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PAGE SIX
Tom Kinney Resigns—
Made Sports in Covington.
Tom Kinney, one of Covington and Newton
County’s best known young men, has resigned as
Sports Editor of the Covington News due to other du
ties that will take up his spare time. For more than
three years- Tom Kinney supervised and edited the
Sports Page. He was the first to start this special page
in the News and has received praise from time to time
from the South’s best known sport writers. Only re
cently he received the highest praise from Ed Dan
forth in the Atlanta Journal for his fine work. Sports
in Coving f on was only a minor pastime when Tom
started his page, but now sports is one of the city’s
leading forms of amusement. Tom Kinney made
sports in Covington. He will be missed and the entire
News staff extends to him, along with his many other
friends, the very best wishes. The Pickout column
will be continued and may be found each week in this
paper. Whenever Tom sees where he can, the man
agement will be glad to have him return a* a staff
writer.
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“A Guest Column By Edgar Wood”
FACTS AND FIGURES FROM —
I lie World of $|iorts
AN INCREASE IN SPORTS
Teeing off on their favorite golf course in the favor
ite pastime of some 3,000.000 Americans every week-end.
Municipal golf course players are increasing at the rate of
200,000 every year and numerically golf has made the
greatest progress of any sport in the past fifteen years.
And had you thought about the fact that golf is the only
game of the ball and stick type that requires no defense?
Even in billiards when a player is unable to make a shot,
he plays his opponent safe. Now each year more than a
rnilion and a half dozen golf balls are sold.
Did you know that Bowling originated in Italy more
than 1500 years ago? That bowling in Atlanta Georgia
last year showed an increase of 25% over the previous
year and that more than 25,000 players participated in
organized leagues. That 222 is the highest score recog
nized in the game of duckpins and was rolled by Jack
Denton of Baltimore, and that a perfect game would re
quire twelve strikes in a row. That a Covington boy rolled
170 a few weeks ago. That bowling has taken Hollywood
by storm since 52 new alleys were opened there recently?
Contrary to general belief, basketball draws the
greatest number of cash customers each year due to the
countless number of teams playing the game. Ice hockey
is considered the world’s fastest sport, and perhaps one of
the roughest. That roller skating was originated by the
Dutch to fill in while there was no ice to skate on. That
few records are kept on this sport but that one Covington
ian is supposed to have fallen fifty-seven times in less than
one hour? That a big league pitcher can throw a baseball
at the rate of 150 feet per second or from the mound to
the plate in 2-5ths of a second.
Babe Ruth earned more than one million dollars in
twenty years of baseball and hit a total of 708 home runs.
And speaking of auto racing one could hardly pass
the name of Ab Jenkins without a comment on his color
ful career. Jenkins is the recognized holder of 77 world's
records, and once drove for 24 continuous hours and aver
aged 112 miles per hour, the fastest sustained speed in
automobile history. His wife a short time ago was anxious
to have him give up his fast driving and attempting to di
vert his attention got him interested in politics. He ran
for Mayor of Salt Lake City, was elected by a large ma
jority but still drives his Mormon Meteor and his other
racing cars much to the dismay of the Mrs. In addition
to his duties as Mayor and driving his fast cars he spends
a great deal of his time in promoting safe driving cam
paigns in his city and state. An autographed photograph
of Mr. Jenkins was sent by him to a Covingtonian several
months ago.
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Motor Boat
Scheduled
At Jackson Lake
With about a dozen of
Southeast’s leading motor boats
pilots entered, the races at Jack
son Lake, scheduled for this com
ing Sunday, should prove to be
the most spectacular ever staged
in this section of the country.
Contestants from four Southern
States, Alabama, Florida, South
| Carolina and Georgia have sigm
fted that they will be on hand for
Sunday’s events.
Indications are that these races
should provide speed boat fans
from this area with plenty of
thrills, chills and spills. A large
crowd of spectators is expected to
be on hand and weather predic
tions point to an ideal day for
the event.
Speedsters that have stated that
they would be on hand include:
A. L, Raum and B. L. McFarland
of Birmingham. Alabama; Cal
Leeth, Culman, Alabama; Ross
Pfoff, Auburn, Alabama; Mabry
Edwards, Jacksonville, Florida;
Georrge Guy, Greenville, S. C.;
George ’Ballentine, also of Green
ville; Johnny Mahaney, of Sa
vannah; Charles Goodwin, Augus
ta; and Roy Reaves and Ted Fur
geson, both of Atlanta.
Outstanding Farm
Contributors Will
Be Named Here
Agricultural workerg and citi
zens of Newton County this week
were asked by Paul W. Chapman,
dean of the College of Agriculture
at the University of Georgia, to
submit the names of two persons
who have contributed most to the
Agricultural progress of Georgia.
All persons nominated will be
considered by a special commit
tee and those chosen will be recog
nized for their leadership in the
betterment of farming conditions
at the annual Farm and Home
week. August 5 10, in Athens, and
will be presented certificates.
In announcing the competition,
Dean Chapman pointed out that all
persons, regardless of occupation,
are eligible for consideration, ex
cept employees of the University
System.
