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All Aboard! We’ll take that
trip out West together. Five
o’clock in the morning we have to
get up to catch that train in At
’anta! Off we go with the Boss,
for he never likes to wait more
than an hour for the train . . .
upon reaching the station we find
Mrs. Quentin Gregory and Mrs.
Parker, of North Carolina, headed
for Los Angeles U. D. C. con
vention too. Were we glad to see
them, and especially Mrs. Gregory,
who is a past State Historian and
who sent us one of her fine books.
She is now serving North Caro
lina as 3rd vice-president and
Director of the C. of C. In a
few minutes in came Mr. and Mrs.
J. Lawrence McCord, Clinton and
Mary, their grown up chillun, with
little Laura to see them off. Mrs.
McCord was our traveling com
panion, and is, by the way, the
newly elected Division president
of U. D. C. She will make a fine
record for Georgia during the
next two years . . . not only
because of her own fine work, but
because she is a person every
daughter loves and who will work
very hard to see that Georgia goes
over the top this year for her . . .
They shout something loud . . .
there is a lump £°ur in my throat . . .
let me see tickets please . . .
and before we know it we were
rushed right through that gate and
the boss was on the other side . . .
we got on the train and they set
tled our bags a round us ... no
we couldn't even wave goodbye
. . and that’s the first time we
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MAYOR 1 WAITES A»^P. W. PRATT RE-ELECTED
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Plan 77th Annual Chrismas Edition Next Week
ever left the Boss . . . there was a
lump in our tbiroat as big as an
apple . . . and it was beginning to
ache ... I felt of it . . . surely
people were noticing it bulging
out for I knew it was choking me
to death . . . Katherine McCord
kept saying something about the
pretty hills, etc., in Alabama . . .
and fore goodness, I never saw
airy bit of that country ... I
could not tell you which way I
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Six Students Will
Represent EAO At
Ga. Debate Forum
Six Emory at Oxford studepts
were selected this week to repre
sent their college in the Georgia
Debate Forum to "be held Satur
day morning in Milledgeville at
the Georgia State College for
Women. The speakers were chos
en after competitive tryouts be
fore a faculty judging committee.
The following will debate for
Emory Junior College; Julius
Napoles, Key West, Fla.; Robert
Shinall, Rome; Frances Preston,
Auburndale, Fla.; John Cobb,
Newnan; Williard Grant, West
Hartford, Conn.; and Paul Wil
cox, Atlantic Beach, Fla.
Debaters from more than 20
Georgia Colleges and universities
will take part in the annual forum
Saturday, The Emory speakers
will be accompanied to Milledge
ville by Professor Marion Clarke,
head of the chemistry department.
Eleven outstanding Emory at
Oxford football players were also
named this week members of the
Lettermen's Club, varsity athletic
group, it was announced by Pro
fessor Edwin J. Brown director of
physical education.
The men chosen today were
picked by a committee who select
ed them from 52 players compos
ing the three Emory Junior Col
lege football teams. Election to
the Lettermen's Club is a coveted
honor on the Emory campus.
Named today were: Dudley
Fitts, Atlanta; Jack Hightower,
Jacksonville, Fla.;; Frank Padg
ett, Baxley; Eugene Spier, La
Grance; Garland Godwin, Raiford,
Fla,: W. L. Norton, Gainesville;
Edwin Miller, Calhoun: Hugh
Swint, West Point; Gid Parrish,
Ocala, Fla.; Edwin Tanner, Bald
win, Fla.’, and John Webb, Or
lando, Fla.
NOTICE
Pay your state and county taxes
ow. Books close December 20th.
ost rnd interest after this date
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SPECIAL EDITION WILL BE PRINTED
IN CHRISTMAS COLORS; LETTERS TO
SANTA CLAUS WILL BE PUBLISHED
Covington Merchant* To
Advertise Bargains In
Shoppers Edition For
Every Individual
The Covington News annual
Seventy-seventh Christmas Edit
ion will be published next week
with a complete display of gifts
for every member of the family
as well as numerous articles and
pictures of unusual interest at this
time.
