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THt OFFICE BOY J
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Wha week we had! Mr.
tleadorSi the Sweetheart of
Coun'.y, took the Boss and
iBoy to the State Reunion
rans with him at the Old
Home near Atlanta. Un
e ” cam.' home feeling “as
fldche” but you can bet
bttom dollar he had walk
Boss and the Office Boy
hvn , and we did not
ay up at night. However,
"Uncle Rufe” told us
,tied until he should nearly cried
[ght and we have
re. "What happened,’’ we
in. “Why, we had a
Imagine that! And all of
ere over 93 years old. Well,
ted 10 know, “Who did you
,ith?' Getting jealous you
, no, I didn't dance. “Well,
is SO funny that you almost
"Them old men dancing
em fat women!” So girls,
y say what you please . . .
oys don’t get too old to
he extra poundage you put
„ you lose your girlish fig
e must start walking more,
jot all, Mr. Meadors came
,jth the cake! He was the
l picture there . . . and not
a t he was elected Brigade
nder of the East Central
I. Yes, Siree! He’s a State
of the U. D. C. Our hats
to him! You had better
out and congratulating
. for we are all mighty
if this.
me home and went to Sun
hool Sunday morning to
happy group of young
eir lesson . . . rushed on
play “Fairy Godmother”
shadows) at the Presby
jhurch, to our child , . .
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iriais Ban Is
loo Severe, says
ilor Campbell
(a! restrictions on the use
lied “critical materials” in
jction of buildings and
need not be as severe as
(link. State Senator R. Pat
(11. of Covington, said this
j amounts of ‘critical ma
| needed for residential
ks are amazingly small, and
(nporanly scarce,” he said,
(nment officials, he added,
jve to the need for good
| as a prerequisite to good
defense, and other indus
lew,” he said, “of the social
rnomic values of adequate
. a way must be found to
vailable for home building
y small quantities of the
irily scarce materials
The restrictions imposed
rious threat to many of the
0 persons employed and
0,000 business establish
lupported by the building
restricted materials
ipper, brass, bronze and
r J -
of the specific items which
rhich winTe curtailed^by
1 order, are:
heaters, stoves, ranges,
\ trays, nails, tacks, vases,
bowls, wastebaskets,
umidors, jewelry, perfume
rs, bar fittings, bookends,
C containers, lighters, nap-
8?. picture frames, souve*
exes, cans, jars, chimes,
mdirons, screens, candle
curtain rods, buckles, but
letal cloths, radios, signs,
Pens, desk accessories, of
Ipplies. statues, sundials,
eathervanes, letter boxes,
's and heating
helves, screenings, screws,
terazzo strips, wea
r ‘PPing and insulation.
Wa Bovs Wins
test At E. A. O.
Ie annua l freshman “take
lnte st at Emory-at-Oxford
William Corley, of
w °n first place with his
‘nation of a peanut poli
iSevemor appealing for
[i Lehman, Langdale, Ala.,
Place in the spirited
knded as a representative of the
|Brockman, professor,” and
Athens, clinch
d P'ace winner with his
Fticn han. of Hercules, the
NOTICE
r s n “" open for collection
p [ County and Intangi
x for the vear 1941.
r 1 ' *1 VV, Tax Collector
I NcwtQn County
Ii- o doDingtoir
Volume 77
LEGION FAIR IS DRAWING RECORD CROWDS
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“Trade At Home” Campaign Opens In County
MERCHANTS 10
ADVERTISE BIG
BUYING VALUES
Many Advantages Are
Offered For Trading
With Local Business
Establishments
Business establishments of Cov
ington began a drive this week
to prove that “Trading at Home”
will save the people of Newton
County money and at the same
time give us all a better place in
which to live.
The success of any county de
pends entirely upon the progress
ot the business men in the county.
Few people would ever come into
a city or town where there was no
business or where everyone went
somewhere else to trade. A thriv
ing town will draw new citizens
and will assure the people therein
j a better living and greater happi
ness. New business moves into the
growing city and more people are
employed.
