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the B < 4 ° the basement ’
' ,u,fnace smoking
[ king tne# is ...
know ,Jhen f en he floes not re
the smoke smells
„ tul Ji/cloth half and pine hour burn- later
fut a
(f !r s up from the base
loss had been
Kve knew he
. aid furnace ... “Well,
vou x the furnace?” we in
t in his smooth man
\ know he never gets
is so agreeable he al
.
its pa nifuJ sometimes) he
the furnace wasn’t
g, the house was just on
/ lit 1 put it out.” Can you
that not even rufflin’ him
e would get :
ex tent that he
•■The house was JUST
h we pick up the Constitu
■ a e always read Robert
|jj e s column and his “Aunt
I ■ Here is what I read:
experts have developed
■ n'estroy Ifcif weapon that planes will ut- j i
tanks and at
\ jX ■ manufactured of 10 miles. The with weapons the ut- '
Tecrecy I in a new completion. factory now To i
rushed to j
[against |ngs, officials sabotage have and future taken
[ I precaution the factory to keep secret. the It lo- ia j
of
■ two miles north of Grass
■ Maryland, on Highway No.
In If patch of woods 200 yards
Ificials the highway.
have decided to give
d 5.000 of the Navy’s new- j
H best bomb Secretary sights. Smith, The j
denied by j
■11 officials are maintaining
■most secrecy, but the bomb
■ were placed aboard a mys
■hip under cover of darkness
■• night Safe delivery to the
■ will insure English victory.,
lard against lurking sub
|ps the place and time of sail
fid the name of the ship have
[kept jh, the secret. Black The Star ship lnie. is She the
of
have Charleston for Bermuda j
■p. m. Tuesday under sealed
Hoita) gossips are enjoying a
■lory about Secrtary Smith
■Assistant Secretary Jones,
■wo have worked together in
■i harmony, for Jones has a
■ respect for his superior and
■ feels a fatherly affection
■s assistant. This is fortunate,
Hie success of defense plans
■d upon their harmonious
I ■eration. In fact, any quar
Htween them would be dis
Hs Monday evening Smith
Hn intimate friend that Jones
Hying to boss the department,
ter this was reported to Jones,
Hri. “What of it? The old fos
Hi t be trusted to sign his own
H unless somebody points out
Hotted line.’’
'rimy chemists,- working in the
Hi secrecy, have developed a
Hnd human gas that will make
Bca master of the world. One
of the liquid forms enough
■> cover an area three miles
■meter and paralyze all life
Bight Bicity, hours. Owing to its
and the ease with
it can be duplicated, the for
■ is kept a profound secret.
Bisists of one part formin, two
is this country coming to!
you Bn 111 in the air Office Boy
. . .
vilb impulsive sort anyway and
[ad the time had come when
l3 jF e to take the bull by the the
^Bila pra . Actually printing
for that gas so the Ger
L anrl what have you could
yo.1 back at us with it . ... THAT
,o,iJJf ,,-tc^H RT headlines QUILLEN. ... the 1 look story up
.^•■here over
is what I read: “IMAG
ST0RY FROM WASH
■ ,N i IN THIS ERA OF FREE
CH." 1 hope Robert Quil
- ith this story will scare
arl^B 1 ' n 8 ,on as much as he did me
p t them keep their secrets if
have any.
>d^H Paijses clipped - a SHUT-IN’S from one of PRAYER” the Ex-
5 *M. ^H am ' vriUen Alto, b y Georgia Miss Katherine
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L 19 Homes in
Newton County
pnt census figures just releas
A ° n r County, • total of of 4.819 this total homes 4.486 in
r " oupied. giving a percentage
vacant.
, Ls
total of 4,819 homes 1,
aip lr > Covington and 815 in
srdale.
" s latest information from the
3 Us hi e au gives the popula
,, n , , ,
. incw vour y
lion is given as 18,576.