All children, wishing to have
their letters reach Old Santa Claus
at the North Pole through the
columns of the News, are urged
to write their letters now. All
that is necessary on the envelope
is “'Santa Claus” Care News,
ington. Ga. These letters will be
printed in the Christmas Edition
and the management will person
ally see that Santa Claus gets a
copy with his especial attention
called to these letters, In the
past, many letters have reached
Santa through this means and
every child should write immedi
ately so that there will be time to
get the letter in.
The ever popular Red color and
Christmas borders with pictures
of Santa Claus and his reindeer
will play an important part this
year on the front page of the Cov
ington News, The entire front
page will be devoted to a large
picture of Old £aint Nick himself.
Inside, stories on Christmas and
numerous features will be carried
that will be greatly appreciated at
this time.
Merchants of Covington are co
operating and numerous adver
tisements that will serve as guides
for shoppers will appear on each
page. These ads, especially during
these critical times when there is
a shortage in many articles will
be even more appreciated than
ever before. Use this special
Christmas Edition from now until
Christmas and save money as well
as know just what you wish and
where you can buy it. Be sure to
bet your b i g seventy-seventh
Christmas Edition of The Coving
ton News next week.
Home Guard Unit
Meets Here Tonight
The Covington unit of the State
Defense Corps Tuesday night held
the first of two meetings sched
uled for this week. Several new
men attended and received indi
vidual instruction in the basic
military movements, then joined
the main body for study of actual
combat conditions and proceedure.
Tonight the real battle positions
will be determined along with a
review of rules and regulations
governing -he coming maneuvers,
The Covington News will carry a
full account of the small scale war
games in next week’s edition.
It is expected that very soon
there will be an engineering and
medical detachment organized
within the unit, giving Newton
County an efficient fighting force
containing all the essentials of a
j war machine, with an anticipated
strength of between 75 and 100
men. The infantry unit already
| numbers approximately 50 well
I trained members.
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Welcome PaStOf
Members of the Methodist
church will assemble at the
church tomorrow night at 7:30
o’clock to extend a welcome to
the new pastor, Rev. J. Foster
Young, who is moving here from
Washington, Ga.
A special program has been
J planned with each department of
the church having a part. An
outstanding musical program has
been planned a.sco and will be
■ ndueted by V. Y. C. Eady.
Following the program a reeep
Utti for the new pastor will be
(eld in the church annex, at which
i time refreshment* will be served.
Th« Oorinfton Star, lit. 1874.
Gtorfift JRnttrprU*. E«t, 1864.
Gets Second Term
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who will serve as City Council
man for a second term having
been elected in yesterdays elect
ion. Mr. Pratt was the only
Councilman seeking re-election.
W. C. McGahee and R. A. Norris
leaving the office after faithful
service. T. C. Meadors and J. B.
Weaver will take their places in
the group.
Unemployed Here
Received $441. In
Month Of October
Unemployed workers in New
ton county were paid $441.00 in
benefits by the Bureau of Unem
ployment Compensation in Octob
er, Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet has announced. Number of
checks was reported at 54.
Total payments for the month,
he said, amounted to $253,231.15,
represented by 32,603 checks, and
brought the cumulative total to
$2,470331.06 since the first of the
year. Both the number and
amount of checks issued in Oc
tober showed a slight decrease as
compared with the preceding
month.
Employment opportunities, as
represented by placement activi
ties of the Georgia State Employ
ment Service continued at a high
level, Commissioner Huiet report
! ed, with 13,177 jobs filled. The
number, he said, brought total
placements for the year to 101,109,
! an increase of 20 per cent over the
correspond i ng period of last year,
; anc j 5 j p er cer ^ more than for the
entjre year of 1940
Commission ^ Muiet said more
than 73 000 different men and
womne have /'en placed in jobs
this year, explaining that in some
instances the same person was
placed twice or more.
Significantly, he added, of all
placements made during the 10
j months period 96,488 were in
private employment.
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sta te Director of Vocation Educa
, t ion, who this week was named
t j,e “Man of the Year” by the
progressive J Farmer, who each
ye honor the man ta each South
em State who has rendered dis
tinguished service to agricultural
progress the proceeding year
Major Mobley is the fifth Geor
gun to be so honored.
