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SECOND SECTION OF
YOUR COUNTY
NEWSPAPER
Volume 78
AUTOMOBILE RATIONING IS PLANNED;
BOARD IS MAKING SURVEY OF NEEDS
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be interested? And THEY ARE!
Not only were they listening at
tentively to the course but as you
glanced around the group you saw
nimble fingers weaving, or knit
ting, sock, sweaters etc., to keep
our boys warm at the battle front
. . . then two days each week they
are going to the sewing room
where they are doing a splendid
work. Newton County Women
will not be found idle during the
days to come . . . it’s an all out
for VICTORY! Dr. Travis is giv
ing his time unselfishly and doing
a wonderful work in giving him
self to his community.
There is a tie, which binds to
gether the hearts of friends. We
have often tried to give a good
definition of a true friend . . .
but Folks you can know who your
friends are when you are in need
. . . the true friends . . . Now the
Office Boy happened to be out
with a gr oup of friends a few days
ago . . . and we went to a certain
place in a big car that had ab
solutely nothing wrong with it . . .
but when we started home the
front wheel ran into a big hole in
the ground . . . how can we get
it out? Well, Edith David gra
ciously said she w r ould phone the
boss . . . because we were afraid
to try to back out lest we take a
grain of rubber off that tire . . .
and surely we had rather have a
wrecker come lift us out than lose
one grain of precious rubber . . .
while she was telephoning, Mr.
McKay came along and just lifted
usiipana out . • * slle la .” and
hopped in the front seat with me
and turned around to say some
thing to our friends in the back
seat . . . and Gosh! They were
gone . . . the little truants! They
weren't going to walk home! Oh
well, we just had to laugh when
Edith looked around and said,
THEY ARE GONE! She had not
missed them for half a block . . .
we had to tell this on them . . .
but truth o’ the matter was we
sent them on . . .
It’s spring and we know it is!
We want to get in the garden . . .
and yesterday was the first time
we had seen Clarence and Lilly
Mae Meadors new home ... it is a
picture . . . sitting high on that
hill with a great sloping lawn . . .
and a fringe of dignified box
woods outlining the Sront ... we
can’t wait to see the inside, which
I am told is lovely . . . and yes
terday we had the joy of seeing
the beautiful home of Elizabeth
Skinner and her Mother out on
Conyers Street . . . beautiful new
brick . . . and the inside . . . Gosh!
We’d feel like a new person if we
could get into a house that clean
again . . . spanking new . . . and
dainty . . . right across the entire
front is the spacious living and
dining room . . . and they let us
go back into the house Tlnd see
the spare room which belongs to
the girls when they come home . . .
dainty four poster bed in rich
mahogany and all the matching
pieces . . . fresh dainty curtains
and pretty floors ... on back into
Elizabeth’s dainty bed room . . .
we simply couldn’t sleep fer look
in at that room if it was ours . . .
but we choose Mrs. Skinners room
for ours . . . right in the middle of
the house in the back with win
dows ail across the back where
she can look out into the flower
garden and lawn . . . and then
right into the kitchen from there
. . . (wonder why they put their
mother’s bed room by the kitchen
... bet we could guess) But I’ve
been promised that I could come
over and help cook supper in that
modern built-in kitchen ... it is a
love . . . and is a good rival for j
R H. and Sara Clyde s . . . and
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then a breakfast room! ..How,
we wish we had a breakfast room
. • . we eat in the kitchen instead
. . but times up and I’ll bet be
fore this war is over the Office
Boy won’t be thinkin’ about where
eats . . . but WHEN! Gosh
that gives us plenty of “food for
thought while we are
SWEEPIN’ LP.
Thousands of acres on Georgia
farms are suffering from the ef-j
fects of severe soil erosion.
Put your idle land to work. It
pays, says the Agricultural Exten
Service.
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official business, are to be in
cluded in the estimates, according
to OPM announcement made this
week from Atlanta.
Quotas for the rationing of mo
tor vehicles, it is understood, will
be based on total figures gathered
from over the state.
The announcement pointed out,
however, “that there is no assur
ance whatever that these govern
mental agencies will be able to
secure the new motor vehicles
that they anticipate they may
need during the coming year.”
The survey will not include any
new cars to be owned personally
by government employes for use
in the performance of their offi
cial duties, it said.
The OPM announcement indi
cated that there was no assur
ance that all of the new cars
needed by city and county govern
ments would be made available.
but that these cars and autos
would be considered first in any
rationing set-up.
Administration of the rationing
laws will be the same as in the
tire set-up, the announcement
said, with the local tire board
acting in accordance with strict
governmental regulations, with a
minimum of option in all cases.