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Volume 77
COVINGTON MAT v uEJ LARGE AIRPORT SOON
City ^ School Has Successful Year
D Progress nc Of
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City School
In ’40 Noted
Much Praise Due School
Board for Their
Effort.
MOKE MONEY RECEIVED
FROM COLLECTION OF
BACK TAXES IN CITY
Funds Promised by Governor
Will Greatly Aid
Schools.
The Covington School System
has closed a very successful yeai
under the capable management of
the city school board consisting of
Leon Cohen, chairman, Nat Turn
er, Wick Porter and Colonel Reu
ben Tuck as secretary-treasurer.
They have a record which very
few school systems in the state
can meet, and that is during all
the time the state has been hold
ing up funds for the school sys
tem, they have never missed pay
ing the teachers their full salaries
when due and have maintained
buildings and necessary repairs
They have no outstanding in
debtedness, with the exception of
a few current bills and still have
a substantial bank balance. This
speaks well for the able manage
ment of the school affairs.
The school board is now work
ing on plans to rebuild the negro
school building which was de
stroyed by lire and hope to have
it ready for occupancy by the first
°*® ep * elTlber ’
The building is . to be , built . .... in a
new location to get it off the High
way and thereby lessen the haz
ard of automobile accidents to the
children. It is to be erected on a
tract where Butter Benton, color
ed, now resides.
The school board has made num
erous improvements each year.
Last year the old auditorium was
remodeled and four new school
rooms constructed in its stead. The
school buildings in our city are
rated as among the best ten in
the state of all the city school sys
tems.
The grade of students rates very
high also as the school board has
a strict requirement in employ
ing teachers and require them to
atend summer school every two
years. states through
The school board
the fine cooperation of the city
council in collecting back taxes
they have received more money
this year and have been able to
use it to very good advantage,
Now that Governor Talmadge
has promised to pay .the back mon
ey which is due the school system
this will assist materially in re
building the colored school. The
board believe Gene will keep bis
word and are so sure the money
has been allocated.
While many people seem to
think the old school building is
not in good condition, they are
laboring under the wrong lmpres
sion. This old building is wonder
fully constructed with the finest
of materials and is first clsss in
every condition. Some of the tim
bers are put together with hand
pegs. heating equipment has been
New entire building
installed and the
has been rewired building
The new colored school
will have an economic and manual
-•>—:r.s en so beneficial
children of this community
Milledgeville College Choir
At Methodist Church Sunday
The Milledgeville College Choir,
which will appear here in a con
cert of the world’s finest music on
o’cSk ’ /«'' Methodist
V the state The singing is
support Jffret and depends for its superb
noon the perfect blending of
! ' th, votaes in the choir. Choir
mi Milledgeville College
ssf-su-r b0 i r in this section of
. ,.
( defects, but a cappella z mu
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Enterprise, Est. 2864.
Covingten Star, Est. 1874.
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School Hold Meeting at
Conyers Boptist Church
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One of the finest Schools of In
struction in Sunday School work
ever held in this, the Stone Moun
tain Association was held on Mon
day at the First Baptist Church.
During the morning session Rev
l. L. Hurley, Pastor of Maple
street Baptist Church of Rome.
Georgia, Presided.
Mr. Hurley presented Miss Su
sie Eubanks, beloved leade,
throughout the Southern States,
who spoke on, “Taking the Church
Census.” "Forming New Classes,'
"Providing more Space and "In
tensifying Visitation.”
Miss Marie Estes, of Nashville.
Tennessee spoke on “How to form
a Cradle Roll Department, Go af
ter the Church Members and How
to Utilize the Extension Depart
ment. Other subjects treated by
these well known leaders were
“Seek the Last One in Every Age
Group” Attain and Maintain the
Standards of Excellence. Improve
the Use of the Six Point Record
System. Promote a Weekly Offi
cers and Teachers Meeting, Hold
More Workers training
Build and Use a Church Library,
Dr. Hurley spoke briefly on the
Vacation Bible School, How to or
ganize a New Sunday School and
Support the Sunday school Associ
ational Organization.
