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day evening at 8:30 we
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Ho ly Ground. no
•ould have been more
1 jr the double wedding
which united in mar
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of Honor . . . best men
iers and we did not see
ore after our own Mr.
ad Mr. Wick placed the
blonde and brunette sis
he hands of their sweet
i be made man and wife
®usiq rendered by Mrs.
fuck, the soft glow of
of slender white tapers
eritable garden of palms
urns of snow white glads
. white asters . . . the
our own lovely Turner
I,. And Gosh! there we
a mere Office Boy try
lie [lovelier it all in ... never have
brides in their
wedding gowns and veils
of long, long ago ... as
hived thru those sacred
[ of long, long ago ... as
led with them the sacred
, but as happy as each
fas we somehow always
i feeling in their hearts
pang like the point of a
t giving up our sons and
s... the earnest prayer
iete happiness, peace and
tiding ... a perfect home
J I do, the joy of gaining two
Iv sons on the one hand
liters on the other. Then
D looked at the smiling
(he two happy couples we
! help but turn back, at
|tion which followed the
land look at the other two
, . Dr. and Mrs.
t seemed too perfect ...
Mr. and Mrs. Porter arc
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iail Dispatch
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k announced a change in
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effort to conserve tires
the truck will leave Cov
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la at noon. The difference
P ar >d new schedules
|>r e time for making the
be included in the sacks
P l 10 A, M. must be de
h the post office not later
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Enterprise, E s t. 1864.
r- v MONDAY
❖ WILL OPEN NEXT MORNING
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Mrs. Branch Speaks - Tonight - For China - Relief
REGISTER FRIDAY
AT GYMNASIUM
Units In County System
Will Start Classes On
Monday Morning; EAO
Opens September 22.
Schools in Newton County will
open next Monday morning, of
ficials said this week, with
gisteration to begin tomorrow
morning at 9 A. M.
C. E. Hawkins, superintendent of
the City School system, said that
registration would be held in the
School gymnaisum at nine o’clock.
Beginning Monday morning the
schools will open at 8:45 A. M.
Opening exercises will be held
Monday morning with Rev. J.
Foster Young, pastor of the
thodist Church and A.
Dennis, NEWS publisher, as the
j principal speakers,
j Mr. Hawkins said that a physi
j eal education program had been
i planned for every child in the
j school this year. Not much em
phasis will be placed on basket
ball he added. A new course, a
j class in Current Events, will also
j be available to Juniors and Seniors
he continued.
New teachers in the City School |
(Continued on Page Seven)
*%■! Bibo I- IT Employees I To T |
a* r UlU > InffPR^P
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And Week| V Bonus
In addition to a big increase in
\ pay on all jobs, all employees
| within the Bibb mill yards who
I do a full week’s work will receive
a two doUar bonus in their pay
check e ff ec tive last Monday. This
* ,he
1 A general advance in wages in
addition to the two dollar bonus
I will go into effect at the samel
time, that will vary according to j
the type of work the employee is,
doing but will average about sev
en and one-half per cent, announcing a com-1
pany official said in
the fourth wage advance in the
mills of the Bibb since April,
,
1941, bringing the total advance
(Continued on Page Five)
Due to current war conditions
is
tire quotas
must be reduced in order that the !
Country as a whole may be kept
within the year’s quota of rubber (
allotted by the War Production i
Board.
Local War Price and Rationing
Boards ha^e a tremendous job con- i
fronting them in that they must
allow certificates for tires only to
those vehicles most essential to the
war effort and to the community.
Tire a0use and neglect can not
, . lt ou even from these most
0,1 I’-itioning Board has full an
thoritv to* deny tires to an appli
his tires by overloading and ex
„ Mr
A * n vehicles can and must use
numb er of recapped
; i tia! o unc tions of the
t,re9 V-„ ‘community to
war effort 1P and (1 are
•
be maint ained. Every appheant
(Cont inued on Page Seven)
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Beware. Japs, Here Comes The Marines
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This is a Jap’s slant-eye view of how the fighting U. S. Marines look during an invasion. Heavily armed and thirsting for battle,
these Marines leap from their landing boat and charge upon the enemy. Scenes such as this took place in the Solomon Islands during
the first Allied offensive of the war, and will be re-enacted in future offensives in the Pacific. (Official USMC Photo.)
Future Farmers
Close Meeting At
Jackson Lake Camp
Warren Luckey, of Harlem, has
been named president of the Geor
gia Future Farmers organization
for the coming year, T. G. Walters,
executive secretary, announced
this week. He was elected to
succeed Joseph Hood, of Com
merce.
The new president, selected at
the close of the annual FFA con
vention at Jackson Lake, was
awarded the vocational medal for
the most outstanding agricultural
for l941-’42. He also received
several other honors, including a
(Continued on Page Seven)
Prof. Lee Harwell
T DptflAff MAfirlay
For Army Service
Professor C. Lee Harwell, since
.1936 head of the history depart
ment at Emory Junior College, will
report for active Army duty at
Fort McPherson Monday morning.