After the needs of essential
governmental services have been
met it is expected that the ra
tioning provisions will allow cars
for doctors in active practice only,
for essential transportation needs,
and for services necessary to the
maintenance of civilian health,
morale and safety.
There was a decided intimation
that no passenger ears for use by
private individuals will be allow
ed under any circumstances.
The announcement made today
did not intimate when the new
rationing provisions would go into
effect, but a Washington an
nouncement of the OPM indi
cated that it would be put into
effect as soon after January 23,
the deadline for all estimates of
car needs, as is possible in order
to allow essential services to con
tinue without serious handicaps.
Federal Auto Tags
Sell Slowly Here
Survey Reveals
Continued from Page One
more tags through January 15 of
this year than it sold through the
same date last year.
Even though the federal govern
ment is toying with the suggestion
that bicycles be substituted for
cars as a mode of transportation,
car owners are crowding into the
state capitol every day for tags
and jingling the state’s cash reg
isters.
Through January 15 of 1941 the
tag department sold only 55.351
license plates, but this year the
total for the same period climbed
to 69,370.
There seemed to be an even
greater comparative increase in
the amount of money taken in so
far. Revenue for the 15-day pe
riod this year totaled $305,063.99.
as compared with $191,544.48 for
the corresponding period a year
ago. baffled. He
Mr. Joiner was es
timated that if the present rate
keeps up Georgia will register
more automobiles than it did last
year, which was the peak.
Baptist Layman
Is E.A.O. Speaker
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had deserted a fine wife and little
shrl and I was running away.
“While on my way to end it all,
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church, where the behalf. I was j
intervened in my to tell
saved and am here today
you von yo voune g men and women the
a ' V “ exacts."
H young daughter, who be- :
came a devout Christian through
regenerated father, was fatal
lv burned to death in December at
Clanton, Clanton Alabama, a in a bus powerful! crash. j
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impression upon his listeners,
of whom expressed their
many him after the service,
thanks to time I
Mr. Hamer was at one
rnnnected with the Atlanta Journ
al. working with O. B. Keeler.
golf editcc He was introduced
by Dean George S. Roacn.
§k Cotoingtcm ff,cws
The Covington Star, Est. 1874.
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864.
TIRE BOARD TO
LIST BUYERS OF
TIRES IN CITY
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the month, they will be returned
to the government, and a new
quota is set each month. Tires
not issued cannot be carried over
from month to month, but may be !
carried over from week to week.
Tire inspectors are the first ones j
to pass on the granting of tires, j
If the inspector states that the j
tires of the applicant cannot be
retreaded and are dangerous for
ordinary driving then a permit
for new tires is granted, always
provlded .. J the llcant A qualifies
a PP
as on the eligible list -
This list covers doctors in active
practice, utilities, and certain es
! sential services as laid down by
the national authorities. It does
not extend to any pleasure cars,
or to many cars used in business
by their owners, I
A person can discover whether !
or not he is on the eligible list by
contacting a member of the tire |
board. He can then have a
tires qualified inspector examine his J
and give him a certificate to
accompany his application for 1
the tires.
Curtailment in use of cars and I
trucks has become noticeable in
the city, as several merchants
giving delivery are limiting their \
trips and combining deliveries to
conserve driving of cars and
trucks. A number of merchants
conserve driving of cars and
trucks by using bicycles for short
trips in the city.
There is no restriction as yet
on bicycle tires and tubes.
NEWS NOTES !
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SCHOOL
Well, folks, we’re so confused
from cramming for final exami
nations that our news may not
make sense. Examinations will
be over Friday and if we pass we
will really be happy.
The Seniors are planning a big
entertainment in the gymnasium
on January 30. There will be a
ball game, cake walks, and best
of all a five tube Firestone radio
will be given to the person hold
ing the lucky number T.he sen
iors are really working to make
this drive for money a big suc
cess.
There is no use for us to <vrile
up our ball games last week.
Palmer-Sotne and Porterdale were
victorious over our teams and we
expect to see their victories in
shining headlines. Anyway, we
enjoyed playing the games and
we hope we will be able to win
next year.
Time is calling us back to some
more study for tests. Maybe by
next year we will learn to study
each day and not try to cram the
few days before tests. It is a
good thing the other students are
not like your news reporter.
The important news of this
week is the announcement of the
senior frolic on January 30. Plan
to come and we hope you win
the radio.
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to mark their victory in Libya,
thus monument, with slight re
vjsions by thp British, is now
eiving recognition to the “V for
Victory” campaign.