Dr. Hurley then Presented Rev.
sic is singing "in the .... bare so to
s mg Pf k ’ a " d ' S . ® d • JdJat a ndthe
Interstlng ^^I^neee^a^
must be petfect.
in hearsing reading the p "^ program ng ; which a .^ /■
made u P entirely of sacred music
This is one means of revealing
who ha\ e felt that this type of
taming. zz.
COVINGTON,
| L. W. Lyda, pastor of the Porter
^ale Baptist Church, who gave one
of thg finest talks on Sunday *
School work we have ever had de
| livered in the Association It is our
j belief that this inspiring message
w jjj |j e fruitful in building bigger
and beter Sundav schools.
Announcement was made j that
the State Sunday School Comen
tion would be held in LaGrange
on April 22 23. 24. All were uiged
to attend the School of Religious
Education at Bessie Tift <-o lle 8e
8 10n $
t h 6 L
Dr. alker , . Combs, Chairman .
Christian Index, lepoited tine Church pro
gress and urged every
member to have this wonderful
mvn own inspiration inspiration and and Tnformation information,
1 and for their children to reach
Mrs. Paul Austin announced A
Mission Study, Class “A Trail of
of the Seed” to be taught by Mrs.
Nobel Beal of the Home Mission
Board. This will be held at one
o’clock Atlanta time, February 27th
at Lithonia Baptist Church and all
in the Association are U ged to
attend.
Dr. Walker Combs, Pastor First
Baptist Church of Covington, and
Chairman One Hundred Thousand
Club made an urgent appeal for
each one to do their bit in this work
if it was only $1.00 per month. He
expressed his appreciation of the
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Inrnint lTlCOItl€ Tnv I aX /xgem Anvtlt
<?ity March IS
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For thg convenjence of those j
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wil be e made ^ for this service. The
matter of fi ng the above , .en in. j ;
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941
Pictured above are delegates and officials of the Stone
Sunday School Association meeting held Monday in Conyers at
First Baptist Church. A large number of delegates attended and
active part on the program during the day. The above picture
taken by the News Photographer on the steps of the church. In
lower picture is shown Mayor H. E. Griggs, former Baptist
School Superintendent of the Conyers Church, extending a
to Belmont Dennis, Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School
Covington. Others in the picture extending a welcome to the
are Pastor of the Convers Church A. D. Howard fleft) and Col.
las Mobley, Superintendent of the Sunday School at Conyers.
Agricultural News Oi
The Week As Told By
County AoentRlclMiullm
.
Experiments have shown
cotton seed treated with Ceresan
wiU give a lar 8 er Field per acre
due to the increased number of
p j an t s . This treatment kills seed
‘borne diseases and thus gives a bet
ter survival of plants. If you plan
*° tr eat your seed we would sug
gest that this be done now while
you are not busy. The barrel type
machine is alright for small quan
tities of seed This materia! is very
po i SO nous and care should be tak
: en not to breathe an excessa m ° un(
and the treated seed should be
kept aui G f reach of a u kinds of
livestOCk ’ ’
Some farmers in the county are
a j rea dy applying nitrate to their
sma]J g ra j n j s our opinion that
early Ucations are to be
f<j , ate app!ications and then
thls work can be goUen out °* the
way before the plowjng season op
ens up full blast.
