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We’ve had a letter from Billy-boy
And. oh, the gladness and the joy
It brought to us! We’ve read it o’er
I’d say a dozen times or more.
We laughed until the teardrops fell
At all the fun he had to tell.
He’s in the Navy, wearing blue,
And everything is all so new
That he can see in youthful style
The funny things to make us smile.
He’s working hard! Between the
lines
We gather that. The brass he
shines
Without complaining, and the food
He gets to eat is perhaps crude.
And yet he laughs at all his chores.
He says the maid who scrubs our
floors
Will have to quit when he returns
Unless a better way she learns.
“I’ve got it on the fairer sex,”
Says he, “since I am swabbing
decks.”
“A sailors life, dear Mom,” writes
he
“Is not the life you picked for me.
And yet I’m getting fat and strong
And learning as I go along
That any life a man can find
Is apt to grow to be a grind
Unless a fellow has the wit
To see the brighter side of it.
Don’t worry for your sailor son:
He sleeps well when his work is
done.”
We've had a letter from Billy-boy,
And, oh, the gladness and the joy
It brought to us! ’Twas good to
know
That he is facing duty so.
Between the lines that he had
penned
His folks bitter fears to end,
I saw his manhood glowing bright
And now I know his heart is right.
Behind the laughter I could see
My boy’s the man I’d hoped he’d
be.
Now just a few apologies to
Edgar Guest for that . . . but we
are so happy to know that this
expresses the letters we receive
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but Boo Hoo! “I would like a p:c
tons «£ PM *
when I open my locker, I like
ot have the good feeling I have
every time I am close to you . . .
you seem so far away but in my
heart you are all very close and
dear.” That boy better quit writ
ing letters like that or we will join
the Navy and go with him . . .
these empty chairs don’t look so
good around here . . . and that
empty room upstairs is simply
closed up. I think this column
is too personal anyway so we had
better turn it into an open letter
to Bill! All the girls ask about
you Bill but last night one said
“Tell Bill he has not written me a
line ...” so I had to tell her that
1 thought she had competition,
for Mrs. Charles King and Mrs. L.
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Dr. Okey Speaks
At Rotary Club
The regular meeting of the
Covington Rotary Club was held
Tuesday noon at the Delaney
Hotel with President W. C. Me
Gahee in charge. The financial
report for the month was mode by
Hoke Randle and Secretary Flet
Cher Dudley announced a good
attendance.
Two guests were introduced as
follows: Wren Thornton and Hen
ry Palmer, Sam Whatley was in
charge of the program and intro
duced Dr. Okey, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church in Mil
ledgeville.
Dr. Okey made a most interest
ing talk on the value of civic or
ganizations and gave a summary
S showed
losing sight of the spiritual things
and were * “
at too gre t a ’ “
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Jf y the club
by the members hpr c of of tne ciuo at
tending
A brief report was made by tne
President on the air field m this
county. Plans were then made to
hold a musical program under the
direction of ^he MiiledgevUie gu is
G. S. C- W. choir on February
27th
Judge Davis Will
Speak Feb. 22 at
Methodist Church
Judge James C. Davis will speak
0n Lavman's Day, Sunday. Feb. 22,
’ First Methodist
at the cfevington
Church. Services will begin at
11:30 The public is in
Vited to attend
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: Salem Trustees ThetT Plans For Summer
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merly the Normandie, before it was destroyed by fire this week in
New York harbor. The giant liner was being remodeled and was
almost ready to be put into service as a Navy vessel.
"SALUTE 10GA.COUNTIES"PROGRAM
TO SALUTE NEWTON COUNTY MARCH
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Summer Session Is
Planned at E. A. 0.
Definite announcement that, i
Emory Junior College at Oxford
would operate this summer was
made this week by Dean George |
S. Roach, division executive.
Dean Roach said the summer ]
session offer full would open June work. 15 Work and j
a quarter of j
given here will parallel courses
on the Emory campus in Atlanta
and will carry the same credit.