Farmers Asking
Only Fair Price,
Tom Linder Says
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bill by Ralph Smith, The Atlanta
Journal’s Washington correspond
ent.
“Mr. Smith has rendered a great
service to the country and to ag
riculture in bringing out these en
lightening facts,” Mr. Linder said.
“With millions of able-bodied
young men being taken off the
farms, and with the scarcity of
farm supplies, implements, and
machinery incident to the great
demands of the war, it will be im
possible to maintain agricultural
production even under fair prices.
“The farmer is willing and anx- ;
ious te p<«h1«c« evendlr.iig the
country needs to win the war. The
farmer’s ability to produce is
limited by what he receives for his
products.
“The time of year is here when
the farmer must plan for this
year’s crops. If the farmer is ex
pected to produce a normal crop
he must know now that the price
will be fair, otherwise he cannot
produce a normal crop.
“If the farmer is not permitted
to produce normal crops in 1942,
then 1943 will find us faced with
another shortage, a shortage more
vital and more terrifying than any
shortage of rubber, tin or any
other war need.
“History teaches us that in every
war agricultural production has
fallen off. This war will be no
exception to that rule.”
Basketball Game
Planned Friday
The Covington P.-T. A. will
sponsor a basketball game at the
Covington gymnasium on Friday
between the Covington and
teams.
Both teams have had excellent
seasons and everyone is invited
to be on hand for what is expected
to be a close game.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942
AGRICULTURAL
NEWS BY THE
COUNTY AGENT
Continued from Page One
can insure his crop for the
length of staple he usually grows
In case of crop failure or partial
crop failure you will receive
enough middling cotton of the
staple length you selected to make
up the difference between your
production and the percentage
your crop is insured for.
I have seen several of the 4-H
Club beef calves in the last few
days. Most of them are doing
nicely. The boys that have not
put their calves on a heavy grain
feed should do so now. We have
three more months to put on
weight for the spring show and
sale. Calves should be brushed
daily. Brushing will give the
calf smoother groomed look and
will also make it mere accustomed
to handling. Salt and water ait
inexpensive hut keep both before
the calf at all times.
James P. Simms
Passes in Atlanta
James Phillips Simms, 80, of
2176 Highland Avenue, Atlanta,
died at his residence this past
week after an illness of several
weeks.
Born in Covington, Mr. Simms
was the ifon of Brig, Gen. J. P.
Simms, who fought in Longstreet’s
Division in the Army of Virginia.
His mother was Mary Lucy BateR.
He was a member of Alpha Ma
sonic Lodge and the Independent
Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are the widow and
several cousins.
Funeral services w ere held at
the residence with the Rev. Henry
M. Edmonds officiating.
Burial was in Elmwood
cemetery.
' Montgomery
News
Mr. and Mi's. Arthur Bruce, of
Covington, spent last Sunday with
their children, Mr. and Mrs.
James Bruce.
Mr. and Mrs. R, A. Aaron had
with them last Friday night then
children, Mr. and Mrs. Kermit
Pratt, of Covington, Mrs, Frank
Thompson and son, of Atlanta.
Mr, and Mrs. Allen Bagby, of
Decatur, spent last Sunday with
their parents.
Messrs. F. F. Bagby, Roy Stuart,
and Mr. Robinson, of Atlanta,
spent a few days this week in
South Georgia, being the guests
of Mr. R, H. Dorminy and family
of Fitzgerald,
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pace spent
a while Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Hitchcock.
Mrs. L. D. Dobbs and children,
Sunday P. M., with Mr. and
R. A. Aaron and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Lawson and
family visited relatives in Porter
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pace had
them Sunday their children,
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bagby, and
Yvonne and Thelma, of
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Renee Bender, 3, Brooklyn, N.
Y., shows good business sense by
investing her cents in U. S. De
fense Stamps. She made her pur
chase with savings in her penny
bank.
British Cheered
j ! By Plans For
AEF Vanguards
Continued from Page One
the Malayan west coast “in spite
of gunfire St:om enemy ships” in
the Strait of Malacca, which lies
between the Malay Peninsula and
the Dutch East Indies island of
Sumatra.
British military quarters con
ceded that Japanese troops—ap
parently arriving in small boats
which hugged the shore—contin
ued to land along the Malay coast
during the past 24 hours, striking
ahead of the main Japanese inva
sion army <to harass the British
-wrst-flank.
Strong Japanese pressure also
was reported against a British
communications highway running
southeast from the Muar River
sector, 90 miles north of Singapore,
where British, Australian and im
perial Indian troops were strug
gling to halt the main Japanese
onslaught.
lt was in this sector that Tokyo
asserted 20,000 British were
trapped.
