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By THE OFFICE BOY
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Well, what do you know—the J
Office Boy is way out in Cali- -
fornia enjoying the Pacific breezes
—and Hitter earthquakes for the Office . . . Your Pinch j
Boy received ;
a card from him this week and.
after reading the message, we are 1
glad we are still in our dear old
home town . . . Here's what he !
says:
“Well, we've seen Stars, Holly
wood and everything else, but
your Office Boy and everybody
else put on a real show’ in the
hotel wee hours rocked this with A. M. when this | j
an earthquake
for we got out as wuz!—Pretty ■
place, but they can have it . . . 1
prefer . . . sweepin' up.”
So, I suppose the old faithful
Office Boy will be back next week
to do his own sweepin’ and it
won’t be too soon for any of us.
. . . The boss has been sick ever
since the old boy has been away
and, don't tell him, but I think |
he just misses the Office Boy. 1
never was much at sweepin’ and |
know that you readers agree that
this column is going down like the
Titanic if the real sweeper don’t
hurry up and come back to his
job . . . We all have something to j
look forward to though. I'll bet !
he will have plenty to tell us
about his trip to California and
those pretty movie stars we see
so often on the screen.
All us fellows at the News of
fice miss Bill, the son of the boss,
who has gone into the Navy to
help Uncle Sam . . . will Bill is in Nor- take j
folk, Va., now and soon ;
over his duties as printer. Nearly
every one of those big warships
have printers on them who do
work on the ship in printing or
ders. letters, etc. . . . This work
is vital to the efficiency of the
ship and we know that Bill will
be one of the best there is . . .
A. B., who is one of those men
who helps “Keep Them Flying”
in the Air Corps,'will arrive to
day and maybe the boss will be
feeling better . . .
The Office Boy has stated sev
eral times in his column that he
appreciates those letters from the
many boys in the forces of the
U. S. Army and Navy . . . Say.
fellows, how about helping us out
and every one of you sit down
right away and write the Office
Boy, care Covington News, and
tell him something about your
self . . . There are so many from
our county who have friends they
don't have time to write to . . .
And just about everybody in the
county is interested in you and
your effort for the greatest coun
try on earth . . . Those members
of the American Legion would like
to know what you are doing, too
—How about letting us hear from
you by next week . . . Even if you
have already written one letter—
write again today—
These letters will be reprinted
in the News and your friends—
some you have never thought of
—will answer these letters ....
We’ll just urge every person in
the county to answer each letter
you write to show their apprecia
tion of what you are doing . . .
You write us and we’ll write you
—How about that? You’ll be get
ting just lots of letters from men,
women and children — not men
tioning the young ladies you have
left back at home . . . We could
call just lots erf names who are
in our armed forces, but we won’t
do that now. We know how you
like to get letters from home—
One letter means lots — If one
means so much—think how much I
a big pile of letters would mean. | !
. . Don’t wait now—Come on,
.
you’ll make us happy and — I 11
bet we can make you happy too.
Well, until the Office Boy comes i
home, I’ll just be sorter foolin’
around making everybody think
I'm really
SWEEPIN’ UP.
Essay Contest Is
Announced At EAO
English classes at Emory Acad
emy and Junior College will com
pete for the best paper on ^ome
phase ot :hs alcohol problem, it
w–s annum* ed this week by Miss
Le*era Adams, cha ma: of the
Oxford W. C T. U Essay com
mittee.
Miss Adams said •he subject tor
the paper would be announced
Friday. Students will be given
until December 15th to prepare
papers for the contest.
“Much interest is being shown
in the program of the local W.
C. T. U. this fall,” said Miss
Adams, “and our Oxford chapter is
glad to offer valuable prizes for the
winning papers.”
Miss \dams said the contest
would als< t open to students of
Palmer-Stone school.
