry;
Walker Wall, Dudley; Edward Wa
ters, Good Hope: Hughes White,
Abbeyville; Homer Wilson Logaa
ville.
Vacation Bible
School at First
Presbyterian Church
The Vacation Bible School op
ened at the Presbyterian Church
in Porterdale Monday morning
with a fine group of boys and
girls. Each day has witnessed
greater interest and finer work.
This group singing has been re
markably fine.
Including the teachers, the en- I
rollment in the school is 124.
Those assisting in the school as
teachers and leaders in addition
to the general Supervisor, Miss
Elizabeth Loyd, are: Miss Mae i
Hardman, Miss Emily Chapman,
Mrs. T. C. Parker, Miss Laura
Frances Christian, Miss Frances
Hinton, Mrs. Robert Cowan. Mr.
Dorsey Reagan, Mr. Ernest Ben
nett, Miss Bailey. Miss Marian
Minley, and Rev. Athol D. Cloud.
^cceSuIh ^'ampbell has
been eng ^ ged ^ton n he
Lrrlding practice W counties in anrt
He served
as City Recorder for two years
before being elected to the legis
lature.
While in the Legislature Mr.
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