Covington is a growing city be
cause a large number of the peo
ple trade at home. Some, how
ever, go to nearby cities to do all
their buying because they feel that
they will save a few dollars. Cost
of the two way trip is not consid
ered and' the time it takes to go
elsewhere is neglected. Covington,
today, is a greater city than ever
Defore and many merchants have
just about everything to offer that
can be found in any large city. The
few things that merchants do not
have here can be ordered for you
by them at the same price or less
than you can secure this item else
where.
The merchants of Covington try
to keep all their prices within rea
son, but figure in a small profit.
Stores in other larger cities may
have one item figured at below
cost in order to draw trade from
distant points; but they ‘clean up”
on other items that they usually
sell those who come in. In the
end the customer is no better off
and is out the cost of gasoline
and oil.
Almost daily the merchants are
called upon to contribute to some
worthy cause. The merchants
gladly respond, but expect your
patronage in return. Local mer
chants have money invested in
nearly every worthwhile enter
prise throughout Newton Coun
ty. They are the first called upon
I for help from individuals and
Local merchants , bear a
j j groups. part of the taxes which
greater children
pay for schooling of your
(Continued on Page Nine.)
j T() EuilOI
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j of the the
j News war,
series and football games
second r ace when the men serv
\ ing with the armed forces ppportuni- of the
United States have an
ty to read their hometown news
paper, Lieut. James W. Lassitei
states in a letter received
week by the Editor of the News.
A second letter
a private serving in the State of
Wyoming takes full advantage of
the privilege granted men in a
democratic army and pours wrath
on the army, its officers and its
practices. Lassiter, serving at the
Lieut Field,
Mobile Air Depot, Brookley
Mobile, Ala., says hometown
newspap er subscriptions for men
- n service W ould solve the problem
, | fpep i n g army morale at a high
oint letter is
The f u u text of his
rjnted below: paper’ fol
“If every " ‘home town
° DO ii cy with regards
' in the army, I think the
Uf , , f beeping £ the morale of
"
r fy hi would be a com
P arative simple matter.
J „ r ®f" voach for the interest
, with which ch news of the ‘folks back
.
h world °Ta ser s - or Tootball games
«•* C"”™, S " 0 t„XxpXicnce extent, I can
say that it P > to come
t.'KJ X ’rS™rSS ( . ause d 5 by
S perhaps lack of
30- <0 hours and
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Th * Covington Star, Bat. 1874.
Georgia Enterprise, Kst. 18<W.
Sabotage Suspected In Carnival Train Wreck Near Adamsville
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Dramatic photograph of the wrecked locomotive of a com
bination passenger-freight train of the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Coast Railroad which plunged from the rails at Brownlee road,
in Adamsviile, Sunday night, hurting the engineer and fireman.
A partly flattened iron rod, five inches long, with a bolt on either
end. was found near the scene, causing officials to pursue the
possibility - of sabotage. Engineer Paul C. Reppard was in Emory
Heavy Volume Of
Telephone Business
Is Reported Here
118 Percent Increase Is
Noted In Local Calls;
Long Distant Calls Up
132 Percent
Because of rapidly accelerating
demands for telephore service due
to defense and general business ac
tivity, Covington’s telephone fa
cilities an^ working forces are op
erating under the heaviest volume
of calls ever experienced by the
local system.
More telephones are in opera
tion here than ever before. Cov
ington residents are making -mre
local and long distance calls per
telephone than at any time in his
tory, R. M. Sealey, telephone com
pany local manager, revealed to
day.
The number of telephones here
has increased from 499 to 647, or
"2 per cent, since January, 1939.
I Local calls have 2,816 increased daily to 6,140 trom
j an average of
j —a Long rise distance of 118 per calls ' nt have risen
| from an average 132 of 98 cent, daily to
i 228—a boost of per
j The average telephone in Cov
ing t 0 n now : s used 41 per cent
more times daily than it was in
1939-or 7 times daily.
The figures spotlight the fact
that although the number of tele
phones serving Covington has in
creased rapidly, the increase in
loca i an d long distance traffic and
in ca n s per telephones has been
even ,-nore pronounced.
*‘j n s pite of our ‘all-out eftorts,
telephone facilities are operating
at near capacity during some pe
riods In the future this situ
ation may result in some calls not
being completed as quickly as be
fore the defense emergency,” Mr.
