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th t Of 8 M g e • • . Oh no! We
rM chained but we
Dt been . . .
pen in since February . . .
L that we are able to get
do not know what to do
urselves . . . Our
has been HI too and it has
ch a joy to be in with her
many little things for her
>body else could do like we
Monday she went to Coch
visit the other half of her
and we feel just as
if our right hand was miss
she plnn s to stay about
I three weeks and those will
, wf eks for us for this old
u9 t rattles without her . , .
| s become the sunshine of
(es since the boys are both
In the service ... we have
ird from either of them re
but the last letter from Bill
1 to believe he was in Ice
altho he cannot say where
were heartbroken that we
Lt [this journey to Washington,
past week-end for one
r old pals, who from the
|rn line of Ancestors from
[he Irn hails, found that truly
girl of his dreams ... a
Ko measures up in every way
| one all boys dream of . . .
Ir family compares favora
i [th Li the one he can so proud
... If it were not for
Idesty . . . Charles King just
I seem to be able to get
| I character, even though his
Sam'' has been trying hard
b that he does that very
, When he was maried up
shington last week, he al
Itepped back into the pages
History books, for he went
k old Georgetown, so rich
pic tradition for his bride,
vely Sally Fairfax Lambe
| mother was the daughter
, and Mrs. James Franklin
ter, of Alexandria, Virginia
a lineal descendent of Lord
k who had a large part in
icing the life of George
hgton ... All this must have
host interesting to our one
Historian of Georgia State
. . . Charles is in the ser
[ Cncle Sam . . , the wedding
very beautiful, was to have
poted Limes for its simplicity in
. . . but m.v oh me!
two young people are so
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ps Being Made j j I
i Registration j
" K. Swann, chairman of |
fvton County Selective Ser-1
Board’, this week reminded
men in the County, be
I the ages 0 f 18 and 20 that
jould Wsible be required to register j
army service on June ,
T 1 who reached their
jeth 1941 birthday and after Decern- '
1° b on or before June
M:- ha ' e not here-to-fore been 1
: Ned will also be required to j
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■ Sw’snn said that full details
Registering places, hours and
■ points of information have
f been completed. They will!
icinced in next week's issue
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RUSSIANS HOLD STRONG AGAINST NAZI DRIVE
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June War Bond Quota For Is
QUOTA IS SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE
OVER MAY MARK; IS EXPECTED TO
REACH TEN PERCENT OF INCOME
Covington Post Office
Reports Sale Of Bonds
And Stamps Totaling
$12,687 In May
Henry Morgen than, Jr„ Secre
tary of the Treasury, this week
made known the .Tune War Bond
quotas for the 3,700 counties in
the Nation. The quota for Newton
County was placed at $22,500, the
State quota being $7,443,500.
The County quotas, based upon
a substantial increase over quotas
for the past month, are expected
to reach ten percent of income
when the Nation goes on a billion
dollar-a-month War Bond basis in
July to help meet the cost of the
war. “Everybody, every pay day,
ten p e r c e n t,” is t h e battlecry
throughout the Nation.
Sales of War Bonds and stamps,
totaling $12,687, were
for the City of Covington by Post
master E. L. Stephenson. These fi
gures are for the Covington Post
Office only and do not include the
securities sold at other Post Of
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Kiwanis Club Will
Participate In
All-Kiwanis Week
Covington Kiwanians will ob
serve All-Kiwanis Week, June 11-
18, joining wi(h the 2.179 other
Kiwanis clubs in the United States
and Canada in a continent-wide
observance stressing twenty-seven |
years of service achievement.
“Our members are joining with j
the 113,500 other Kiwanians in;
United States and Canada to ob- j
serve this occasion,” Virgil Y. C.
Eady. club president, announced
this week.
Kiwanis was founded in Detroit j
on January 21, 1915, and the cele
bration will concentrate attention
on the organization's war program
and the community service results.
“As a service club our 113,500
Kiwanians are united to do a good
war-time job in their communi
ties,” says Charles S. Donley,
Pittsburg, Pa„ president of Kiw
anis International, in a special btil
letin to the local club. “War-time
service is the keynote of today.