Volume 77
EARLY REPORTS INIICAii f RECORD ROLL CALL
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Farmers Receive $98,191 For Conservation Work
PAYMENTS MADE FOR PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAM
OF CONSERVATION FOR 1940; R0CKDAIE COUNTY
GETS TOTAL FOR STATE GIVEN AS $13,197,622
With Army On Field Maneuvers
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Lieutenant Charles A. Gannon, Jr., of this City, who is now
on tfield maneuvers with the United States Army in the Carolina
area, Bis expected here within the next few weeks for a visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cannon. Lieutenant Cannon
is serving with the 68th Armored Division, stationed at Fort
Jackson, S. C.
Covington Boy Will Represent Georgia I
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Tech In College Who's Who For 1941-42
Former Georgia
Congressman To
5peak In County
William D. Upshaw, former
Georgia _ congressman and . dry „
candidate for the presidency in the
1932 election, will fill a number
of speaking engagements in New
ton county during the early part
of December, he said last week,
whde voting in Covington.
On Monday, December 8, Mr.
Lfpshaw will speak at the Cov.ng
ton High School at 2.30 P. M.,
his subject being “Pluck,
anJ Patriotism.” The following
morning, Tuesday, December 9, at
10: 3 o o’clock, he will speak
Emory Junior College. The sub
j ec t f or b ; s t a ] k j s t be “Victorious
Student.”
On the same date he will ad
dress the members of the Coving
ton Rotary Club at their regular
weekly meeting at the Delaney
Hotel, taking as his subject,
“Rotarian Citizenship.” He will
also address a county-wide citizen
ship ally at the Court House at
7:30 Tuesday night, speaking on
"Georgia’s Part in America’s
Greatest Battle.”
The concluding address in the
(Continued on Page Nine).
Theme * AnnOUflCed
For Sun. Sermons
Rev. C- C. Hamilton will have
for his sermon text, “The Fxt*»r.t
of the Kingdom,” Sunday morring
the Presbyterian church,
Church school will be held at 10
(/dock
The sermon for the evening wor
ship service will be about “The
Lord'g Song in a Strange Land.”
The Men’s Fellowship suppet
will be held at the church tonigh*
at 7 o’clock. This is the last meet
until January and everyone is
urged to be present.
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Tb« Corington Star, J£st 1874.
Georgia Enterprise Eet. I–64.
William E. Garrison Is
Chosen For Outstanding
Qualifications During
School Career
William E. Garrison, a student
of Georgia Tech and son of Mr.
| | and selected Mrs. P. J. Garrison, of limited has been
as one a num
iber of students who will represent
,C ergia Tech in the 1941-42 edi
tion of « Who . g who Among Stu
dents in American Universities
'., nc j jolleges.”
In making the announcement, H.
id^thS'lSlr.“otrl's
; record whi , e jn hi h school
and before enterj ^ had
I consioerea. considered
The purpose of the book, he said,
was to serve a s an incentive for of j
students to get the most out
their college careers; as a means
of compensation to the students for
wtl at they have already accom
plished; as a standard of measure
! ment * or students and as a world. recom
mendation to the business
To be included in Who’s Who, a
student must have a combination
of outstanding qualities, indicat- i
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! in S tha * is a ' ea ° er among fel
low students and an asset to his
j school.
Good character is considered i
first of importance. The student’s 1
record is considered before enter
college, while he is in college
as well as his general reputation
among other students and mem
bers of the faculty.
Leadership in extra curricular
activities is also carefully consid
ered. These activities include:
athletics, society, religions, student
government and other activities,
c is also necessary that he be
'outstanding igi scholarship and his
potentialities, future usefulness to
j business and society are also care
fully considered
I More than 550 colleges and uni- :
1 versities are represented in
[publication listed and the 5,000 students
will comprise a cross-section
of the most outstanding personal!
ties in America’s educational cen
Iters.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA THURSD 5
Newton County Farms
Carried Out Numerous
Projects To Protect
And Improve Soil
Newton County farmers received
73 for participating m the
1940 government conservation pro
the Department of Agr.cul
announced this week. The
received in Georgia was
at $13,013,622.