“It is our desire to do honor to
those persons who have improved
Georgia agricultural conditions ev
en if they themselves are not en
gaged in farming,” he said.
“No Master Farmers will be
named this year,” Dean Chapman
said, “and in alternate years when
none are added to our roster, we
will follow the policy already es
tablished of honoring other lead
ers who have aided in agricultur
al development.
State Net Play
Slated at Griffin
August 12 to 17
Georgia's state tennis champion
ship matches will be played in
Griffin, AuguS tl2-17, sponsored
by the Griffin Lawn Tennis As
sociation, Rev. Fulton C. Lytle,
chairman, has announced. The
tournament j s sanctioned by the
United States Lawn Tennis As
sociation and will be Griffin’s
first.
According to Rev. Lytle, U.S.L.
T.A. rules and regulations will
be best of three sets except the
semi-finals and finals of the men’s
matches, which will be best of
five sets. D. Maner Patten, of
Chattanooga, an official of the
Southern Lawn Tennis Associa
tion, will he the tournament
referee.
Ten clay courts will be used, six
of w r hich are lighted. Play will
begin at 1 p. m.,.August 12, Rev.
Lytle stated.
In addition to the champion
ship state matches there will be
a junior division for those under
18 and a boys’ division for boys
under 15.
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Motor boat races will again be held Sunday afternoon at Jackson Lake Inn, where numerous
thrills may be found when some of the nation's best known drivers race across the water at break-neck
speed in an effort to be named the “winner’’!
Ga. Farmers Will
Vote Saturday c i
on
Tobacco Quotas
Georgia tobacco growers, as
well as those in other tobacco
belts throughout the country, will
go to the polls Saturday, July 20,
to determine just what the flue
cured tobacco policy in America
will be for the next three years.
Word comes from Secretary
Wallace in Washington that a 10
per cent reduction in quotas faces
the farmer growing tobacco next
year unless they approve market
ing quotas for the next three
years. He proclaimed a flue-cured
tobacco quota for the 1941-1942
marketing year of 556.000,000
pounds, with the provision that the
quota be increased to 618,000,000
pounds if growers approved the
three-year marketing quotas in
Saturday's referendum.
Growers will vote on: (1)
Adoption of marketing quotas for
the three-year period, 1941
through 1942. (2) Adoption of
quotas for 1941 only. (3) Rejec
tion of quotas.
Adoption of quotas required a
two-thirds majority vote. The
556,000,000-pound quota is ten per
cent less than that in effect for
the 1940 crop. The 618,000,000
pound quota is the same as that
for 1940.
Commenting on the approach
ing referendum, J. B. Hutson, as
sistant administrator of the AAA,
said the 618,000,000-pound quota,
plus the normal production on the
increase previously made in al
lottments for small farms, actual
ly means a total quota of some
650,000,000 pounds.
“This quota compares with an
estimated level of world eonsump-
15, 1941. Gunnery, Navigation, En
gineering, Communications, and
other technical skills will be
taught. cured
tion of United States flue
tobacco prior to the outbreak of
the war in Europe of around 775,
000,000 pounds,” he said. There
fore, if the 618,000,000-pound
quota, plus the increase for small
farmg, is maintained for four
years, 1940 through 1943, it will
mean production at a level about
100,000,000 pounds below the
present estimated world consump
tion level and should result in
elimination of the surplus of about
400.000,000 pounds, which result
ed from the extremely large crop
in 1939.”
“If quotas are disapproved,” he
added, “marketings in 1941 will
be uncontrolled as in 1939 and
ihere will be no price protection
for this year’s crop.”
Meanwhile, bright leaf tobacco
growers in South Georgia are
preparing for this year’s auctions,
which have been delayed until
August 8 by the United States To
bacco Association. Realizing what
this crop has meant to them since
it w r as introduced in South Geor
gia by the A. B. – C. Railroad
back in 1917, the growers appar
ently are happy over the ten extra
given them to prepare their
crop for the market.
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schooler, flashed to fame in National A.A.U. swim championships P
a ‘Santa Barbara, Cal., by breaking Johnny Weissmu!ler e^ghth s o/a^Ie i3-vear
oldlecord for 220-yard freestyle. He went the
TME COVINGTON NEWS
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Without . Knowing l It ,
Are you one of twins? If you
are not you may have been with
out knowing it. To be more expli
cit, there is a possibility—and a
strong one—that you were con
ceived as a twin, and that the
other member of the duo lost
identity through extrusion.
This was a suggestion—and on
ly a suggestion — laid before the
Chattahoochee Valley Medical As
sociation’s recent convention in
Atlanta by Doctors Groesbeck F.
Walsh and R. M. Pool, of Fair
field, Ala., in their paper “Twins
and Twinning.”
Dr. Pool said the idea has been
advanced by leading medical au
thorities, but lacks factual con
firmation. It is still a theory. Dr.
Walsh and Dr. Pool, on the staff
of the T. C. I. Hospital at Fair
field, have spent months studying
•case histories of twins and have
accumulated a wealth of material
in the subject.
“Why have we delved into this
field? Because it is intensely in
teresting and has unlimited op
portunity for exploration,” they
said.
