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Rotary Club was held Tues
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Plans For Summer ram At Salem
MAMMOTH PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION
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Rear Admiral John T. Towers,
chief of the Bureau of Aeronau
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chief of naval operations. In ad
dition to present duties, he will
handle all “appropriate and
duly assigned matters relating
to naval aviation ”
Restrictions Are
Placed On Credit
By Government
New government credit regula
tions restricting the length of
time given purchasers to pay for
articles has been placed on all com
modities and will go into effect
July 10.
These regulations do not mean
that a person will be unable to
get credit. It only limits the time
given for payment and the amount
of down payment. Persons now
having accounts are urged to con
tact their merchant ancf work out
a plan of settlement in order to
keep in good standing under the
government plan.
The regulations released by the
government on credit is as fol
lows:
1. Any person having an account
at any store, other than install
ment purchases, on June 1st must
have this amount paid not later
than July 10. If this amount is not
paid, the purchasers must contact
their merchant and work out a
plan for payment that shall not be
less than $5.00 per month. Other
wise the purchaser’s credit will be
frozen at this store and be can
receive no more credit until the
amount is paid in full. The pui
chaser is given from 5 to 10
months to pay owing to various
conditions. credit
2. Any person buying on
after July 10 must pay this ac
count in full from 40 to 70 days
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Georgia Enterprise. Est. 1864.
Yanks and Aussies Get Together
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‘Strengthening Spiritual
Defenses’ Is Theme for
Annual Meeting To Be
Held in August.
Plans were completed for a
mammoth Fourth of July celebra
tion at Salem Camp Ground at a
meeting of the trustees held this
week at the Salem Camp Ground
Hotel. Nineteen of the 22 trustees
were present. Th trustees are all
prominent laymen of various de
nominations from Atlanta, Cov
ington, Decatur, Conyers and Ea
tonton.
Major R. J. Guinn, president, of
Atlanta, presided at the meeting
ancf considerable business was
transacted. The principal business
was the formulation of the pro
gram for the Fourth of July cele
bration. A detailed program for
the annual camp meeting to be
held August 6 to 16, was submit
ted by Dean George Roach, of
Emory at Oxford, and Parks
Warncock who is in charge of the
young people's program and work.
Belmont Dennis, chairman of the
Fourth of July celebration, sub
mitted a detailed program, with
continuous action from ten o’clock
in the morning until six o’clock
in the afternoon.
The All-girl Georgia Military
Band will be featured throughout
the day from the raising of the
colors at 10 a. m„ to the lower
: ing of colors at 6 p. m. They will
j come 125 strong from Atlanta and
will furnish music for the mili
tary drills by the Home Guard
Units and the Boy Scouts.
The Four-H boys and girls from
all the surrounding territory will
be featured on the program as well
as the Boy Scouts and Home
Guard Units. The morning house
will be filled by the Boy Scouts
and 4-H Club boys and girls, com
munity singing and a patriotic
address by Dr. Louie Newton, pas
tor of the Druid HiUs Baptis t
Church>
Afternoon hours will be featu
red by an old-fashioned barbecue
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Agricultural News
Given By Newton
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County Farm Agent
The rain Wednesday will dam
age a good amount of our grain
crop, This is especially true of
barley. Several farmers have
harvested their barley and those
that have not may be able to save
some of the grain if the land is
smooth so the combine can be i
lowered.
If you are depending on some
one else to harvest your grain you
should make definite arrange
ments with them. If you just
wait for them to come by they may
go the other road and you may
lose your grain crop.
Last year many farmers saved
their straw. This will be a good
practice as the straw can be used
as a roughage or as bedding. Oat
straw contains a higher percent
cottonseed hulls. The straw will
age of digestible food than
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Homer Vernon Cook Will
Serve With Marine Corps
It’s active duty with those
Devil Dogs of the Air—the U. S.
Marine Corps air force—for Hom
er Vernon Cook, of Porterdale,
Ga., it was learned here this
week.
Cook has been commissSoned a
second lieutenant upon completion
of advance flight training at the
Naval Air Station in Corpus
Christi, Texas, and been assigned
to duty with the Devil Dogs.
The son of James Talmadge
Cook, 20 N. Broad St., Porterdale,
he attended Georgia School of
(Technology in Atlanta before en
listing in the 1J. S. Naval Reserve
May 24, 1941.
