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being so very
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this ... m ay
little slang . . .
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strong points . . we love to
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fun but lately we haven t
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so very much . . . ’cause we
been right in four walls
Christmas . . . You know
January and February are
bad months when old man
JlBmonia just puffing keeps knocking and puffing on
door . . . door down and
Si ig to blow the
SH blow us into the hospital . . .
M he nea r!y succeeded the past
week 'cause your Office Boy
astB peered . . . While we love
■hose fine nurses at Emory, we
our own home more .. . well,
r, must kinda got sidetracked a
d eK what we were going to
was our face was sure
. Chatterbox
*hen we read the
Tflweek ’cause there was don’t a word
H there which we just use
we are just coming out and
you that somebody else just
‘up that word for us . . . folks You
now “Leon” . . . some
lim “Foots” . . . well we don’t
5 why they call him “Foots”
e to us he is tops most of the
, he generally sets our
|es and eccrects things when
(es we’ve kind of strayed off
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DEC
lior Guard Unit
K Be Organized
re City Tonight
) ns for the immediate organi
i of a Junior Defense Corps,
will be rained by and work
D ■’^■njunction with the regular
Guard Units in the County,
announced here this week.
■ junior unit will be sponsor
>fthe Covington Kiwanis
A committee has been ap
pd to represent the Club,
d by S. M. Hay, County tax
[tor and will work out the
p with Captain John Bob
hr, County Defense Corps
and Lieutenant P. W. Pratt,
lander of Unit No. 59.
r s between the ages of 15 |
,8 years of age are eligible
nembership and those in- |
ed are requested to meet bo
at the Legion Hall at 7:30
k for further details. It is
Pd to place the new unit in
) [ion Las also at once,
announced here this
that orders had been re
| H from organization State Headquarters
I of a Signal
in the County to be attach
the local Guard Onit. The
I will be composed of men
/^Bnd ^|re qualified telegraph as operators radio, wire- and
rm ^fciess m ueh to improve the ef
of the efficient Units
M ■ v organized. Men interested
type ot organization should
IL^Biately ,1,re contact arp few Lieutenant
a more va
so witlees Named
Kiwanis Club
ten stand
Covington
i«*4”"'k i ve pu . T v ;J en announced
f man lor a Lt„ Eady '
Itiamed ecah committee
placed and a Club Director
>«rship m charge of each one.
a s given by Presi
Eady i s as follows:
Jr f~E hairman W. G.
n Direct E Ike -
n§: Robert -
charge, R. R.
*/; nce ’ Membership and !
R. H
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■ween >r in charge, Rog
■ c. Lee
Hilo S v u° !rls ' W ork-Chair-.
: E. E.
Direct Cohen; S. A.
° r ln charge, P. W.
ef -Club
Relations, Citizen
r man, \y. A. Maddox;
"las ten; w Mills;
“ - R. M.
r, r C,0r
lore „ m charge, John
■- c. _ Chairman c. c
foste J Readers; E. S.' Rhe
■J ■ 'Scigar w£5 Dlrect ° r in
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Volume 78
WAVELL LAUNCHES COUNTERBLOWS I AT JAPS
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Bibb Honors “Old-Timers” With
RUSSELL SPEAKS
ON BIBB’S PART
| IN PRESENT WAR
Certificates Given To
Employees Having Ten
Years Service; 52 Years
Service Record.
An Old-Timers banquet, honor
ing 385 members of the Bibb
Manufacturing Company family
who have completed 10 years or
more active service with the
Company, was held last Friday
night in the Porter Memorial
Gymnasium, in Porterdale.
Special music, speeches by Bibb
Company officials and delivery of
certificates of membership in the
Old-Timers Club were features of
the special program, which was
presided over by H. W. Pittman,
Agent for the Bibb Company, in
Porterdale.
Leading the parade of honor
guests was Miss Sara Vining, who
has 52 years of continuous active
service to her credit and is still
working. She remembers way
back when Mr. Jim Porter was a
boy and can tell all sorts of in
teresting tales about the times
bask there when the Porter boys
wore short pants.
In appreciation of her long and
faithful service Scott Russell,
President of Bibb Manufacturing
Company, presented her with a
certificate showing her years of
service and a $100.00 Defense
Bond. Certificates were also giv
Continued on Page Eight
Tire Board Names
Three Inspectors
For Newton County
Two tire inspectors were ap
pointed this week by the Newton
County Tire Rationing Board.
These inspectors will inspect the
tires of eligible applicants of new
tires and if they find the tires
cannot be retreaded and there is
a need for new tires, they will
certify the application to the ra
tioning board. The inspectors will
fill out the application blanks and
them to the rationing board.
The tire rationing board has an
in the Courthouse. As often
necessary the rationing board
meet to consider the appli
on file, granting those they
qualified, providing the
quota for this county has
been exhausted. The applica
granted will be certified and
Following are the tire inspectors
by the board, the list
announced yesterday by the
Chairman:
Joe Heard, of the Covington
Station, Hollis Lazenby, of
Motor Company and J. A.
of Mansfield.