Sealey said.
“If this situation does arise and
you encounter a delay on one of
your calls, we hope you will be
patient, knowing that every ef
(Continued on Page Nine.)
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Damaged If!
Warehouse BlaZC
Fire m a cotton storage t ware ware _
house on Plne Street m Porter
dale last night did small damage
to a number of bales of cotton,
property of the Bibb Manufaetur
ing Company pormpt
Early discovery and ac
. on on .h. Pan of the
date f l,; U.he
| the spread . of i tlamcs
COVINGTON, GEORG,
hospital in recorded “good” condition, but the Negro fireman,
Sam Jones, was said at Grady Hospital to be burned severely.
Three of the cars being pulled by the locomotive were carrying
equipment owned by the L. J. Heth Shows whose carnival is
playing at the Newton County Fair this week. The wreck de
layed the arrival of the carnival, making it necessary to post
pone the opening of the fair until Tuesday.—Staff Photo by Bill
Mason, Courtesy of the Atlanta Constitution.
MEMBERS FOR SCHOOLBOY PATROLS
ANNOUNCED FOR THREE SCHOOLS
Brick Store Plans
Conference Sat.
The fourth quarterly confer
ence of the North Covington side
of the Newton Circuit will open
at t he Mt. Pleasant Methodist
Church, in the Brick Store Com
munity, Saturday morning at 11
o’clock, with Rev. T. M. Sullivan,
district superintenent, delivering
the opening sermon.
Dinner will be served on the
grounds at the noon hour and the
business session of the conference
is scheduled for Saturday t after
noon.
This is the first year that the
North Covington charge has func
tioned under the present organ
ization. It is composed of
North Methodist Church, Mt.
Pleasant Church, the Alcovey
Church and the Mt. Tabor Church.
The pastor for the churches,
Rev. Jack Nichols, reports much
progress by the four churches in
the charge during the past year.
A total of 49 new members have
(Continued on Page Nine.)
REAUZATIOK OF LIFE'S DREAM HEADS COMPLETION
AS CONOR® CONSIDERS LII'DER'S PARITY PLAN
Agriculture Commissioner Appears
At Committee Price Fixing Hearings
The lifetime dream of Tom Lin- 1
der, Georgia's Commissioner of I
Agriculture approached nearer |
gress iealization^as^the ^ consider t p e
„ Lmder Plan” Plan, which wmen will w pro- v
rity f0r the farmer and and will j
^ ^ ^ reac hi n g rev
“ u ( farm program that the
has e ver known
Linder appeared before the
Committee Td in Washington recent
W J[ d created a national *ensa
Qn ^ hen he took issue with Leon
Henderson’s Hend P price control bill, and
-
Straus and H enry
Morgenthau Jr.,^ f attem atte pting to
drive than to aid
' a™ pr^«a”“" adopted
T Tt,„ ® “Lind-r Plan' ’n
Memphis ■ m a .mist bv the S u’h- “„2
Association provides true par,.y,
URSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
Patrolmen Named At
Covington, Mansfield
And Porterdale;
Captains Are Selected
W. E. Lee, member of the Geor
gia State Highway Patrol, was in
the County last week organizing
safety patrols at the various
schools in the County.
This week he announced the
complete list for e Covington
High School, the Porterdale High
School and the Mansfield Junior
High School. James Edward
Gates will serve as captain of the
Porterdale group, while Burt
Vardeman will head the Coving
ton patrol and Milton Harrell the
group at Mansfield.
The schoolboy patrolmen will
,-ide the school busses leaving and
arriving at the schools, reporting
j traffic violations made by motor
j s t s along the school bus route and
making every effort to safeguard
0 ther school children. They will
a j s0 be stationed at street inter
sections to handle the flow
traffic and aid children in cross
ing the streets.
Mr. Lee announced that
management of the motion
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which is something that th„e Amer
ican farmer has never been able
to obtain before.