Our times call for self-sacrifice,
courage and determination, thrift
and a faith that right will win.”
The program for All-Kiwanis
Week is to be in charge of the local
committee on Kiwanis education.
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Th« O’oTington Star, K.t, 1874
Georgia Eoterpriee. Bst. JS*,.
Canning Prizes
Are Offered To
P dale Gardeners
Victory gardners in Porterdale
who want to can vegetables for
future use will have the use of the
wel-equipped kitchen in the Porter
gym plus the added attraction of
cash prizes of $25 each, to be given
in three different groups for the
most successful canning.
Miss Ruth Tanner, home eco
nomics head in Porterdale, ex
plains the new arrangements in
the following letter.
“Recently a good piece of news
'! as pas8ed out to me and I have j
the privilege of announcing this j
to you.
“Prizes amounting to $25 will
be da ' given e wbo to are nine the persons most successful of Porter- j j
canners. selected from Three each winners of the will follow- he j
IT*" are Three in school, ladies, three three young girls ladies who
who are not in school and who
aren’t married.
“The prizes will be selected upon !
the basis of the finished product
and “We the best variety of products j ;
are indeed proud of the re
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Farmers Urged To |
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Save Spring Straw I I j
Instead of burning the straw
from this springs grain crop Mr.
James P. Knight of the Upper
Ocmulgee River soil conservation
district recommends saving it for
livestock feed or for bedding |
stables next winter.
In view of the increased strain
that will be placed on the land
by the Food-for-Freedom pro
gram, it is important that as much
organic matter as possible be re
turned to the land, Mr, Knight
says. plenty “Compost litter obtained by hav- J
ing of in the barn
stables is an excellent source
of this material.”
Supplemented with proteins and
calcium, grain straw may be used
as roughage for idle work stock
or for wintering beef cattle, the
conservationist points out. Cattle
medium to good condition in
the fall have been wintered satis
on from 12 to 20 pounds
of straw daily, plus one pound of
seed meal.
120 FSA Families
Compete For Award |
“Victory gardens will be the
order of the day in Newton Coun- i
ty when the 120 Farm Security j
Administration families begin
competition for the patriotic color- I
ed red, white and blue Victory j
Garden signs to be offered by the j
FSA to the families haring the
best gardens, Mrs. J. H. Boat
right, Home Management Super
visor, announced this week.
For a garden to qualify as a
Victory garden it must be at least
14 of an acre and fenced in. In
addition, Mrs. Boatright said, the
spring and summer gardens must
contain a minimum of 12 vege
tables and the winter gardens
must have at least five vegetables.
The period covering a summer
garden runs from April 1 to Oc- j
tober 1, and the winter garden
embraces the months from Oc
tober to April.
According to Mrs. Boatright,
the gardens will be judged in
July and the Victory garden signs
I awarded to those families who
! have met all qualifications.
The purpose of the gardening
j campaign is t<? spur food produc- ;
(ion not only in Newton County
j but over the state as a whole.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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jeeps can do in plowing a field and preparing the seedbed. Post-war salvage uses for the versatile i
blitz-buggies are being flbnsidered.
PRESIDENT ORDERS NATION TO SALVAGE RUBBER;
ACTION DELAYED ON EAST-COAST GAS - RATIONING
No Increased Allowances Are Likely Until
Nation-Wide Two-Week Drive Is Completed
A nationwide campaign to col
leet scrap rubber was announced
today by President Roosevelt. The
chief executive set no date for the
drive, but expressed the hope that
it could be started shortly and con
pleted two weeks after it was in
augurated.
He indicated there would be no
expansion of the present eastern
seaboard gasoline rationing at I j
until after the results of the
campaign were known. National
rationing had been sug
in some quarters as a mea
to conservatives, possibly
around mid-July.
One of the major problems in
in the current gasoline- j
situation, the President told j
press conference, is the fact j
there are no accurate esti
on the amount of scrap rub
available.
No two persons agree on the
he said. The only way to
the quantity, he continu
was through a pick-up-the
campaign—a quick, snappy
to bring it in. The gov
he let it be known, would
over the scrap originally, but
it would then be allocated
civilian or military use was
that would have to be
He told a questioner that the col
campaign would be volun
the extent that if it were
entirely successful it would
compulsory.