With the appointment of the
inspectors, the rationing board
now ready to function.
Reinforce Americans in Pacific
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soldiers, sailors and technicians sail m a convoy to reinforce
American garrisons in the Pacifc: war zone. Here a transport fol
lows its destroyer “watch dog,” as seen from the deck of another.
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Porterdale Woman Honored For Fifty-Two Year Service Record
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Leading the parade of honor guests last Friday night at a
banquet honoring employees of the Bibb Manufacturing Company
With ten, or more years of service, was Miss Bara Vining, who -fees
been with the Company for the past fifty-two years. In appre
ciation of her faithful service, the Company presented her with a
certificate showing the length of her service and a $100 United
| p| ans ire Made
For Auxiliary
Fire Force Here
Approximately 73 persons were
present last Monday night at a
meeting of the Covington Fire
Department, presided over by
Fire Chief, A. C. Vinning.
Thirty-five of this group volun
Fire teered fighting to serve force as that an Auxiliary being j '
is
organized to help during air raids I
or other war emergencies. This
force is in addition to the regular
City fir e department.
Pat Campbell, chairman of the
Newton County Civilian Defense
Council, was present at the meet- !
ing and spoke on the work and I
activities of the auxiliary fire ;
The group will meet each Mon
day night and it is hoped that at
! least 60 volunteers can be obtain
ed. The membership is open to
anyone desiring to offer their
services with the exception of
Selective Service registrants in
Continued on Page Eight
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
TWENTY-FIVE CENI COTTON, MUSIC FOR SOUTHERN
EARS, FORECAST AS CROUP RE-WRITES PRICE BILL
Commissioner Linder Says Senators
“Deserve The Thanks of The Nation’'
There was talk in Washington
this week of 25 cent cotton—music
in many a Southerner's ear-—as a
joint Senate an u House conference
committee prepared to rewrite the
administration’s battered price
control bill.
The measure was approved
last Saturday by the Senate, 81 to
1. Senator Nye (Republican,
North Dakota), the dissenter, op
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The regular meeting of the
Covington Rotary Club was held
Tuesday noon at the Delaney Ho
tel with President W. C. MeGahee
in charge.
The president announced thal
the Rev. Henry Jones, District
Superintendent of the DecatLV
Oxford District of the Methodist :
I Church, had been accepted for
j membership and would be official- j
! ly welcomed into the club at the
next meeting.
Gordon Robinson, Chairman of
Continued on Page Five
Ivy Is Re-elected
Porterdale Mayor
At a recent election of City of
| ficials for the Porterdale Village
I for the coming year. W. C. Ivy,
was reelected to the office of May
ior. H. L. Abercrombie was re
elected Reecrder and two mem
bers of the Council were also re
elected. The Council membership j
in
eludes: H. S. Gates, reelected; C. j
P. Boyd, also reelected, and C. B. '
Drennon, Albert Moody and C. T. )
Jaynes. i
During the past year much ;
progress has been noted in im
proving the Village and several i
Continued on Page Eight « !
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942.
States Defense Bond. Miss Vining is being congratulated by
James Porter, vice-chairman of the Board Ifli Directors, while
H. Wir Piftmen. right, Bibb agent at Portent Ifle/aWS’ AwA. Drake,
left, vice-president of the Company, look on. Seated at the
table on the left is Mrs, C. C. Hertzwig, wife of the treasurer of the
Bibb.
j . posed it because it contained no
wage controls, The "House pre
viously had passed the measure in
much different form.
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tom Linder said Tuesday that
senators who oveirode President
Roosevelt’s wishes in order to
keep the way open for higher
farm product prices “deserve the
thanks of the nation.”
The Georgia commissioner’s
comment was made in connection
with Saturday’s Senate action
giving the Secretary of Agricul
Iu»'e virtual veto powers over ag
r >cultural commodity prices set by
Price Administrator Leon Hender
son. The President opposed this
power foe the secretary on the
ground that it would hamper ef
forts to prevent inflation,
Mr. Linder advocates sharply
higher farm prices and said Mon
Continued on Page Eight
Weaver Will Head
Polio Committee
In Newton County
J. B. Weaver of Covington this
week was named chairman of the
Newton County Committee for the
1942 Committee for the Celebra
tion of the President’s Birthday
by Jud Milam of Columbus,
Fourth District Chairman, who
also announced chairmen for the
other counties in his district,
“I consider the Fight Infantile
Paralysis Drive fortunate in se
curing men and women of the
ability to be found in all of the
county chairmen of this district,”
Mr. Milam declared. “I am sure
that under ther leadership the
1942 Celebration of our President’s
Birthday will be the greatest ever.”
State Chairman Cason J. Cal
iaway of Blue Springs Farm,
Ga., pointed out that
“Americans are united as never
Continued on Page Eight
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Here w reDruarv J lo
I Approximately 37,500 male resi
j dents in the in 20 Georgia and will 21-year-old be register ed
age
groups on February Iflth, Brig |
Gen. Sion B. Hawkins, State Di
rector of Selective Service, an
nounced this week.