Payments for the nation were
at $462,174,927. of which
went for national and
local administrative expenses. An
additional $2,114,574 expense item,
the announcement said, included
county association expenses, con
servation materials and services
advanced to co-operating farmers,
ETorida payments totaled $2,
935,182; South Caroline $9,539,468;
Tennessee $9,400,124 and Alabama
$13,197,802.
Adjoining counties received pay
ments as follows; Butts, $60,671.45;
Henry, $148,387.07; Jasper, $55,-
791.17; Morgan, $120,302.83; Rock
dale, $49,254.86; Walton, $182,-
784 39; DeKalb, $43,857.77, and
Gwinnett, $157,818.58.
Total payments already made to
Georgia farmers, together with es
timates of those remaining to be
made, under the 1940 parity pay
ment program of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration
amounted to $8,630,138.63 as of
June if) the Depa inuent also /n
nou nre<rWHve«k.
For the nation as a whole, pay
ments totaled $210,003,151.
The parity payments, made to
adjust the difference between ae
tual and parity prices, were made
Georgia producers of cotton and
wheat who pai l iripaled in the
1940 AAA farm program.
At the same time, farmers par
ticipate in the 1940 Agricultural
Conservation program carried out
practices designed to protect and
improve many thousands of acres
of Georgia cropland. These in
cluded:
New seedings (including annual
and perennial legumes and gras
ses), 487,637 acres; green manure
and cover crops (summer and win
ter cover crops and cover crops left
on land), 2,086,401 acres; erosion
control practices, 2,032 acres; ter
racing, 15,693,000 linear feet; fer
tilizer and lime applications, lime
stone, 83,700 tons, and 16 per cent
superphosphate of its equivalent,
32,144 tons; and forest tree prac
tices (including planting trees.
maintaining and improving stands,
, nd rehabilitating damaged wood
j anc | S ) 42 917 acres.
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Of HOflOr GrOUp
J. B. Burch, a member of the
senior class at Mercer university,
at Macon, was recently initiated
by Kappa Phi Kappa, national
educational fraternity, at a cere
mony held on the Mercer campus.
W. W. DENNIS, SON OF PUBLISHER, ENTERS THE NAVY
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who last week entered the Naval
Reserves as a Second Class Petty
Officer, rated as a Second Class
Printer. At the present time he
is at the Naval Training Station at
Va. After a quarantine
period he will be assigned to
land station, or will join a ship
ot the fleet. He left the employ
ment of the Covington News to
the Navy service.
R 20, 1941. 5c SINGLE COPY
On Leave From Navy Air Corps
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A. B. Dernis, Jr„ son of Publisher Belmont Dennis, who ar
triveri in the, City today for d week's leave from the Naval Air
Base at Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Dennis, who' enlisted in the Air
Corps some time ago, has completed the first 85 hours of training
and recently completed the necessary acrobatic training.
$113,116 Paid By Farmers In Newton
Countv For Hired Labor During 1939
Home Guards Will
Go On Field Trip
Captain ,, . . J. T B. t, Weaver urges that
all ii members . of , State Guard ,,, „ , Unit
Number 59 be present at the
American Legion building tonight
at 7 :30. If is of extreme import
ance that each man having a rifle
in his possession to bring it along.
Intensive training for the next
few weeks will be in order to pre
pare for the maneuvers early in
December, Also, the number of
new members will make possible
the forming a new unit to be oul
fitted in the same manner as the
one now operating. There is st ii
room for a few young men 0 f
sound health who would like to
enlist in a military organization,
Captain Weaver sa.d.
If the weather remains clear
there will be plenty of outside
work. It is still necessary to use
(Continued on Page Nine).
William W. Dennis, son of Pub
lisher Belmont Dennis, is now
serving with the United States
Naval Reserves, being enlisted at
the Macon Recruiting Station last
week, as second class printer, with
the rank of Second Class Petty of
ficer, a rank corresponding with
that of an army sergeant.