After preliminary training at Fort
McPherson, Professor Harwell will
become a candidate for officers
schooL
Professor Harwell is a graduate
Emory University In Atlanta,
He is a member of the Alpha Tau
omega social fraternity and Phi
Beta Kappa.
During the absence of Professor
Harwell his wife will reside with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Sanders, in Covington.
Severe Cut In Tire
Quota Predicted
FORMS FOR SOLDIER'S VICTORY MAIL
ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT POST OFFICE
Letters Are Photographed With Micro Film
The V-Mail Service, inaugurated
cn June 15, 1942, by the Post Of
fice Is now past the experimental
stage, with each week showing
large increases in the number of
letters mailed to American soldr
iers overseas, E. L.
postmaster, said this week.
The War Department has in
creased its facilities to handle
promptly the volume expected in
the future.
Facilities for photographing and
reproducing V-Mail to and from
• the United States and the British
Isles, Australia, India, Hawaii and
other points are now in operation,
A similar service is being planned
for Iceland and other points where
the volume may warrant.
Pointing i wuu out that V-Mail pro
of .
vides a safe means commumca
tion with members of our Armed
Forces, Mr. Stephenson gave as
surance that the film (upon which
the communications are reproduc
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Agricultural News
By County Agent
The first 1942 cotton was ginned
and sold in the county Tuesday.
Not just one bale but four bales
went to market. Homer Holifield
brought the first bale to Coving
ton, and J. H. Dalton and Charlie
Knight, on the Perry farm, car
ried three bales to Mansfield.
Mr. Holifield’s cotton was gin
ned at Nixon and Porter Gin. The
bale weighed 562 pounds, graded
Middling and was bought by T. H.
Barnes at 20 cents. This is the
fourth consecutive year that Mr.
Holifield has had the first bale
(Continued on Page Seven)
School Heads'Ready For New Year
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c t y School Sy^.^^'hooishee nextMontay n0 ed everything in
| readiness for the opening of schools nere next Monday.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1942.
Allied Planes In
Pacific Smash Ai
Japanese Convoy
The battle of the Solomons ap
parently was raging with increas
ed fury and in a widening area
yesterday as the Japanese rushed
reinforcements for a huge armada
seeking to recapture Americaji
held shore bases.
Locked in thunderous sea and
air engagements which may pos
sibly determine naval supremacy
of the Pacific, American froots
inflicted severe damage on en
emy warships and planes in the
southeastern group of the Solo
mons, while about 450 miles west
Allied planes from General Mac
(Continued on Page Seven)
Major M.N. Pharr
Reported Missing
In Pacific Action
Major Marion N. Pharr, who has
distinguished himself in the United
States flying service since his en
listment six years ago, has been
reported as missing in action
somewhere in the Pacific since
August 7, according to information
received from the War Depart-1
ment Sunday by his wife, who now
is in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Pharr in
formed relatives here of the mes-
edl are given the most expeditious
dispatch available. Because of the
small space taken up by the rolls
of film, they often can be carried
or. ferry planes or bombers,
Every pound of weight which
caot be saved on air transports
overseas, said Mr. Stephenson,
means "that an equivalent amount
of weight can be allotted vital mili
tar y material,
In recognition of this, and in an
effort to insure delivery of mail
to as many men as possible at
overseas destinations when space
1P limited, tne Mar and Navy -
parttaents have directed that V
Mai l be given priority in dispatch
over a11 other classes - including
mail — when transportation
facilities under control of those
departments . r are used,
V-Mail letter sheets have been
distributed at all post offices; and
have been provided all military
and naval personnel at overseas
points through Army and Navy
post offices and military channels.
They are available at the Coving
ton Post Office.
Private firms and Individuals
have also been permitted by the
Post Office Department to re
produce the letter sheets. The
sheets also will be available soon
to all stores selling stationery.
V-Mail Service provides for the
use p a t rons 0 f a special letter
sheet from which is a combination
letter and envelope of uniform
size and design. The patron writes
his message, completes the name
and address of the addressee and
the return card in the space pru
vided, folds, seals, and mails the
letter in the usual manner. Pat
runs are warned that only the in
j ner or letter side of V-Mail le 1 iers
are photographed, and should be
j careful to show the complete ad
(Continued on Page SevenY
Major Pharr is a newphew of
Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Sams, of this
City and the son of the late L. J.
Pharr, prominent Rockdale County
j physician.
Having been promoted from cap
j (Continued on Page Seven)
| j Newfon Boy Now
in Aircraft Plant
A Newton County boy, Samuel
! Cole of Mansfield, has enlisted in
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on the home front receiving
several months of training and
work experience at the War Pro
duction Training Project operated
by the National Youth Administra
tion at West Georgia College in
Carrollton.