Complete ,,__, , plans for the regi
strati on in Newton Countv have
not been completed, according to
Dr. W. K. Swann, chairnyin of the
Newton County Board.
It is understood that registi a- ;
tion places will be set up in the
City of Covington and in Porter
dale and possibly one in Mans
field. Chairman Swann said that
volunteers are needed to register
the men. No funds are allocated
for this work, he added.
Volunteers will be given special
training in order that they may do
the job with th e least trouble, j
The training was necessitated Mr. !
Swann said in order that full and
complete information might be ob
tained.
Complete details and registra
tion places wijl be announced in
an early edition of t,he News.
National Selective Service Head
quarters anticipate* a total regis
Continued on Page Five
Marine Recruiter
Now In Covington
Patriotic Newton County young
men who want to fight for their
country with a highly trained, I
wide-awake branch of the armed
forces are joining the United
States Marines, Staff Sgt Ivan
Shoemaker of the Marine recruit
ing service said here this week.
Having already received a eita
tion from President Roosevelt for
the heroic action of 400 men on
Wake Island, the Marine Cr, ns i
Continued on Page Eight
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
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EIGHTEEN JAPS REPORTED KILLED IN
FIGHTING ON SARAWAK FRONTIER;
DUTCH PLANES BOMB JAP BASE
American Bombers Destroy Two Jap
Lighters; General Brett in Indies
General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, commander in chief
of the new Allied Far East Command, has arrived in the
Dutch East Indies and already launched a series of dy
namic counterblows against Japanese forces, military dis
patches said yesterday.
Dutch troops were reported moving into action on
the border of the “white Rajah” kingdom of Sarawak,
where Japanese troops had seized the capital,
AGRICULTURAL
NEWS BY THE
COUNTY AGENT
Woodland owners who arc cut
ting their fuelwood now or letting
someone else cut wood either for
home use ot for sale should use
care in selecting the trees to hr
cut. Trees that are diseased,
crooked, or dead should be cut
first. Wise thinning in many cases
will yield much good wood for
burning and give the better trees
that are left on the land a chance
to grow.
It is very desirable that wood
be cut, 8 or ft months before it is
Continued on Page Five
Kiwanians To Hear
1942 Objectives
The Covington Kiwanis Club, at
its Thursday noon meeting at the
Delaney Hotel, will hear a report
of the Officers and Board Direct
ors, who will outline to the mem
bo s the principal objectives of
the dub for the year.
It is expected that Pres. Eady,
wh0 wil) P resp "t the report for the
Roard, will insist on a county
wide program for the current year
coordinated with every national
effnrl to stimulate both rural and
urban communities to an enthusi
astic participation in the nation’s
° e ai wa tmg an In this
connection it is known that the
Board approved of the recommen
dations of the Agriculture Com
mittee, of which Grady Benton *
Chairman and Robt. Fowler is Di
rector in Charge, to continue the
Fat-Cattle Show and if possible
give increased prizes to the win
nets.
. In addition to this annual affair,
however, the Kiwanis Club
through the Agriculture Commit
tee is said to have formulated
plans hr increasing the number of
high-bred milk rows in the conn
ty and encouraging the production
Continued on Page Eight
Watch Out for Air Raiders
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On 24-hour watch for enemy planes, anti-aircraft crews man guns
at strategic defense points in New York, Aii identifying marks hace
been removed fitom this photograph, taken on top of a skyscraper*
so that location ul emplacement will not be revealed.
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and most of the northern terri
tory. .
General Wavetl’s second in com
mand, Lieut. General George H.
Brett, former chief of the U. S.
Army Air Corps, arrived at the
The Army said yesterday three
American bombers, fighting
with the Netherlands Indies
forces, attacked a Japanese na
#val force near Tarakan, the vital
oil island, off northeast Borneo
that has fallen to the enemy.
Full results of the attack are
not known, a communique said,
but two Japanese lighters were
destroyed.
The American planes returned
to their undisclosed haae un
damaged.
Army advices indicated that
the Japanese were establishing
bases on the large Island of
Mindanao, southeast of Luzon,
and the Island of Jnio, in the
Sulu Archipelago.
same time to help direct strategy
for the Indies’ lighting defense.
A communique said 18 Japan
ese were killed in preliminary
skirmishes on the Sarawak fron
tier, with the loss of only one
Dutch soldier.
Dutch Indies soldiers were also
Continued on Page Five
W.C.T.U. Lecturer
On EAO Program
Miss Estell Bozeman, national
W C. T. U. lecturer, addressed the
Emory at Oxford .student body
Tuesday morning at the chapel
period on the evils of narcotics.
Miss Bozeman spoke under the au
spices of the Oxford chapter of
the W. C. T. U
By the use of charts Miss Boze
man illustrated graphically the
dangers of beverage alcohol, nico
tine and morphine. She particu
larly stressed the danger of the
so-called social drink, declaring it
“an instrument of th<> devil ”
“A drinking nation is a crumb
| in g nation," said Miss Bozeman
'If America i.s to remain a strong
citadel of democracy the liquor
traffic must go. I thank C-od the
w. C. T. U has never deviated
from its fight un liquor."