American soldiers in Australia quickly made themselves at home, and have received a cordial welcome
from the Aussies. Off duty, main object of American soldiers is to make the acquaintance of Aus
tralian girls. Here's a Yank, top left, who’s going to be taken for a bike ride by an attractive Aussie
girl. One American soldier, top right, arrived at an Australian camp clearly indicating that his travels
led to the “U. S. A. via Tokyo.” The Yanks grow their own vegetables in camp, bottom left, and here
two of the soldier-farmers are shown picking them. An Aussie camel, bottom right, receives the atten
tion of interested American soldiers.
NATION'S FIFTH MAN-POWER COUNT SET FOR JUNE
V-1 Naval Program
[ J Now Available For
Students At EAO
Official Navy approval has been
granted Emory Junior College
curricula for V-1, the Naval Re
serve’s new College officer's train
ing program for sophomores,
freshmen, and prospective fresh
men between the ages of 17 and
19 inclusive. Dean George S.
Roach, division executive, receiv
ed the official acceptance of Em
ory Junior College under the V-1
Plan in a letter frofn the Bureau
of Navigation, Washington, D. C.
Enlistment in V-1 immediately
establishes a student’s status in
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To Publish School
Edition Next Week
Due to the failure of several
schools in Newton County to turn
in material for the fifth annual
Newton County School edition, it
will be necessary to delay publi
cation for one Week, NEWS of
ficials announced this week. The
edition will be printed next week
and will be distributed on June
4 ‘
This necessary change in pub
lication date, however, will in no
way lessen the attractiveness of
the school edition. It will con
tain pictures of various graduating
classes, along with such interest
ing items as class histories, wills
and other detail information about
the graduates.
Representatives from various
schools met at the NEWS office
last Friday to make final prepara
tions for the edition. Following
this they were entertained at a
luncheon.
Meanwhile the various schools
in the County are nearing final
commencements. All schools in
the City and County systems
will complete their work tomor
row.
At the Porterdale High School
the graduating class has been busy
for the past few days. On Monday
night a party was held in their
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Young Men Between 18
And 20 Years of Age To
Be Listed in Final
Registration.
President Roosevelt last Friday
j set June 30 as between registration 18 and day for 20
young men
years of age.
The President also called for
registration on June 30 for possi
j-,| e military service of all men
j J reac h e( j 20 years of age after
December 31, 1941, and on or be
/ ore j une 30 ne xt who have not
heretofore been registered,
This will complete for the pres
ent the registration of the nation's
man power for both fighting and
noncombatant war duty, and will
be the fifth registration under ex
isting law.
Men 18 and 19 years of age who
will register between 7 a. m. and
9 p. m. on June 30 will not be
subject to the military draft until
they reach the age of 20.
Males between 20 and 45 are
now subject to military service.
It is estimated that 3,000,000 or
more young men will be affected
by Friday's order, including
2,400,000 of 18 and 19-year-olds
and 600,000 who have turned 20
since December 31 last. Official
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1942 Class At EAO
Plants 61st Tree
At impressive exercises Tues
day morning, the 1942 class of
Emory Junior College planted its
tree on the Oxford campus. The
1942 tree is the 61st that has been
left as a class memorial, the first
dating back to 1881.
Edward “Peaches” Smith, pres
ident of Eta Sigma Psi, presented
the tree to Buddy Bishop, presi
dent of the sophomore graduating
class. In a happy speech, Bishop
accepted the tree for the class and
college.
Preceding the exercises on the
campus, a short devotional pro
gram was given in the chapel. audience In |
the chapel exercises the 1
sang “America, the Beautiful,”
Professor Virgil Y. C. Eady sang
The Tree-Planting Song, and the
Rev. Charles S. Forester offered j
thanks.
At the scene of the planting on
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THURSDAY, MAY 28,1942.
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VFW Will Observe
Memorial Day Here
Sunday Afternoon
The Ollie Bradshaw Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
hold a Memorial Day exercise next
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock,
officials of the organization an
nounced this week.
May 30 is the date set as a Na
tional holiday but the exercises
are being held on Sunday in order
that everyone might have an op
portunity to attend.
A tentative program, prepared
by a special Memorial Day eom
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Revival Services
Will Open Sunday
A series of evangelistic meet
ings will begin Sunday night at
the First Baptist Church, the pas
tor, Rev. Walker Combs, said this I
week.
Two services will be held each
day, with the Rev. H. H. Stem
bridge, pastor of the First Baptist 1
Church of Paris, Tenn., filling the !
pulpit. The evening services are |
to be held at 8:30 P. M. The time
of the morning worship services
will be announced Sunday,
Members of all Covington j
Churches and those not affiliated
with any church are extended a
cordial invitation to attend the
services each day.