Indications are that the enroll
ment for the summer session will
closely approximate that of the
regular school year. Registration
of pre-medical and pre-dental
students is heavy. t
Rev. Jesse Hendley i
To Lead Revival At
Rev. Jesse Hendley, pastor of
the Colonial Hills Baptist Church,
who preaches over radio station
WAGA every day from 10:15 to
11:00 in the morning, will conduct
revival services at the Covington
Mills Baptist Church. These serv
ices will begin Sunday afternoon,
, I ^ 15 at 2:30 °’ clock and
’ . run !
j info the following week.
j j UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
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$6,128.28 PAID IN NEWTON COUNTY
SaVS That Agricultural Secretary
UGCeiVeO nocoiuori BOtrl R ft AU r- » SrtTieFS Kmn - c and __j CongreSS
Because of .he,,
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gation Law in 1941, according to
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet’s annual report just releas
^ Number of payments was re _
ported at 876.
p ayme ‘ nts were made during the
vear lo approx imately 46,000 in
dividua i s in the aEn0U iit of $3,089.
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: ^ tQ bdng the cumulative tota]
510 722,027 since benefits first
becan)e pava b]e.
Both the number of recipients
and amount of benefits were sub
stantially lower than 1.940, the re
! port showed, due to improved
conditions in business employment
resulting from the national de
fense program. Approximately
80,000 individuals were paid $4,-
443.139 the year before,
1 Coincident with the decrease in
benefit payments, the state Em
ployment Service division, which
became a unit of the ledqial gov-
The Covington Star. Jkst 1874.
Georgia Ent«rpri«*. K*t. 1864.
All Performers In
To Be Newton Citizens;
Transcription To Be
Broadcast May 9
A special broadcast honoring
Newton county will be presented
nere ln Covington on March 3,
when station WSB, Atlanta, puts
on an actual radjo show ,n jts
series of “Salute to Georgia Coun
ties” programs.
All musicians and other per
formers appearing on the show
be selected from the citizens
of this county. Before the radio
program is presented, auditions
wall be held by a special commit
tee to select those talented en
tertainers- who are to appear on
the air. WSB will bring its equip
ment to transcribe the entire pro
gram.
Later, on Saturday, May 9, at
6:30 p. m. EDS'f, the show will
be broadcast over WSB.
Persons desiring to appear on
this all-star broadcast may con
tact the office of this newspaper,
Musicians, singers, dancers or
other entertainers are eligible.
Jimmy Bridges, special events
man of WSB. is to be here for the
to supervise the selection of
performers,
Preparations are going forward
to make this one of the county's
(Continued on Page Eight)
a new record - The number
included the placement of workers
on jobs in Georgia and the. re
cruitment of skilled workers for
jobs in Brazil, Great Britain. Pan
ama Cana], Island bases in the
Atlantic and Pacific, and in 14
states from Pennsylvania to Cal
ifornia.
Reflecting the state’s business
and industrial upswing, contribu
tions to the Unemployment
Fund from liable employers at
rate of 2.7 per cent of payrolls
brought in $10,624,995, according
to preliminary figures. This was
increase of approximately 21.3
per cent over 1940 contribution
payments and represented and ex
cess of fund income over benefit
payments of $7,535,762.
The balance in the fund at the
end of December was reported at
S31.212.433, which can be used
only for the payment of
COVINGTON. GEORGIA
MEETING IN JULY
WILL BE STATE
WIDE IN SCOPE
Committee Appointed
To Make Arrangements
Patriotic Celebration
On July 4th.
The trustees of Salim Camp
Ground met Sunday at the De
laney Hotel where they were
luncheon guests of Major R. J.
Guinn, president. Many matters
of business were transacted and
plans made for the annual Fourth
of July celebration and regular
summer Camp meeting.
After luncheon the business
meeting was opened by devotional
service and prayer conducted by
| Major Sidney Cox. Major R. J.
Guinn, president, presided and ex
j j pressed tendance, pleasure at the large at
seventeen out of the
i ! twenty-one directors being pres
ent.
Due to our nation being at war
i it was decided to make this Fourth
of July celebration state wide in
scope. Dr. Louie Newton, pastor
of the Druid Hills Baptist church,
will be invited to make the patri
otic address, and the Salvation
Army band will furnish the music.