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Campbell To Head
Civilian Defense
Group For County
Executive Committee Is
Named; C. E. Hawkins
Is Vice-Chairman
For Group
Plans for the immediate organi
zation of the Newton County
Council for Civilian Defense were
underway this week with State
Senator R. P. Campbell, serving
as chairman of the group.
Chairman of nine divisions have
been named and will comprise an
executive committee to coordinate
defense work in the County. C. E.
Hawkins, superintendent of the
City Schools, will serve as vice
chairman.
A. C. Vinning, City Fire Chief,
will head the fire division and
Sheriff will head the auxiliary
police division.
Other division heads and the
divisions that they will head are:
Ike Robertson. County Commis
s j G ner, public works and build
ings; H , o. Whelchel, City Engi
nee r, public utilities; John Birch
more, air raid precautions;; Dr.
W. T. Travis, CountyHealth of
ficer, emergency medical corps;
Miss Rebecca Wilson, nutrition;
E. L. Ficquett, County School
Superintendent, school defense,
and W. C. Ivy, Mayor of Porter
dale, textiles.
Senator Campbell said that a
meeting of this committee *oulri
be called in the near future to map
plans for a program in which every
citizen of Newton County can have
a part.
An office will be set up in the
downtown area where civilians
can volunteer for defense work.
Volunteers will be assigned to
task that they are suited to per
form.
Two School Patrols
Are Organized Here
The organizatoin of school boy
patrols at two .more Newton
County schools was announced
this week by State Tropoer W. E.
Lee.
T. appointed . , , Cap- _
J- Owens was
tain of the Patrol at the Palmer
Stone school, Trooper Lee said,
with Reynolds Parnell, Hazel Mc
Intosh, Harrison Handy, Hazel
Moon, Dewey Cason, Rita .John
son, Robert Ellington, James
Kines and Sybil Kitchens serving
as patrolmen.
Patrol members selected for the
Newborn school are Venus Davis,
Randal] Brooks and Henry Savage.
COTTON GROWERS TO VOTE DEC. 13 ON CROP QUOTAS;
PLANTERS IN SOUTH IN DILEMMA OVER FUTURE PRICES
Cotton Prices Expected To Advance
Slightly If Control Measure Passes
Confusion in official as well as
trade quarters as to future agri
cultural prices hag millions of cot
ton farmers guessing what they
should do about Federal crop con
! trol programs.
Cotton growers will vote in an
Agricultural Adjustment Admini
stration referendum December 13
on whether they want rigid mar
keting quotas continued on next
year s crop.
Under quotas, the AAA tells
farmers how much they may sell
Products sold in excess of a quota
are subject , . . to . stiff penalty taxes,
I u/hirh fhie VPflr urprp ft p<>nfc a
poun d for cotton. Quotas must b"
a P Ved hv two-third* of the
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER
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who was recently elected Chair
man of the Newton County
cil for Civilian Defense. C.
tendent will serve as Vice-Chair
man. Directors for nine different
Divisions have been named and
will comprise the Executive Com
mittee for the new organization.
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Discussion Is Planned
Saturday
On Saturday, December 6. there
will be an open discussion in
the Newton County Court Room
on Cotton Marketing Quotas and
the 1942 AAA program, Each
cotton producer in the county will
be effected by the regulations of
the 1942 program and the out
come of the referendum, therefore
each producer should attend this
meeting so as to have full knowl
edge of these matters.
Farmers who were engaged in
the production of cotton in 1941
as owner-operator, cash tenant,
standing rent tenant, or fixed rent
tenant, or landlord of a share ten
ant or sharecropper are eligible to
vote in the referendum. The vot
ing places will be given in next
week’s paper.
This office and the farmers of
the county regret our loss of Mr.
Everett D. Briscoe as County Ad
ministrative Officer. Mr. Briscoe
was very efficient in his work here
which earned his promotion to a
larger county. Mr. Briscoe is re
placed with Mr. John M. Langley,
of Lawrenceville. Mr. Langley
has been connected with the AAA
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porters and opponents of the AAA
system that there was little eco
nomic reason for rejection of
quotas.
Past cotton referenda were held
at times when prices of the crops
were considerably below levels
demanded by farmers. Tied in
with the quotas were Govern
| merit commodity loan programs
which lifted and pegged prices at
levels higher than would other
wise have prevailed. Consequent
ly jt wag easy {or AAA officials
to convince farmers that they
would secure a larger income with
quotas than without ..l .