Lespedeza seed continue to ad
vance in price. Be sure to save an
acreage of volunteer land for seed
purposes. If there was a fair growth
and a good stand on the land last
year you can harvest ,400 to 1000
pounds of seed per acre this year,
We would suggest removing all
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Thomas T. Kinney, fromer sports
editor of the News and well known
throughout the state for his writ
ings. will bring the morning mes
e Sunday morning at 11:30
o’clock at the Covington Mill
church. Mr. Kinney has entered
the Baptist ministry and is in de
Kin^/waTcalled to preach
assss
Nnrth r-nvinoion Austin Chanel
besides making several speeches,
His His speaking soeakine engagements engagements run far
Kj is w idelv read as
j, exn0( . tpd s sundav morning to
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Representative Of Civil
board
Confer With Officials
171.00
T
DRIVE
$12.00 More Than in 1940
And Slightly Less Than
Total in 1939.
The Infantile Paralysis Founda
tion drive has been brought to a
ciose. according to an announce
ment made by Belmont Dennis,
chairman for Newton County.
A total of $71.00 was collected
through the various agencies for
his worthy cause. This was
proximately $12.00 more than was
collected last year and slightly un
der the amount collected in 1939
Newton County gave $72.30 in
1939 and $59.34 in 1940. Those con
tributing to the fund this year are
I as follows:
| Kiwanis Club____ $20 00
j 1 Rotary Total from Club Boxes _____ 4 31
____
Postoffice employees ______10.00
Mrs. ^Tmx^Bankston ^ .. 1.00
Porterdale School _______ 3.12
Covington School ________ 9.12
Livingston School --------- 3.20
Starrsville School _ 1.75
Covington Mills School____ 4.06
Mansfield School ______ 6.59
Heard-Mixon School ____.
Total ...........
.
A check for this amount has
forwarded to Wiley L. Moore,
treasurer. Ellis Arnall was
chairman of the drive, H. T.
executive director, and Miss
j Starr secretary,
j Quimby Melton. chairman Editor of of the the
Griffin News, was
rocks and obstructions from the
field, apply at least 400 pounds of
Acid Phosphate per acre and if the
land is heavily infested with weeds
it may be advisable to plow and
harrow down smooth,
We have quite a few farmers to
enquire as to the time to seed les
P ede7 -a- This is a hard question to
a nswer. Lesp>edeza will come up
during ev ery warm spell coring the
! winter and as long as it has only
two i eaves it will stand light freez
eg gnd heavy frosts> but as soon
; as the third leaf is formed a light
f ros t will kill it. So the only safe
way to know you will get a stand
is to wait til danger of killing frost
1 is passed. As a rule lespedeza may
be safely seeded beginning around
the first day of March,
£very group of are or .
ganized into some close group that
them to fight for their
rights except the farmer and
especially the farmers of Georgia
and Florida. The Farm Bureau
Confederation is probably the
largest and strongest farm organi
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Registered Nurses in County
Get Questionnaires from U. S,
Registered nurses, active and
inactive in Newton County are
receiving this week questionnaires
that are being sent out /by The
Nursing Council on National De
fense. This effort, through the
U. S. Public Health Service, is be
ing made to secure as quickly as
possible a complete inventory of
all the nurses in the United States
reXd th<JSthU pro
“ rss=
the Eleventh District of the Geor
held in Athens last Wednesday
with 45 of the 131 registered mem
^ jn the district ln attendance
Mesdames W. O. Dorough and C
eri this meeting. District matings
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THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5c SINGLE COPY
Fourth District committee.
Rev. E. E. Wiley
p 0 j ar y Speaker
Reverend e. e. wuey, pastor of
the St. Elmo Methodist Church oi
Chattanooga, Tenr,., spoke at the
regular luncheon of fhe Rotary
Club last Tuesday. Mr. Wiley, who
is conducting a series of services
for the young people of Oxford,
was introduced by Guy Jones, who
had charge of the program for the
day. The message brought by the
young minister was inspiring and
helpful.
An announcement was made that
the ’Ladies Night' to be held in
celebration of the club’s second
anniversary will be a ‘Kids’ Par
ty’ and will be held early in
March. The club was organized
March 6th, 1939. The exact time
and place of this ’Ladies’ Night’
affair will be announced at the
meeting next week.