Several singing conventions will
be invited to hold their singing on
this date also and it is believed
several thosuand people will gath
er at Salem in honor of this na
| tional holiday and all that it rep
| resents. The committee for ar
rangements consists of Major Sid
I ney Cox, C. O. Nixon, C. D. Ram
i sey, Ed King and Belmont Dennis.
Ike Robertson reported to
| Gumn that, h» had contacted
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Agricultural News
j Given By Newton
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I County Farm
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There will be a meeting Satur
day afternoon, February 14,
discuss farm organization and
Cotton Crop Insurance Program.
The meeting will be in the New
ton County cour1hou.se at 3:00 war
J time. Every farmer, landlord or
sharecropper, should attend this
j meeting as each of the discussions
will be of vital importance to
I every farmer.
The application blanks for Cot
ton Crop Insurance have been re
ceived in this office and wp ex
pect to get the yield and rates by
the end of this week. The yield
and rate for each farm will be
mailed to each farm operator as
soon as possible.
I wish to call to your attention
the check sheet for farm machin
ery that will be found in this issue
of the paper. Take this sheet and
check your equipment and place
your order for needed parts and
materials at once. We have been
advised through reliable sources
that certain parts will be hard to
obtain if not ordired at once. One
of our local dealers stated that.
(overnight service on parts from
(Atlanta is now a thing of the
past.
j 120 farmers have made
for over 325 tons of 20 percent
superphosphate and 225 tons of
ground limestone during the
secure these materials at the fav
, orable prices they are now
off J2f d a t iater the seasom
Th ‘* off j > .' ce w, j °P en at 8:30 A -
,, and . cIose at 5:30 p M - war
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j State TaX Agent
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Filing ** Tax RetlimS
For the purpose of assisting
1 Taxpayers in Newton County
the preparation of their
; tax returns and intangible
' returns, to be filed with the
of Georgia, a State Revenue
[will be sent to Covington on
ruary 28th, 1942.
He will be stationed at
I Court House and will be glad
j serve any cne in connection
, the preparation and/or filing
their returns.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1942.
Arizona Aflame In Pearl Harbor After Jap Attack
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The sky over Pearl Harbor is blackened by smoke from the blazing U. S. S. Arizona during the
sneak attack by Jap forces which plunged the nation into war. Photo released by the U. S. Navy
shows sample of havoc wrought by bombing.
SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD HERE DESIGNATES ELEVEN
PLACES FOR DRAFT REGISTRATION IN COUNTY
Provisions Are Also Made For Men
To Register Early; Only 9 Questions
Fearing that there will be some
j j confusion tion for this over county, the third local Registra- Selective
Service officials this wetk warned
j the men who must register that
the State civilian Defense Corps
is entirely different from the army
registration.
All men between the ages of 20
and 44 who were not eligible In
the last registration must sign up
Monday, Only nine simple ques
[ tions will be asked of men bc
: tween 20 and 44 years of age who
I register for selective service Feb
ruary 16, Brigadier General Sion
! B. Hawkins, state selective service
director, emphasized yesterday.
The local board of Newton
I County has designated the follow
| [next ing places for registration Porterdale-Gym here
Monday;
Building, Mr. Kenneth Harris;
Covington Mills—Office, Mrs. E. B.
Rogers; Oxford—Woman’s Club
Building, Rev. C. E. Forrester;
Heard Mixon—Vocational Build
ing, Mr. Pulliam; Livingston
Gym Building, Mr. Claude Giles;
Mansfield—Blake Hardware Co.,
Mr. Peyton Blake; Newborn— Au
[ditorium, Mr. Marvin Vining:
County 4H Council
Elects Officers
Five of the eight Community
4-H Clubs were represented at the
4-H Council meeting Saturday,
February 7, which was held at the
courthouse at 2:30 P. M. There
were five representatives from the
Covington 4-H Club; three from
Mansfield; one from Heard-Mix
on; one from Newborn; one from
Palmer-Stone.