Thf? sitUdtion is dtjff€?r0Dt flOW.
Averaging above 16 cents a
P™nd, cotton prices this season
have been the highest since 1938,
This average is virtually the pari
y priw goa , of th , AAA pro .
gr^ma
Many farmers, traders as well
aj , officials believe these prices
will go higher. This belief is
supported by administration re-
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Red Cross Drive
Reaches New High
For Newton County
Collections Now Total
$1,258; Plan Meeting
To Elect New Officers
December 14
The annual Newton County Red
Cross drive, launched several
weeks ago, has gone over the
$1,000 mark, with a reported total
chapter charinian, announced this
week. This is the largest sum
collected in a single year by the
local chapter, Chairman Loyd
said.
The Porterdnle community this
week reported a total of $550.98.
The various departments of the
Osprey Mill gave $265.50, with
the Porterdale Mill giving $215.48.
An additional $60 was collected
from the Welaunee Mill, the off
and the Por-
terdale School teachers. W. C.
Ivy, Mayor of Porterdale, headed
the drive in that community.
A total of $483 has been report
ed from the City of Covington,
The Salem community, headed by
Mrs. L. C. Fincher, raised $15.25;
and the Brick Store community
reported a total of $8.54, with Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Cook heading the
drive.
Miss Mellie Pitts, who headed
the drive in the Newborn com
rnunity reported collections total- j
ing $29.50, while the Mansfield
community reported $46.70. D. Jr,J P.
Blake and Mrs. J. B. Spears, in
conducted‘the, campaign Mails
field.
Lee Harwell and Rev. C. S.
Forester, who conducted the drive
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Rev. Sullivan Makes
Farewell Speech
In a farewell talk Tuesday
morning Rev. T. M. Sullivan,
superintendent of the Decatur
Oxford District, told the students
of Emory at Oxford to “he de
pendable and make the most of
your time while in school.”
"You may not realize it now.”
declared Superintendent Sullivan,
“but you are showing by trends
today what you will be tomorrow
as men. I urge you to face in the
right direction always. If you fall,
be sure to fall face downward. By
doing this you will be facing in
the right direction when you get
up.”
The speaker expressed his great
pleasure in having lived at Ox
ford the past four years. He paid
high tribute to Dean George S.
Roach, head of Little Emory, and
the work he and his staff is ac
complishing.
j quests for price-control legisla
tion. There has been much lalk
in Congress and among officials
j concerned over the possibility of
inflation that cotton, if not sub
i t0 P rif ' p ceilings, might go to
20 or 25 cents a pound.
Secrtary of Agriculture Wick
i a,d himseIf has implied, through
support of the administration's
j price-control bill, that he fears
j farm prices may go to levels un
I i fair to consumers and not in the
| best interest of agriculture. He
had President Roosevelt veto leg
j islation which would have frozen
I Government-owned stocks of cot
i ton and wheat. This legislation
would have taken away from him
the power to release such storks
on the market to keep prices from
going to excessive levels.
In testimony urging price con
trols. Wickard told Congress that
one of the surest methods of pie
venting inflationary prices was
bountiful production Some farm
; haps the AAA production and
marketing contiol program for
cotton and • PTv wh-'-’i ih
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THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC, PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
J.B. WEAVER AND
ELECTED TO COUNCIL POSTS; WEATHER
KEEPS MANY FROM VOTING PLACE
Re-Elected Mayor
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w j, 0 j n yesterdays election
was P | ec ted to serve a second
te rm ns Mayor of the City of
Covington. During his first term,
Dr. Waites has shown unfailing
loyalty to the City and its citizens.
Many improvements have been
made in the community under his
guidance.
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The names of 30 Newton County
citizens, who have been drawn
to serve on the Grand Jury dur
ing the January term, were an
nounced this week by Otis C.
Nixon, Clerk of Superior Court.
Judge James C. Davis, of the Stone
Mountain Circuit, will preside
over the term and Roy C. Leath
er, solicitor, will proseeute the
State's cases.