Annual P. T. A. Clinic Will
Be Held at School Tuesday
The annual summer clinic, spon
sored by the Covington P.-T.-A.
for pre-school children will be held
next Tuesday at 10 A. M., at the
school, it was announced this
week. Dr. S. L. Waites will be in !
char – e fo the Cllmc -
Ail parents having children who
will enter school this year for the
first time, who have not been j
vaccinated for smallpox, typhoid, s
and diptheria are urged to bring
them to the school next Tuesday
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
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COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL WILL HOLD
FINAL EXERCISES TOMORROW NIGHT;
CLASS DAY EXERCISES FRIDAY P. M.
Van Cochran To Deliver
Valedictory Address;
Rev. Stembridge Will
Speak Sunday.
Thirty-eight members of the
Senior Class of the Covington
High School, having completed
eleven years of academic' work,
will receive their diplomas to
morrow night at the first war-time
commencement held here since the
dark days of the first World War.
First scheduled event of the
graduation exercises will be a
music recital tonight at 8:30 un
der the guidance of Miss Fletcher
Lou Lunsford.
Tomorrow morning at 9:30
o'clock the Class Day exercises
will be held, with the School Band
presenting a musical program.
Tomorrow night the graduating
exercises will be held with all
members of the Senior Class tak
ing part.
The concluding feature will be
the baccalaureate sermon Sunday
morning at the First Baptist
Church at 11:30 o’clock. Rev.
H. H. Stembridge, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Parris,
Tenn., will deliver the message to
the Seniors.
As part of the graduation ex
ercises, Dorothy Lassiter will de
liver a speech of welcome; Caro
line Robinson, will give the his
tory of the class; and Van Coch
ran will give the Valedictory ad
dress.
Other Seniors who have had
active part in the graduating ex
ercises are: Mary Evelyn Wilson,
who wrote the Class poem; Bitsey
Bradshaw, William Crawford and
Martha Parr, who wrote the Class
song; Emily Chapman, who wrote
the Class will, and Hazel Harris,
who wrote the Ciass diary.
The annual Junior Senior Ban
quet was held Friday evening at
the American Legion Hall with
Edmond Jordan, Jr., President of
the Junior Class, in charge. This
banquet is given annually to the
Senior Class by the Juniors who
earn the money to pay the costs
through various plays and other
events.
Kiwanians To See
Cotton Seed Film
The Covington Kiwanis Club an
nounced this week through pro
gram chairman Frank Williams
that a "tour-through-Dixie” pro
gram has been provided for the
Thursday luncheon meeting of the
club. This program is sponsored
by the Agriculture Committee of
which Grady Benton is Chairman
and Robert Fowler is Director in
charge.
The program will be directed by
c M. Allen of Swift and Co., and
will demonstrate some of the va
lues and uses of cotton seed. Prin
cipally the program will consist of
a twenty-minute reel of pictures
dramatizing the value to the
Southern farmer of this great pro
duct of the soil.
President Virgil Eady announc
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Washington as a demonstrator for work on her Maryland farm. The
jeep was loaned to her by the representative of the firm manufac
turing Army jeeps, and he hasn’t been around to pick it up!
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of the Christian Advocate and di»«
tinguished Methodist figure, who
will deliver the literary address to
the 50 graduates of Emory Junior
College at Oxford, Thursday morn
ing, June 4. The exercises will b#
held in the Allen Memorial Church
with Dean George S. Roach pre
siding.
Families of Men <
In Forces Can Now
Get Service Stars
Service Stars in honor of th*
men in American uniforms today
are being distributed to familie*
of service men free of charge un
der the auspices of the Veteran*
of Foreign Wars of the United
States.
In Cooperation with the Coving
ton NEWS and other newspaper*
throughout the country, the V. F.
W„ has launched a nation-wid*
distribution of Service Star win
dow cards to all families repre
sented sons, husbands, father*
or brothers in the Army, Navy or
Marine Corps in the present war.
The cards are free.
Requests are to be sent direct to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States, National Head
quarters, Kansas City, Mo. Else
where in this edition of the NEWS
is printed a description of the
cards and a coupon which may be
clipped, filled out and mailed to
the V. F. W. headquarters.
The cards, produced in red,
white and blue, measure 6x9 in
ches and are designed for display
in the windows of American
homes which are contributing to
Aemrica’s war effort through th*
armed services of their loved ones.
A blue star denotes military
service within the continental
boundaries of the United States. A
silver star indicates service out
side the geographical limits of this
country, and a gold star represent*
a soldier, sailor or marine who
has died.
For instance, any family that
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