New members received into
membership in the club with ap
propriate ceremonies include
Gordon Robinson, Dr. Wm. Cook,
James Gardner, and Joe Heard.
Tom Hay, the club secretary, an
nounced that the attendance is still
maintaining a high average. Sam
Dietz was the only member absent
at the Tuesday meeting
| effort to enlist the cooperation of
all the nurses in this vital part ;
of the Defense Program of the
government.
The press has been advised to
urge all nurses whose names do
not appear officially on the Geor
gia Roster of Nurses to commun
icate with Daurice Dickerson, R.N,
Special Agent of the U. S. Public
State Nurses' Association, Repre
sentative for the National Survey
of Registered Nurses, Atlanta, so
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It was learned from the Nurs
mg Council On National Det Defense .,
nurses who have been inactive Mr
some time, and who wish to re
sume work, will be offered at hos
pitals throughout the country
this may also communicate with
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Number 8
New Air Route in Operation
Between Atlanta and
Savannah.
URGES CITY TO HAVE
FIELD LARGE ENOUGH
FOR BIG AIRLINER
Ceiling Higher in Covington
Than at Atlanta
Airport.
A representative of the Civil
Aeronautics Commission was in
the city Tuesday and held a con
: ference with the committee from
1 ^tary , club . , which ... is spon
i soring jointly with the Kiwams
I Club and other civic bodies a
project for an airport for Coving
ton.
, TT He pleased , , S the
ld f a ° locat, ." g an a,r P 3- in our
1 I city stating 4 it was an ideal , spot ,
| i due to its proximity to Atlanta
and the fact that Covington was on
: two through air routes at the pres
| em A ' route began operating
new
between Atlanta, Savannah and
Jacksonville during the past week.
This is in addition to the regular
[ which passes over Covington
Somg ^Augusta and Cha, les,on.
: stint on its ail P ol 't and recommend
e d ^at it be made large enough to
' vhlch 8° to ana' and 1 from**Atlantans from AUant a as
it may be used in case of emerg
ency due to the fact that Covington
ceiling is so much higher than At
lanta and on dark foggy days it
would be possible for these liners
.,. j 1° l and their . passengers in . Cov- _
ington instead of Atlanta,
There are no other airports near
Atlanta except Griffin and it is
not large enough to accommodate
these liners.
He stated if it was possible to
j get Emory-at-Oxtord to the install a
student’s flying course entire
cost of the project would be borne
by the National government under
the National Defense plan.
To do this it would be necessary
to get 20 students to enroll, half
of these may be male and half
female. If this plan is used the
entire project would be built with
WPA labor and all costs of ma
terial in building the hangar would
also be borne by the government.
If this plan is not followed the
airport can be built anyway if
the city and county would provide
25 percent of the cost, the govern
ment furnishing labor, etc., and the
balance of the cost of materials.
to The the city representative in few days will and return will 'j
a
meet with the committee again. In
the meantime the commitee wtll
investigate the various possibilities
of financing the project.
American Legion
Home Completed
March 7th has been set as the
tentative date when the American
Legion Community House will be
dedicated. Definite announcement
will be made at a later date.
The National Youth Administra
tion has turned the Community
House over to the American Legion
and made them permanent custo
dians. The House is to be used by
the entire community for any pur
pose for which it may be suited and
the public is cordially invited to
avail themselves of this opportuni
ty, according to a statement issued
by Moody Summers, post corn
mander.
A farewell party was given at
House last Frida F night for C -
Watkins, who superintended the
construction of the building.
Mr. Watkins was presented with
a suit of clothes, hat, shirt and tie
by a committee from the American
Legion as a testimony of their
appreciation for the splendid man
ner in which he completed his
task.
Katie Nell Roebuck
Hurt in Accident
Katie Nell Roebuck, well known
Covington youngster, was shS*it
ly injured Saturday afternoon
when she was struck down by a
fring at the home of her parents OB