The election of new officers wai
j the main business who are a« fol
lows: James Skinner of the Cov
ington 4-H Club, President; Hazel
Moon, of Palmer-Stone, Girl’s
Vice-President; Crosson Berry of
Newborn, Boy’s Vice-President;
James Tuggle of Heard-Mixon,
1 | Secretary-Treasurer. Sally Cook
1 read the Constitution and By
j Laws of the Newton County 4-H
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Qn Saturda „ February 27 1942
lhp officers of thp 4 _ H Council
will attend a meeting at Athens
, The report on council activities
was made by Mrs. Sallie Cook.
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farmers || Urged roA J T IO A
B|IV ReairS NOW
Farmers throughout Newton
County were urged this week by
the County Agent to check their
farm implements at once and buy
their needs before the planting
season. Due to the shortage ol
Materials, it is expected that farm
tools, repairs and implements will
be difficult to secure later on and
the government is anxious to see
j that farmers have all necessary
repairs. An advertisement giving
full details may be found else
where in this issue.
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StarrsviUe—Anderson’s Store, Mr.
Henry Anderson; Grave’s Chapel -
School Building, Sylvester Brown,
Jr.; Covington—Court Room, in
Court House, Dr. W. K. Swann;
Covington—205 Turner Memorial
Bldg , Dr. W.„K. Swann.
All of the above places will be
opi n from 7 A. M. until 9 P. M.
I he Selective Service Office, 205
Turner Memorial Building, will be
open for Registration February
14th, from 9 until 5 P, M.; Febru
ary 15th, from 9 until 5 P, M., for
those unable to register Monday
due to emergencies.
Clocks Moved Up
' Hour
in County
Hours for various stores in
Covington and Newton County
were being worked out tins week
as the clocks throughout the na
tion were moved forward one hour
to daylight saving time Monday,
At Porterdale, new hours has
been announced for the mills as
follows: The shift reporting at
11:00 P. M. on Sunday night be
gan reporting at 12:00 P. M. un
der the war time. The morning
shift reporting at 7:00 A. M. be
gan reporting Monday morning at
8:00 A. M. The 3:00 o’clock shift
now reports at 4:00 p. M. The an
nouncement was made by L. R.
Brumby, General Superintendent
of the Bibb Company.
Grocery Stores in Covington
have worked out » plan to open
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AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER
FLAYS WICKARD FOR PRICE
Total of 876 Payments Made During
Past Year, Commissioner Reveals
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard wa » charged with deceit in
1 connection with the farm price
bill in a statement issued this past
; we ek by Georgia Commissioner of
Agriculture Tom Under.
"Henderson and Wickard have
gotten together like two peas in
one pod,” Commissioner Ltnder
charged. “They ar e also together
with Time Magazine, the Wall
Street Journal, the Washington
ft ° st and lht New York Times All
these papers are most unfriendly
.to the farmers’ interest.”
Commissioner Linder declared
- that it takes two and a half times
as much cotton to buy farm sup
plies as it did in 1919.
“For Wickard, Gin-berg, Hen
Baruch and company to
have the gall and effrontery t >
charge the American farmer with
being a hog and causing inflation
is disgusting to thinking men,
jCommisuonei Linder said
“it looks now as though the
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Olfl r , , n KeSerVeS At .
P'dale Have Good
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| Record For Year
Looking back over the
I of the Marihi Pittman Girls
,,j pbe pa g( year one notes
I worthwhile things that have
included in the weekly
as well as the performances
side of the clubroom. The
have held the majority of
meetings In the Pittman home
to the clubroom being occupied.
Two of the most beneficial
patriotic things the girls
done, in keeping with the
al defense program is the
they sponsored for tin foil
participation in a series of
aid demonstrations. Many
of the tin foil and like
were delivered to the British
relief office in Atlanta last
first aid demonstrations
given by Miss Jane
athletic director, and were
ed in a month’s meetings.
valuable things were learned
this course and the girls feel
pable of properly meeting
emergency in case of air raids,
Two of the most worthy
performed outside of the
room were the baskets of
delivered at Thanksgiving and
Christmas to two needy families.