Mi. Dennis, known to a wide
circle of friends here as ‘‘Bill,” is
now at the Naval Training Station
at Norfolk, Va., where he is un
dergoing a serie,. of physical tests
and innoculations before being as
signed to active duty at a land
station or a battleship of the fleet.
For the past few years he has
been employed on the mechanical
staff of the Covington News. He
is a graduate of the Southern
‘School of Printing and ha had a
number of years experience in the
printing trade,
This is not his first military ex
' perience, having for
served sev
years with a detachment of
i the Tennessee National Guard. He
was sworn into the Navy by Lieut.
Stanley Jones chief recruiting of
ificer at the Macon sution.
OVER $400.00 IS RAISED IN CITY
AREA ON FIRST DAY OF DRIVE;
RURAL AREAS WILL REPORT LATER
AGRICULTURAL
NEWS BY THE
COUNTY AGENT
t ,000 Acres is Set As
Newton County’s Goal
For Peanuts; Cotton
Referendum Dec. 13
Today 1 received an article
a
machinery. The article stated that
th government has indicated that
there will not be a shortage of
'•pair ' parts if the needs are known
.
If the suggestions offered below
are followed you will get more
service out of your farm machln
ery.
1. Store machinery under cover.
2. When storing the mowing ma
chine, remove the sickle, grease it,
and order new sections if any are
broken or missing. Straighten
bent, tighten loose, and replace
broken guards, block up mower,
am’ support the long tongue on
a block to keep it straight. Older
repair parts now.
3. After harvest, take off and
store binder and combine can
vases In a dry place safe from
Repair or replace torn or worn
slots and canvas straps. Give
sickle same care a« given to mow
e,\ Grease and oil knotter,
straighten bent or sprung par^s,
and replace broken and worn parts
that look as though they may not
last through next harvest. Order
repair parts now.
Report Reveals More
Than $260,000 Spent
For Purchasing Farm
Equipment
Newton County fanners paid
out a total of $113,116 ’ for hired
labor , on (arms . during , . the . year of ,
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1939, a report, made available , lor
the first time this week, reveals.
The report, prepared by the
Bureau of Census, of the United |
SUitea Depat tment of Commerce,
;JS a P art °* l * 1e sixteenth census
of the United States, shows that
Newon County (arms paid out
'his amount during 1939. This
’°' a ' f° r cas h P a 'd for hired
labor and does not include funds
for household employees, or for
contracted construction work.
Neither is allowance made for
room, board, clothing or similar
items that are often included in
farm wages.
One hundred and forty-one
farms reported hiring labor on a
monthly basis, paying a total of
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Chief Recruiter
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Mi l T. STANLEY JONES
who is making an nulstanding re
s cord a ifficer in Charge of the
Macon Navy ecruiting station,
having charge of the States of
Georgia and Florida, Under his
guidance, 3,100 rsen have been
j listed in the Navy in the
length of time formerly required
! to enlist 300 An all-time national
[record of enlistments, 312 in a
isingle day, was also made lecently.
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
NUMBER 47
Many Other* Expected
To Join; Campaign At
Porterdale Planned
For Today
Preliminary reports from the
Newton County Chapter of the
American Red Cross in its annual
drive for members indicate that
the citizens of the County are giv
riK p 1P R ed Cross its greatest
peace-time support in history, it
was announced this week by A. L.
Loyd, chairman of the local chap
ter.
Chairman Loyd based his state
™ m the first pa day of ~ the campaign r
* hel > more than $400 was col
The, rural sections of the coun
ty and the other large communi
ties have not yet reported hut it
is expected that a marked increase
over last year's figure will be seen.
The campaign in Porterdale got
underway today and early indica
tions point to a record number of
renewal memberships and a large
number of new members.