A Tokyo broadcast said Japa
nese forces Tuesday captured
Segamat, 93 miles north of Singa
pore, after a seven-day attack
against positions defended hy the
Australian Eighth Division and
fortified to a depth of 35 miles.
At Singapore — Japanese bomb
ers again struck heavily at Brit
ain's $400,000,000 island fortress
today hut paid a high toll. Twelve
of the raiders were officially re
ported shot down amid prolonged
attacks on residential districts. On
the basis of 10 per cent as a heavy
loss, this would indicate that at
least 120 Japanese planes were
used in the assault.
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
asserted that Japanese forces now
striking into British Burma,
China’s backdoor for war sup
plies, “annihilated” defense troops
in an attack near Commeander,
16 miles northeast of Japanese
occupied Tavoy, in southern Bur
ma.
British headquarters at Ran
goon, the Burmese capital, de
dared that Thai-Japanese forces
which struck from the Thailand
border Tuesday toward the im
portant port of Moulmcin in
southern Burma had been checked
near the frontier town of Mya
waddi.
Heavy pressure was evident all
along the British imperial line
across southern Malaya, with the
L unt of the fighting apparently
borne by Australians on the left
flank only 60 miles above Johore
Strait.
On the east coast of the penin
sula, Japanese patrols penetrated
to Endau, abou t 75 miles from
Singapore.
Bombing and fighter planes
blasted at the defense forces seek
ing to clear paths for foot troops
seeking to filter through swamps
and jungles to menace British sup
ply lines.
British headquarters in Singa- j
pere reported about 50 civilians
were killed and 150 wounded in j
an air raid which caused some
damage to military targets and
residential areas of Singapore *
Tuesday.
President Roosevelt aclcnowl- i
edged at a press conference Tues
day that reinforcements and sup- j |
plies were moving to the South
Pacific and reported excellent j
progress ip the operations.
CITIZENS ASKED
TO REGISTER FOR
DEFENSE WORK
Continued fri m Page One
had offered the facilities of sev
eral schools t.o aid with the regis
tration.
Begistering places were listed as
follows: the office of the Defense
Council, in the County Court
House; the Covington High School
gymnasium; Heard-Mixon School;
Livingston School; Covington Mills
School; Mansfield School; New
born School; Starrsville School;
Palmer-Stone School and the Por
lerdale School.
Negro citizens interested in
registering may do so at any negro
school in the county. J. W. Horne,
Negro farm agent, has charge of
this work.
“Some registration has already
been going on in several cities and
towns in the state," said Robert
B. Troutman, of Atlanta, chair
man of the Georgia Citizens De
fense Committee, “but this is the
first occasion upon which citizens
throughout the entire state of
Georgia have been given the op
portunity to signify their willing
ness to take an active part in
civilian protection work.” Persons
who may have registered pre
viously are requested not to regis
ter again, Mr. Campbell said.
The registration beginning tomor
row is for those who have not yet
"joined up,” he added.
There has been considerable
interest in Covington and Newton
county in the campaign to enlist
local citizens in the 14 branches
of civilian defense. Mr. Campbell
has pointed out that,
registration and analysis of
tration cards, special classes of in
struction will be arranged
local volunteers, Each
will consist of minimum
ments which must be met for
worker to qualify for Federal
cognition implied in award of
arm band insignia for the
Volunteers are needed
training as messengers (boys and
girls 13 to 21 years of age), driv
ers, auxiliary firemen and police
men, fire watchers, air raid war
dens, volunteer nurses aides, as
members of rescue squads, bomb
squads, emergency food and hous
ing corps, demolition and clear
ance crews, road repair crews, and
decontamination crews.
The number of instruction hours
necessary to qualify as an active
civilian defense voluntary worker
varies from as few as seven hours
for membership in the Emergency
Food and Housing Corps and 12
hours for Fire Watchers and Road
Repair Crews to as many as 80
hours for Volunteer Nurses’ Aide
and 42 hours for membership in a
Rescue Squad. The 22-hour
course for Messengers consists of
First Aid, 10 hours; ;Fire Defense,
3 hours; Gas Defense. 2 hours;
General Course, 5 hours; Drill,
2 hours.
Oliver Chapman, 61
Passes at Home
Funeral services for Oliver
Chapman, 61-year-old Porterdale
resident, who died Tuesday fol
lowing a lingering illness, were
held yesterday at Carmel Church
in Mansfield. 'Die Rev. L. M.
Lyda and the Rev. C, O. Turner
officiated and burial was in the
Carmel Cemetery.
Mr. Chapman, a native of New
ton County, was a member of the
Covington Mills Methodist Church.