Trained in the machine shop at
the West Georgia Resident Center,
Young Cole is now employed as
■ a machinist by the Glenn L. Mar
tin Aircraft Company in Balti
more, Md„ designers of the famous
Mars Flying boat. He is the son
,
Mansfield.
C ° 6 ‘ S T f h th , °
few months by the National Youth
^.jUs- n d sound work habits which
qua ' ied h m b f. Wv ' ing
shops on a full , * time Productior
basis, actuary produc.ng valuable
l » articles while in training. 1
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5c SINGLE COPY
KIWANIANS TO
HEAR SPEAKER
AT MEET TODAY
Mrs. Branch Well-Known
To Civic Organizations
As Forceful, Dynamic
Speaker,
Today at noon the Covington
Kiwanis Club will climax its sum
mer meetings and feature an ad
dress by Mrs. J. R. B. Branch, of ;
Macon on “China As I Know It.”
Mrs. Branch, wife of a noted
surgeon, was for twenty-five years
a resident of China. Before she
left she witnessed some of the
j bombings and atrocities which al
most daily occur in that blood
stained, ancient country. The
stories she tells are most vivid to
her because she was an eye wit
ness of them. Her graphic descrip
tions of conditions and needs in
China are fair and overpowering.
TO OPEN
FOR
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Lecture Tonight At
Methodist Church Will
Describe Warfare In
Far East.
Mrs. J. R. B. Branch, for 25
years a resident of China, will
speak here tonight at the Metho
dist Church at 8;30 o’clock, on
the eve of a County-wide campaign
to secure funds for the United
China Relief organization.
Tomorrow morning a group of
local citizens will start an inten
sified drive to secure contributions
for the relief fund. The goal for
Newton County was announced as
?800.
Mrs. Branch, for many years' an
outstanding leader in the Amer
ican colony in Shanghai, is th«
wife of a well known surgeon. Foi
a number of years he was connect
ed with the National Medical
School in Shanghai and it was dur«»
ing that time that Mrs. Branch se«
cured her first hand information
that makes her 'addresses extre*
mely interesting.
Mrs. Branch was in Shanghai
when Japanese planes and troop*
| bombed that City, thus her ac
counts on warfare in the far east
j is authentic as well as inlorma
tive.
With America's entry into the
war Dr. and Mrs. Branch returned
to the United States and are now
making their home in Macon,
Since her return, Mrs. Branch has
been in great demand as a speaker
and has spoken before numerous
organizations in this Country. She
has also written many articles for
publication in newspapers and ma
gazines.
Prior to her talk tonight at th*
(Continued on Page Seven)
Officers Named
For EAO Societies
At a meeting this week of the
Phi Gamma Literary Society of
Emory Junior College, Harvey
Estes, of Gay, was named presid
ent; James Sanders, of Covington,
vice president; and Harris Pierce,
of Covington, secretary-treasurer.
Few Literary Society officer*
are Charles Richards, of Greens
toro, president; Warren Swain, of
Baxley, vice president; and Gor
don Hanson, of Savannah, secre
tary-treasurer.
Fred Smith, of Cedartown, is
program chairman for Phi Gamma
and Jack Holland, of Lawrence
ville, is program chairman for
Few.
Kivvanian Belmont Dennis, edit
or of the News, was in Atlanta
one week ago and heard Mrs
Branch speak to the Atlanta Kiw
anis Club. The address as he heard
it was so pointedly appropriate
and so vivid in its pieturization of
the whole war picture that he
wrote an editorial for the News in
which he stated that it was “one
of the most interesting and force
ful indictments of apathy in the
(Continued on Page Seven)
Oxford Mother Is
i
I ( Anxiously Wailing
■ For Son's Return
When the Gripsholm , landed In
j New York last night, one of the
happiest and most arfxious people
in Atlanta was Mrs. Alice Turner,
retired dormitory matron at Em
ory University, who was nervously
awaiting a call from her son, Wil
liam T. Turner, second secretary
to the Tokyo embassy until Pearl
Harbor, who was on that ship.
Mrs. Turner, who completed 19
years’ service at Emory last year,
now lives at Emory-at-Oxford, but
this week she’s visiting the home
of Dr. Nat G. Long, pastor of the
Glenn Memorial church in Atlanta.
She and her husband, Dr. William
T. Turner, were missionaries to
Japan until her husband's deatfi
30 years ago.
Her son was born in Japan. But
he graduated from Emory in 1931.
Since that time, Turner, an ex
pert in foreign languages, has been
a member of the United States
diplomatic corps. First, he went
(Continued on Page Seven)
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Above is Mitchell Wright in a characteristic pose at his drawing
board as it appeared recently in the Augusta Chronicle as he mad*
his bow as editorial page cartoonist. His cartoons also appear in the
Macon Daily News and the Atlanta Constitution carries a comic
strip b> him in the Sunday colored comics. He is the son of Dr. and
rs W. C. Wright of this city.
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