The Banking and
Committee, which has before
now the price control bill, was
literally thr0 wn into a “stew”
when Lmder pointed out the glar
ing facts of the price control oil!
and brought to light what effect
it would have on the farm
omy. Linder told the Committee
that it was not right to fix
for industrial labor and it was not
right to fix prices for agricultur
al labor. Linder said that mere
was only Y one road for the con
^ of p ces; that road> he said,
was the fixing of a ratio between
aericnltoral product, and brda
mat products and let labor take
-are « "gaining of itself
this pari.,
gram and bow it would
COVINGTON SCHOOL AWARDED FIRS1
PRIZE FOR EXHIBIT; OPENING IS
DELAYED BY CARNIVAL TRAIN WRECK
SABOTAGE CLUE
FOUND IN WRECK
OF A.B.C. TRAIN
Engineer and Fireman
In juried In Crash;
Opening of Fair Is
Delayed
Fulton County police and rail
road detectives this week were in
vestigating possibilities that sabo
tage or some other form of foul
play caused the wreck of a com
bination passenger and freight
train that seriously injured two
trainmen when it left the track
Sunday night at the Brownlee
Road crossing in Adamsviile.
Three of the cars were loaded
with equipment belonging to the
L. J. Heth Shows which was
scheduled to open here Monday
at the Newton County Fair. While
the carnival equipment was not
greatly damaged the wreck de
layed the arrival of the show in
Covington until about noon Tues
day.
AGRICULTURAL
NEWS BY THE
COUNTY AGENT
Certificates Are Being
Awarded To Listeners
Of 4-H Quiz Program
Over Station WSB
Certificates are being awarded
to members of 4-H clubs through
out the country who listen to the
weekly 4-H quiz programs con
ducted by the Agricultural Exten
sion over WSB beginning at 6:10
A. M. According to G. V. Cun
ningham, state 4-H club leader,
there are about 350,000 boys and
girls and adults who listen to this
program every Saturday morning.
Members of Georgia 4-H clubs
participate on the program each
Saturday,
If a border of shrubs and her
baceous plants is maintained along
t p e WO odland, the encroachment
o{ tree roots j n t 0 cropland is much
[ ess extensive. Crops do not have
to compete with the trees. There
( ore maintaining such a border is
good management in forestry,
j agronomy, and erosion control,
Furthermore, it is good wildlife
management.
prices of labor and its products,
Linder went back to 1910 and!
quoted the amount of wages re- j
ceived by non-farmers and the
prices paid for industrial prod
ucts, and the amount of income re
ceived by the farmer and the price
he paid for industrial products.
Linder pointed out that in 1910
people living on farms received
an income of $139 each. In 1940,
ae said, farmers received $161
; each or an increase of only $22
over a period of thirty years.
On the other hand, Linder said
non-farmer received in
$482, and in 1940 these same per
™s received -00 each, or_an in
r '>‘ ease $ 18 a§ aln st a $2- m
crease of those living on farms
Linder also cited to the Commit
tee the difference in prices for in
dustrial products in 1910 and
mt. Every figure cited by th.
Commissioner revealed all
i learly what a beating the farmer
bad taken in the thirty year pe
(Continued on Page Nine.)
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5c SINGLE COPY
Fulton County Policeman Gus
Cannon reported that he found an
iron rod five inches long, with a
bolt screwed on either end, near
where the locomotive and the
three front rfeight cars of the
Atlanta, Birmingham – Coast
train No. 2 was derailed. He said
the bar was badly mashed, as
though it had been run over by
wheels of the train.
The officer turned the bar over
to the train conductor. He said
the conductor expressed the opin
ion the iron piece “undoubtedly”
was responsible for the wreck.
The engineer, Paul C. Reppard,
of Fitzgerald, was reported in
“good condition” Monday by at
tendants at Emory University
Hospital. He suffered bruises and
burns in the wreck. Hospital at
taches said he apparently has an
excellent chance of recovery.
The condition of the fireman
was not so good. He is Sam
Jones, Negro, also of Fitzgerald.
Grady Hospital authorities said
his condition was “poor,” and Ibat
(Continued on Page Nine.)
2 Covington Scouts
Make 50 Mile Trip
Fifty miles on bicycles is the
record of two Covington Boy
Scouts, who last week made the
trip as part of the requirements
for a cycling merit badge.