Numerous persons if the City
d ; d no t j,ave an opportunity to
j oin thp m0V ement and they art
requested to call at the Chairman's
offlt , 6 it , the Court House, or to
contact any Red Cross worker,
“Last yaar more than 9,000,000
i adult Americans gave their support
j lo thp bers,” Ked Chairman eras* by Loyd becoming
, nem said.
“This year an appeal has been is
sued for a membership comparable
to that of the first World War
(Continued on Page Nine.)
Workers Af P'dale
i Have Vital Part In
Defense Program
Every Bibb worker in Porterdale
h-s a right to glow with pride
every time he looks aloft to see
one of the many gigantic defense
planes which weave across Amer
ican skies today, The steady
droning roar of the motors singing
a song of power in defense might
j fail in the future times of greatest
emergency were it not for duck
made right in the Osprey mill at
| Porterdale.
One of the problems in connec
| lion with air defense is proper
shelter for aircraft motors while
they flre be overhauled or re _
under condition , which do
make „ po . s „ 51p to get back
to the headquarl er S hangars. * The
ep o{ the Untted Sl teg Army
mr corpg to thls problem js ,
portable aircraft shelter called *
panzer hangar.” It has a frame
I work of tubular steel with a cov
j ering of duck made in the Osprey
i mill which has been specially
i treated to make it gasoline proof,
! oil proof, water proof, wind proof,
I i and dust proof. It is a giant “nose
bag” contraption large enough to
cover completely the nose of «
large plane, with protecting wmgs
that stretch out under the wing;
(Continued on Page Nine).
j Debate Speakers At
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Speakers for the fall quarter
debate between Phi Gamma and
Few, Emory at Oxford literary so
cieties, were named this week. The
selectin' was made after competi
tive tryouts.
Harlan Johnston, Rome, and
Forrest Beari, Sandersville, will
; represent Phi Gamma on the af
\ firmative; B. J. Mayer, LaGrange,
'and Maurice Christian, Chatta
nooga, will speak for Few on the
negative. The oratorical b*ttle is
scheduled for Dec. 12, in the col
chapel at 11 o’clock.
The societies this quarter chose
the following subject: Resolved,
That the Federal government
houid regulate by law all labor
unions in the United States.
4. Clean plows, grease
parts or cover them with old
crankcase oil. See that scrapes
and scooters are sharp and if your
supply is low order additional jnes
now.
5. Check hoes, rakes, shovels
and other hand tools, and if the
handles are broken, replace at ear
convenience.
fi. Be sure that your tractor is
(Continued on Page Nine).
Covington Woman
Pleads For Farm Bill
The House Agriculture Commit
tee’s search for ways to keep coun
try boys and girls on the farm
brought testimony from witnesses
Monday that that objec ive ^
being achieved by 4-H dubs and
that idditional federal funds were
urgently needed.
The testimony was given by 4-H
club members, former 4-H mem
bers and leaders at. a hearing on
a House bill which would authorize
appropriations of $6,000,000 for the
1942 fiscal year for 4-H and other
similar club work, $8,000,000 for
1943, $12,000,000 for 1944,
000,000 for 1945, $20,000,000 for
1946 and $24,000,000 for each year
thereafter.
Mrs. Homer Cook, Covington,
Ga., president of the State Home
Demonstration Council of Georgia,
which she said represented 39,000
club-women of her state, recom
mpnded passage of the bill.
“The work that is being done by
the 4 -H elwbs is contributing vi
tally to the development of leader -
a 'l- in religious, social and
tional life, and is of incalculable
value in the fields of agriculture
and home economics,” she said.
Three Newton Men
NOW At Fort Brdgg
Inducted into the Army at Fort
MvPherson. Privates Howell P
Anderson, Otis D. Hay and How
ard U. Chaffin, all of Newton
county, recently were sent •« the
Field Artillery Replacement Tram
center at F< rt Bragg, N. C., for
training,
All three were accepted from
the Newton County local Selective
Service Board tor induction inio
the regular Army.