Other activitiis include participa
tion in the grand march and
stallation services of all Girl
serve troops and serving at
including the Old Tim
ers banquet.
time is rapidly approaching when
the only salvation of the
can farmer will be an
tion as strong as the other
which are now able to
in Washington.
“Secretary Wickard
Congress when he appeared
fore the Senate Committee
pretended that he was in
of adequate prices for the
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“He deceived all those
and congressmen who are
of the farmer and who voted
amendments to curb
depredations on the farmer,
“He deceived the farmers
he app< ared before the
Committee and pretended that
not in accord with Leon Hen
derson’s starvation prices fo,
farm products.”
The attitude of Secretary
ard in the price-fixing
eisy has been terr tbly
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NUMBER 7
Allied WdfSllipS
Evacuate Women
And Children
British Troop* Slash
Rack at Japanese In
Counterattack* Which
Are Reported Successes.
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
asserted Wednesday that Japanese
troops entered “the city area of
Singapore’’ at 8 a. m., local time,
even as reports reaching London
declared Singapore's defenders
were staging a desperate, elev
enth-hour rally.
With a population of more than
750,000, the “city area” extends at t
least four or five miles from the
heart of the island metropolis.
A German broadcast said the in
vaders had penetrated the western
part of the city, while waves «f
low-flying Japanese planes blaster!
the downtown district.
London heard that British
troops were slashing back at. the
Japanese siege armies in two vio
lent counterattacks which had net
ted some initial success.
Allied warship sped in anct out
of Singapore Harbor, removing
women and children from the city.
A sudden brightening in the sit
uation came a few hours, after
I/ondon conceded that the fall of
Singapore appeared near—perhaps
only n matter of hours.
Word reaching London said
British, Australian and Imperial
Indian soldiers, defying over
whelming numbers of Japanese
troops, guns and planes “scored
some measure of success” in the
new counteraasaulU,
"The situation is certainly no
worse and indications are that in
some ways it is better,” London
quarters said.
Dome!, official Japanese news
agency, said Japanese assault
forces were preparing to batter
their way into the metropolitan
district today.
Tokyo radio reports acknowl
edged that Japanese troops wert
meeting bitter resistance, and de
clared a big battle of annihilation
was raging in the center of the
island.
Kiwanians Get
District Bulletin
Ijocal Kiwanians received this
week the first pdition of the 1942
Georgia Kiwanian, the bulletin
published periodically hy the Dis
trict Officers for Georgia Kiwan
ians.
Of particularly interest iocally
was the announcement of the pro
gram of the Mid-Winter Confer
ence Wednesday of thi* week at
Macon at the Dempsey Hotel. ”At
this meeting”, stated Mr. F. Fred
Kennedy, District Governor of
Kiwanis, “we shall attempt to give
Kiwanis power and service to the
U. S. War Effort. All club of
ficers are urged to attend.”
Four Covington Kiwanians at
tended the meeting: President
Virgil Kady, Secretary Lee Har
well, John Birch more, and J. Fos
ter Young. The Rev. Mr. Young
is District Chairman of the Corn
niittee on the Support of the
| Churches in Their Spiritual Aims.
The following wa s the announc
ed program of the Conference,
| | which began at ten o’clock A. M.
and concluded at four o’clock:
Singing “America” and “God
(Save the King”.
| Welcome—S. L. Orr, President
Macon Club.
| Address-“Kiwanis Intemation
, a |’s Plans in the War Effort”, Past
| ' Smith. International President Mark
! Address—“Kiwanis Education",
Lt. Governor Charles J. Tbur-
1 1Tlondi Gainesville,
Addre: - S “Youth Service”. Past
District. Governor Ivy Roundtree,
■ Swainsboro.
Address “Citizenship During
Time of War”, District Treasurer
Continued on Page Three
Cub Scouts Collect
Pap©T FOT D©T6flS©
The Cub Scouts of Covington
are collecting wastg papier for de
. fense. Anyone wishing to have
any wa«te paper picked up, please
1 notify Jim Turner of tbe Cub
Scout organization.