The two Scouts, Grady Hawkins,
scribe for Troop Number 73, and
Eugene Patrick, left Covington last
Friday morning about 6 o’clock
and one hour and fifteen minutes
later they were in Conyers.
Passing on through Lithonia, the
two Scouts stopped at the scene
of an automobile wreck. They ar
rived at Stone Mountain, at 9:30
o’clock, two and one-half hours
after leaving Covington. They
went to the top of the mountain
and remained for about one and
one-half hours.
They then started on their re
turn trip and arrived back in Cov
ington about 2 o’clock Friday aft
ernoon. J. W. Nichols is Scout
I master of Troop 73.
vy *egl*0 Dwelling ni®/£kll5r»<r
s Damaged ** By * Fire
A fire of undetermined origin
last Monday morning caused con
siderable damage to a negro dwell
ing , located in the northern sec
non of the city about one block
off Emory Street.
The interior of the structure,
wh ich was occupied by two ne
gr0 families , was ablaze when
members of the fire department
I ,„, ved an „ , tl „ hampered
, hem extinguishing the names
However, it was brought under
, minimum dam
age, considering the condition,.
NUMBER 43
Race Finals Scheduled
This Afternoon; Will
Judge Livestock Entries
Tomorrow
Delayed by the late arrival of
the carnival, the 1941 Newton
County Fair, sponsored by th®
Newton County Post No. 32 of th®
American Legion, was well un
derway Tuesday night with a rec
ord attendance.
Exhibits surpassing those of
previous years filled the exhibit
halls and tents, as do the livestock
entries. In every department out
standing material is on display and
the people of this section are be
ing given an opportunity excellent to se®
for themselves the ag
ricultural, industrial and educa
tional advantages of Newton Coun
ty.
Yesterday was School Day and
the grounds were thronged with
school children from all sections
of the County, the schools having
closed for a half holiday. The ex
hibit entered by the Covington
Schools was awarded first place of
$35, with Starrsville taking sec
ond place, winning $25. The third
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Carnival Man Is
Killed Here When
Crushed By Truck
William F. Bishop, an employe®
of the L. J. Heth Shows, whos*
carnival is showing this week at
the Newton County Fair, wai
critically injured Sunday night
when a truck passed over hij
body, and died a few minutes aft
er being taken to Huson Hospi
tal.
According to witnesses, Mr.
Bishop laid down under a truck
to sleep for the night. The driv
er of the truck, not aware of the
man being under the truck, start
ed to move the location of the
truck to a permanent site for the
remainder of the week. One of
the wheels passed over Mr. Bish
op’s body.
A coroner's jury assembled at
the fair grounds Monday morn
ing and after hearing evidence
stated that the accident was un
avoidable. No charges were pre
ferred against the driver of th®
truck.
A native pf Alabama, Mr. Bish
op was 31 years old. His home
was listed as Marietta, Ga. He
is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Katie Martin, of Chattanooga,
Tenn.: two brothers, Bob Bishop,
of Marietta, and Tom Bishop, of
Bremen, Ga. The News extends
sympathy to the members of the
bereaved family.
To Install Pastor
At Pres. Church Sun.
Installation sendee for Rev. C.
C. Hamilton, new minister of the
Covington Presbyterian Church,
will be held next Sunday night
at 7:30 o’clock. A similar instal
lation will be held Sunday aft
ernoon at the Bethany Church at
3 o’clock.
Rev. Hamilton, who serves as
pastor for both churches, recent
ly moved to Covington, with his
wife, after serving at the St. An
drews Presbyterian Church In
Charlotte, N. C., for a number
of years. He is a native Georgian.
The pastor will preach the reg
ular worship service Sunday
morning, his subject text being
“Crises in Life.” which will deal
with the “whys” of the present
world war and other critical sit
uations that we face in life. Church
School will be held at 10 o’clock.
Rev. F. C. Talmadge will pre
side over the installation services,
the sermon being preached by Dr.
Ferguson Wood. Dr. Sistar will
charge the new minister of the
church and Dr. Sidney Gates, for
pastor, will charge the church
, members. ± A. King will com
the commission.