Uses of Grasses
Will Be Discussed
At Tifton July 25
Increased uses of grasses and le
gumes along with their improve
ment and production in the south,
will form the major topics of dis
cussion at the regional grassland
conference at Tifton July 25 and
26, Director S. H. Starr, of the
Coastal Plain Experiment Station,
said this week, in announcing the
program for the occasion.
Bringing agricultural leaders
from all parts of the south to this
Georgia city, the conference will
open on Thursday morning.
The initial part of the confer
ence will include talks by some
of the leading agronomists in the
South. Thursday afternoon will be
devoted to group discussions, with
Director H. P. Stuckey, of the
Georgia Experiment Station, Ex
periment, serving as chairman.
The remainder of the day will be
taken up by field excursions to
pastures and grass breeding plots
on the Coastal Plain Experiment
Station farm.
“How to achieve a Grassland
Agriculture Suitable to the South”
will be the subject of discussion
on Friday, with Dean Paul W.
Chapman, of the University of
Georgia’s College of Agriculture.
Athens, serving as chairman. Ap
pearing on this phase of the pro
gram will be H. P. Cooper, dean
and director, Clemson Agricultur
al College, Clemson, S. C.; Direct
or Walter S. Brown, of the Georgia
Extension Service, Athens; and I.
O. Schaub, president of the South
ern Agricultural Workers Associ
ation, Raleigh, N. C.
The remainder of the Friday
morning program, which will con
cern general phases of grassland
agriculture, will be devoted to:
“The University System of Geor
gia—Its part, in Developing a grass
land agriculture in the South”, by
Chancellor S. V. Sanford, of the
University System of Georgia, At
lanta, and “Grasses and Men”, by
H. L. Blomquist, head of the Bot
department, Duke University,
N. C.
Friday afternoon will be con
cerned with a field excursion.
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Ranger Surrency
Sees Need For
More Ga. Wildlife
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Georgia Wildlife supply
the writer of a store which did
not have a good supply of mer
chandise, soon the neighbors start
ed to saying the store needs more.
Georgia needs more game. Needs
more fish, needs more deer, needs
more wild turkey, needs more
quail, needs more chukers, needs
more pheasants, needs a lot more
THOUGHT AS TO THE THING
GOD GAVE THE WILD TO HELP
HOLD GAME IN BALANCE —
the rabbit, needs more double guns
and less 5's and 7’s shot, need
more thoughtful SPORTSMEN. As
to what there is to this, need bet
ter and newer wildlife laws.
Studbaer Shows
High Deliveries
Domestic retail deliveries of
Studebaker cars and trucks in]
June were the largest for the
month since 1925, while factory]
sales to distributors and dealers!
last month exceeded any June in
twelve years, Paul G. Hoffman,
president of The Studebaker Cor
poration, announced today. Mr.
Hoffman further reported that
deliveries at retail last month
were greater than those of any
month sine* August 1928.
Factory sales in June of 11,528
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Covington A c e s
Score Easy Win
Over Scottsdale
The Covington Aces annexed
another win to their column when
they beat the hard hitting Scotts
dale team by a score of 8-1.
Travis Russell, he Ace right
hander, held the visitors to six
hits and fanner fourteen batters.
This game brings the Ace’s win
ning streak to twelve games out
of fourteen starts. Hitting stars
for the game were E. Brown, F.
Turner and Ike Grier. Each got
three hits out of fi\| trips to the
plate.
The next game on the Aces’
schedule is with the Porterdale
Re dCaps next Saturday after
noon at 4:00 o’clock at Sunset
park. Manager James Brown says
that this will be one of the
toughest that his team has played
so far this season.
passenger cars and trucks com
pared with 9,995 in May and
11.122 in June 1939. For the first
half of 1940, factory sales amount
ed to 61,788 units, the largest for
i the period since 1928 and compar
i > n S with 53,176 in the correspond
; ing period last year.
A a great . part of She family
can
”' n S needs can be supplied from
the home garden.
If poison remains on cotton ov
er night . u it is , usually „ effective in
controlling boll weevils.
The dairy cow supplies nearly ,
sumed one-fourth by American of all the families. food con- 1 j
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Aid for “gj Ge 0|
War On
nounced arrival Of
reinforcements . np«,,
f or Ge ° r gia
against B * n *s diseas
abortion, e ’ °r o
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stock industry. „ (th - ' or?l j
A second travel ing
with additional l a
,, . ' eterinarii
Georgia, in the
went Into action
to work southward f \“
county. The other, rom J S
tory will rav
. North complete the
ln Georgia and
south, both working the
ease is stamped un ^,
state. out througl
The reinforcements bri
Federal, forces up to 46
cognition wh^h to the e ffici M e J ,
a smaller f or
used during the l ast ;
Georgia has been w .
near the bottom broughtu
to third –
top among the 48 slates
number of counties cnnHH
accredited by the U S »
disease, Animal Industry the as Free!?
ed. commissioner
With Bangs under control
gia and herds of beef an l daiJ
swine can en joy j –
stillbirths „ without heavy 1 0 J J
which cut into \
er’s profits, Commissioner
said.