He was well known in the County
and leaves a wide circle of friends.
Survivors include his wife Mrs.
Ella Baugham Chapman, two sons,
Pelham Chapman, of Washington,
D. C.; and Thomas Chapman, of
Porterdale; four daughters, Mrs.
K, P. Crumbley, of Conyers, Mrs.
R- R- Lester, of this C ity, Mrs
I ,an ^ Savage, of Porterdale, and
Miss Nellie Chapman, also of
Porterdale; six brothers, William,
Johnnie, Henry, Miles, Otis and
Edgar Chapman, all residents of
Newton C.ounty, and five sister
Etta Lindsey and Mrs. E. J Capes,
Covington, Mrs, L. A- Rosen
f »*rry, Mrs Dave Thompson and !
County Mrs. Edd Reagan, all of Newton j
The News extends sympathy to
the members of the bereaved fam
ily and to the many friends. J. C.
Harwell A Son, funeral directors,
had charge oX the arrangements.
SECOND SECTION OF
YOUR COUNTY
NEWSPAPER
NUMBER 4
34IH DISTRICT SENATOR TO COME
FROM ROCKDALE IN NEXT ELECTION
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ty two successive terms in the
Senate, to repeat next session.
The 1941 State Senate had two
members from the 1939 body—
Dixon Smith of Columbus and
Ben Fortson of Washington. Their
service was possible because
I Wilkes in the Fiftieth District and
j j Muscogee given in additional the Twenty Fourth
were “rotation
terms" by the committees in their
; districts,
i Legislation introduced In 1941
by Senator Pat Campbell of Cov
| ington of the 34th forbids any
] county either to waive or post
pone its turn to supply a member
of the upper body.
T he practice of waiving arose
from a desire to continue in of
fice some political leader, V
waiver hy Treutlen county in 1938,
enabling Senale President John
Spivey to return as Senator from
the 16th District resulted in «
bitter contest in that district in
1940, with primariec in two coun
ties
The “rotation rule” will mean
that Senale President Charles D.
Red wine will not be a member of
the 1943 body Political rumrrs
continue that Mr. Redwine will
return to the Assembly as a mem
her of the House from Fayette
county and will be a candidate
for Speaker in the event Speaker
Randall Evans. Is a candidate for
Attorney-General, a s is now an
ticipated in political circles.
Under the present set up tlv«
next Senator from the 34th Dis
trict, of which Newton County f»
a part, along with Rockdale and
DeKalb, will be from Rockdale
County.
Kiwanis Club To
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Continued from Page One
Rheberg, Rev. J. Foster Young.
Committee member J. Foster
Young will speak to the club for
the committee.
The local club was organized in
1927 with Charles Candler as it,*
first president. There are twelve
Charter members who still have
membership in the club. They
are: Charles Candler. Ike Robert
son, R C. Guinn, E. B. Rogers,
Leon Cohen, Col. C. C. King, A.
L. Loyd, J. E. Philips, Rev. Wal
ker Combs, Dr, W. D. Travis, Dr.
J. R. Sams and R. A. Norris.
These charter members will be
specially honored at the Thurs
day luncheon. They will be seat
ed together and each will be asked
to state in one sentence what he
has liked best about Kiwanis dur
ing his membership in the local
club.
The Board of Directors announc
ed this week that Mr. C. D. Ram
sey has been accepted into mem
bership in the club. He is to be
received into the club at the
Thursday luncheon in a special
formal induction ceremony under
the direction of Col. C. C. King.
Chairman of the Committee on
Kiwanis Education, Laws and
Regulations.
Hickman Speaks on
Proposed Airport
Continued from Page One
Forrester. A short talk on the
work of this organization was then
made by Mr. Forrester.
President MeGahee then intro
duced R. G. Hickman, of the Mu
nicipal Airport Division of Rob
erts Company in Atlanta. Mr.
Hickman made a most interesting
talk on the proposed airport for
Covington and stated that today
airports were like railroad sta
tions used to be, few and far be
tween, and the cities that had
these stations were the ones who
got ahead. He added that every
city would almost be obliged to
have an airport after the war be
cause the planes would be used
by nearly every person. He stat
ed that he had an airplane about
five years ago, but could very
seldom use it, because there were
so few airports at that time. The
U. S. Navy is at the present time
interested in securing sites for
these airports around Atlanta, and
there is a possibility that Cov
ington may be the right spot,
Increasing supplies of home
g ro wn food and feed are neces
sary toward a complete victory
over the Japs and Germans.
Livestock should have free ac
cess to clean, fresh wales at all
times.