Jurors drawn were as follows:
J. N. Epps, W, D. Collum, J. H.
Smith, W. B. Ficquett, E. H. Mob
ley, A Bohanan, R. O. Arnold, E.
L. King, S. A. Yancey, T. C,
Meadors, J. E. Philips, E. L.
Rainey, J. D. Guinn, Ira G. Wil
liams, W. T. Smith, A. A. Goins.
T. B. Black, G. A. Jones, P. M.
Dearing, E. E. Callaway, Sr., J.
R. Meadors, Charlie Aiken, Ches
ter C. King, J. G. Rogers, W. N.
Blake, D. K. Hicks, J, M. Rogers,
C. N. Hill, O. 1). Grant
Fifty five traverse jurors
were also named as follows;
Starr W. Dial, S. E. Poole, O.
A. Wheeler, W. L. Moss, W. W.
Piper, John W Dial, M. G. Tur
ner, W. R. Porter, Robert Cowan,
Joel F McClendon, W, H. Odum,
W. A. Parnell, Joe C. Anderson,
Torn J. Cook.
W. S. Chesnut, E H. Pratt, James
Prosser, T. A. McIntosh, Herbert
Dick, John L. Bush, N. F. Thomas,
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form«T Georgia Congressman an
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Covington an, vt e, ,u t y next
; throughout the Nation as a force
| ful speaker, his .ccord in on
gross being u T ”■ L?’ge crowds
are expected to hear him speak,
NUMBER 49
E. B. Roger* And R. M.
Tuck Are Elected To
Po*t On City Board of
Education
Light rains and threatening
weather during the day kept a
majority of the city’s potential
voters away from the polls yester
day, but those that did show up
voted Mayor S. L. Waites into
office f<»- a second term and re
turned P. W. Pratt to the City
Council for a second term.
Two new council members were
al «* elecU>d to f ‘ll the expiring
, ‘’ rms of Walter c - MeGahee and
R, A. Norris, who did not seels
re-election fir the coming term,
B R n K« s and R - M. Tuck were
; 'ko returned to their position* on
the ^‘ ty Board of Education,
Dr. Waites has served Coving-
ton for the past two years an$
much progress has been made un»
der h‘s direction and leadership.
P, W. Pratt has served for sev
eral terms and he has also estab
lished an outstanding record. The
two new candidates are w’ell
known citizens and the fact that
all of these men were elected
without opposition is proof of
their abilit y a nd ‘be confidence
P eo P le oI Covington have in
,hem '
W ' C McGahee ’ wh0 served lot
several years as chairman of Fi
nance of the City Council, ha*
alil0 made w enviable . record,
The reduction' of the city debt and
the establishment of a budget
P, 1 ® 11 is Ia ^ ely due t0 bls effort ’
tc coik i ion o e ci y is e
tu V " cred,t ' “ *‘ ve " the yearS « ,unc,r "
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R - A. Norris, one of the oldest
councilmen from the point of serv
<«,, refused to offer for re-eiec
hon, and stated that he had scrv
ed ion K enough. He has seen the
c *ly through many administra
tions a «d his steady, reliable ad
vice and influence has mean*
much to the city government.
Former Georgia
Congressman Will
Speak Here Monday
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 next week.
On Monday, Mr. Upshaw will
i peak at the Covington High
School at 2:30 P. M.- his subject
being ‘‘Pluck, Purpose and Pa
triotism.” Monday night he will
speak at the Porterdale Baptist
Church. Tuesday, at 10:30 o’clock,
he will speak at Emory Junior
College. The subject for his talk
is the “Victorious Student.”
On the same day 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 rally at the Court House at
7:30 Tuesday night, speaking on
I “Georgia's Part in America’s
: Greatest Battle.”
The concluding address in the
j series will be held at the Metho
| dist church in Oxford on Wednes
day night, the .subject being "The
Blue Coat and the Red Flag.”
Choral Groups Plan
Christmas Concert
One of the high lights,of the
Christmas season will be a con
cu t given by the Porterdale
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sundav evening December 14 at
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: porterdale Baptist church.
e.,e gi ti>» . di
on o M, s Mary Catherine Catherine
The am vvil open at
7;30 m . with, a candle i.ght
pi ’DC nal w.th sixty robed
j singer*
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