Mr. Roosevelt remarked that
was a nationwide matter,
the gasoline problem was
principally to the east
seaboard, the Pacfic north-
Newton County Contributes $121.98
In Drive For Navy Relief Society
Newton County citizens contributed $121.98 for the Navy
Relief Society, according to a final report made this week by
Belmont Dennis, County Chairman.
A check for this amount has been transmitted to Mills B.
Lane Jr., Atlanta, State Chairman. The funds will be used by
the Relief Society to aid the families of Naval men in times of
distress.
The final tabulation showed the following contributions:
Covington Kiwanis Club ____$42.00
Covington Rotary Club™ _ 27.00
Miss Margaret King______ 1.00
A. Gerstein............. 5.00
J. T, Holmes__________ 3.00
Palmer Stone School____ ___5.16
Starrsville School_______ 4.46
Mansfield School________ 7.91 i
Porterdale School------ _ 10.00
Covington Mills_________ 8.55 ;
Livingston School_________ 4.30
Heard-Mixon School_______ 3.60
TOTAL ______.... $121.98
Mr. Lane expressed appreciation bo the contributors in a
letter acknowledging the contribution. Chairman Dennis was
presented with a Naval insignia pin tor his participation in the
drive.
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west and a few isolated points far
from the sources of supply.
Whether the two situations can
be eomple t ely dissociated, he
Rld . depends how the pickup
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campaign turns out and the facts
eve ope rom 1 '
’ Php President likened the rub
ber situ at j on to a "W^ry novel
and , said j that so far he had only
read the first chapter and did not
know how it would end. Neither,
he said, had he determined wheth
er he would make a fireside chat
to the people on the supject, not
ing there were four or five ways
of keeping them informed.
Prior to the press conference the
President discussed the gasoline
and rubber problems with Senator
Murray, Democrat. Montana, who
predicted afterward that ways
would be found to keep approxi
mately 20,000.000 automobiles in
operation to maintain civilian;
economy during the war.
A bill to permit allocation of j
sufficient crude and reclaimed rub
ber to permit operation of that I
number of cars is now pending
before a senate committee and was
supported today by Glenn L. Mar-j
tin. airplane manufacturer.
Murray said the chief executive j
was giving the entire matter 1
“earnest study.”
While Martin testified briefly ’
before the Senate Banking Com j
mittee on behalf of the rubber al- I
location measure introduced by
Senator Ellender, Democrat, Lou- j
isiana, Arthur Newhall, WPA rub
ber co-ordinator, warned a Sen
ate Agriculture Subcommittee the j
armed services would require all
the rubber “we see in sight for the
next two years.”
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Support Farmers
| In Fall Election
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Tom L in( j er Georgia Commis
! sioner of Agriculture, renewed his
pledge of support for the farmers
0 f the State this week and charged
Democratic party leaders with in
consistency as a result of a new
Democratic Committee rule
ring an official with an unexpired
term from seeking another office.
Commenting on the refusal of
Chairman Janies S. Peters to re
convene the state committee for
revocation of the rule that would
compel him to resign to make the
race for the Senate or governor
ship, Commissioner Linder said;
“I understand that the chair
man of the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee has declined to
reconvene the committee for the
nurpose of revoking the undemo-j
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Horses and mules should be rl
lowed to rest at regular intervals
in the fields on extremely hot
days. Workstock need a short
rest in the shade occasionally and [
plenty of water to drink.
Do not allow a hot animal to :
too much cold water at one
time. Also the heaviest feed j
should be given at night arid the 1
horse or mule have the run of a ■
or pasture during the night. 1
Overheating may react in two
ways on a horse or mule.
before a sunstroke, the
animal walks rapidly and lifts;
the feet high. Then it stops, j
its head, begins to stagger,
soon falls, unconscious. [
is heavy. Sweat breaks i
in patches over the body, and ’
animal often dies without re
consciousness.
In the case of heat exhaustion,
horse or mule usually re
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Committee To
Saturday Afternoon
A meeting of the Newton j
Executive Committee will
be held Saturday afternoon at 3:30
M„ in the Grand Jury room in
Court House, Reuben M. Tuck
and H. G. Smith, secre
announced this
The committee will fix entrance
and closing date for the State
primary election for
House officers and for other
Chairman Tuck said.
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
GERMANS MASS POWERFUL FORCES
IN NARROW SECTOR BUT FAIL TO
TAKE SINGLE LINE HELD BY REDS
Four 4-H Members
Will Attend Stale
Meeting In Macon
Using the theme, “4-H Clubs
Answer the Call to Service,” 500
Georgia 4-H boys and girls gather
at Wesleyan College, Macon Mon
day for their annual weeks State
4-H Club Council conference.
James Skinner, president of the
Newton County 4-H Council; Sal
lie Cook, publicity chairman;
Hazel Moon, girl's vice-president,
and W. L. Barbour, member of the
Mansfield 4-H Club will represent
Newton County. They will be ac
companied by Miss Eddye Ross,
Home Demonstration, and J. W
Scoggins, County Agent.
Two club boys and two girls
from every county in the state are
eligible to attend. They will meet
to outline plans for greater food
and feed production, talk over the
situation of morale, and in between
times listen to some of the state’s
most outstanding speakers.
The program begins Monday,
June 15, and will end Saturday,
June 20, acording to W. A. Sutton,
Jr., state 4-H leader for the Ex
tension Service in Georgia.
P. Donaldson, Abraham
, Agricultural College, Tifton,
be in charge of recreation.
Speakers include Dr.
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| Rofarians Hear
J. Foster Young At
Regular Meeting
The regular meeting of the Cov
ington Rotary Club was held
Tuesday noon at the Delaney Hotel
with Past-president Guy Robinson
presiding in the absence of W, C.
MeGahee.
The meeting was opened with
the song, “America” followed by
prayer led by the Rev. C. C. Hamil
ton. A committee was appointed
to work with the Kiwanis Club in
making arrangements to hold two
meetings at some other location
giving the Delaney Hotel emplo
yees two weeks vacation. Those
named on this committee were
Ross Chambers and Jim McKay.
Guy Robinson then introduced
the Rev. J. Foster Youny; of the
First Methodist Church in Coving
ton. who made a most interesting
talk on “Taking a Chance." He
Stated that we should be sure of J
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NUMBER 24
Thousands O f Nazi
Dead Litter Fields
Following Repeated
Assaults on Base.
The Russion defenders of Se
bastopol have not yielded a “single
line" to the Germans, although
the fight for the besieged Crimean
port hourl y grows more intense,
with the Germans incessantly at
backing by land and in the air,
® ov i e t reports declared Wednes
Dispatches to Red Star, Russian
am D newspaper, frankly said
German infantry had penetrated
to a hil, V sector where the Nazis
were trying to take two heights,
bu ^ these reports added tha t the
battle generally still raged at
: those approaches to the city about
wbic h it began last Friday.
“Not a single line held by th 3
defenders of thee ity has bee
seized by the enemy,” the Re
Star dispatch said.
In the air, the reports added,
German planes have broken
through Soviet defense at some
| pomts to bomb fortifications.
The Germans followed their fa
vorite course of massing powerful
aerial forces in a narrow sector to
obtain full mastery of the skie*
and pound ground troops into sub
mission, but Red Star raid the
Russian air force constantly en
gaged the enemy.
Along the low, barren hill*
around Sebastopol, the Russians
j said, approaches to Red army
fortifications were covered with
“thousands of bodies” over which
the Germans rushed repeatedly
for fierce assaults.
(A Berlin military spokesman
said the Sebastopol garrison
i “demonstrated particular skill in
building trenches, camouflaging
and laying mines” and that Ger
man troops had to fight for every
foot of soil in the five-day-old
offensive.)
Instead of the usual paragraph,
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Window Cards Are
Still Available Here
Symbolie of the pride and pray
ers of millions of American home*
today, Service Star window card*
being distributed by the Veterans
of Foreign Wars of the United
States represent the boys and
young men in Uncle Sam's fight
ing forces today.
Every family in Newton County
an d vicinity, is invited to request
one of the Service Star window
cards from the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States,
National Headquarters, Kansas
City, Mo.