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■. T his week was a
W'’• a --e full o com
fl were mnlled to death
■ t a i| had to see their
K n Mian la . . • certain
K etc. tor X-rays and
K and the straw that
camels back was that
fIL Ma llarcl, who is visit *
■° t / his Mother and Dad
Khran, had to have his
. Shux. we wish it had
fl? - ce pt we didn’t have
Kj such a little man he
■e returned Com the hos
flcav grunting around in
fl? king and has not com-
■ he f ir st time' Four years
K exen his Daddy nearly
K th e thought of having
■ We can learn a lot from
fllun if we try . . . which
H\s Sonny Boy has just
fl, D each. and after play
fl waxes ail afternoon one
■ loosed up that night, as
■about tu fall asleep . . .
■ -J of those waves that
fl ® down every time he
■ and 'aid, ‘ Muvver-dear,
fl Swimming Pool work
fl ALL the time.” That
■ a bigger ’ Thwimming
Enour children think . . ,
■w-cr it comes to war we
Er it’s’ our CHILDREN,
Ecvn UP- that they take
Eut there in the sea, be-
Ey are not afra *d •• • they
E not knowing the real
■.. Yes. when it comes to
■zed job . . . they call the
■of the land to do it!
E'ohd! Too deep a sub
fl mere Office Boy!
■ Ham 'on, Pastor of the
E an Church here, we
E'ote a "Tar Heel” him
flnS lived ' n Charlotte,
flaro' n? long enough to
E'e ”'a- tar <we got ours
fl® • We were quite in
■ n a picture we saw this
flinued on Page Seven)
|ers Urged To
lest Seed Crop
E" n tannei s to harvest all
E i :«••• seed possible
E mer an( l full, .James P.
E°‘ the I’pper Ocmulgee
fl conservation district
fl week that seed of these
E^t be harvested on the
E n ado; .die supply is to
E^k f ur planting next
fl-. e>Apeas. soybeans,
fl and se: wea lespedeza
flm>re mportant legume
fl cail be saved.” he said.
x.wd irom Dallis
fl 6 ' B !ass ran be harvest
flint' e t that adequate
fl ' 'uese crops that will
fl' : ln "'i ying out farm
U plans and also in
fl- conserving prac
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■IST CHURCH HAS BEEN SERVED
| PASTORS IN PAST 119 YEARS
Been Members Attended First Meeting Os
Bthln June, 1823; $5 Paid For First Site
e twenty-first of June,
teen men and women met
and const,tued a Baptist
n the town of Covington,
niters of the faith. Revs,
ev, Luke Robinson and
Pace were the Constitut
and Francis Cook
edt ' pro-tem of the meet
the record book these
subscribed their names.
Colley became the first
d on March 6, 1824 the
grown sufficiently to
* a "os Os land on the
e of Dried Indian Creek,
^nifident sum of $5.00
J Ist, 1826. they cleared
at a cost of $13.00 and
* Section of the house
W't where the Negro
e stands in this year
J y h belonged to the
•ssociation and some
in ( , si ^ n ^' ca nt notes are
' days. On July 3,
s ” ution was passed
could" 1 f oot ' washin g un
into their new
. d ,t; was the first man
° Ct ' 2 ’ 1824 ’
was prolific in
aM T ?? BUrer was John
f ‘ rSt deacons -
Ms Geor &e Daniel
r " ade Preacher). The
o la 7 niber admitted was
the property of
W She Couimiton Ketog
Volume 78
STATE PRIMARY ELECU.. .EXT WEDNESDAY
Baptist Church To Honor Pastor Hext Sunday
SPECIAL PROGRAM COMMEMORATES
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF CONTINUOUS
SERVICE BY REV. WALKER COMBS
Representatives Os
Other Churches to Have
Part On Sunday Night
Program.
Appreciation of 25 years of
faithful service will be expressed
next Sunday by the. members of
the First Baptist Church with
special programs arranged for the
morning and evening services,
marking the completion of 25 con
tinous years of service by the Rev.
Walker Combs, pastor of the
Church.
Church records show that it was
in September, 1917 that Rev.
Combs came to the Baptist Church
to assume his duties over a pas
tcrate with only 192 members, only
six rooms in the Church structures
and no B. Y. P. U. organization.
The ensuing years brought
(Continued on Page Seven)
Rationing Board
Issues 65 New Tire
Permits In August
The Newton County Rationing
Board issued permits for 65 new
tires, 58 new tubes, 89 recapped
tires, three passenger cars and 12
bicycles, a monthly report, releas
ed this weak reveals.
Twelve of the new tires were
for use on passenger cars white
53 were for use on trucks. Twenty
three of the truck tire permits
were for tires that are obsolete.
Twenty-two of the tubes were
for passenger cars and 39 were for
trucks. Automobile owners re
ceived 50 recapped tires and
truck owners received 39.
The list of tire permits for new
passenger car tires and tubes is
as follows: Glen Jones, one tire
and one tube; C. H. Neely, two
tires; Clarence Benton, two tubes;
Lem Harper, two tubes; Henry
Latham, one tire; Turner Christ
ian, two tires; C. H. Park, one
tube; Dr. J. H. Fussell, two tires:
Nolia Durden, one tube; R. W
Warren, two tubes: Robert Cook, j
three tubes; Carl C. Johnson, two '
(Continued on Page Seven)
Mi Matthew Smith. Feb. 6. 1825.
Later on fully an average of one
half of the membership were from
the slave race until after 1865.
Brother James Hambrick was
elected "singing clerk” April 2,
1825.
The first subscription list for the
support of the gospel was passed
around in August 1825. upon the
election of Pastor Colley.
The first prayer meeting men
tioned was December 31. 1825.
The house of worship was finish
ed soon after July 1826. and for
sometime the body seemed ’o be
quite vigorous, according
quent acknowledgements to the
church and occasional expulsion
m the midst of accessions.
On Feb. 3, 1827, Rev. T. J. Hand
was elected to succeed Rew J j Oe
Celley. Were is a record showing
leave granted to Jerry, a colored
brother to preach in the church
ing second Sabbath.
Three days meetings w
in those days, once »y .
how the people did drmk m he
messages from the various
ers! There were frequent addition
to the church at the regu
received $6.00 ajar
tor ms on
mg became a fixed a PP ch Qn
Thursday night of wag
NOV - K o^ch and on May
licensed to preacn.
(Continued on Rage
Th* Conneton Bt» ri £ lt lg7<
Georgia EnUrpriao, E»t. 1564.
CHINA RELIEF
QUOTA REACHED
IN CITY DRIVE
Covington citizens responded
whole heartedly to the appeal for
funds for United China Relief and
as a result the campaign in the
City exceeded the quota, W. C.
MeGahee, County chairman said
yesterday. Indications are that
the County goal of SBOO. will be
reached before the drive is closed,
he added.
Mansfield and Porterdale will
start active campaigns this week
and the Oxford community closed
their drive yesterday. Every sec
tion of the City and the outlying
communities have given freely
and cheerfully and Chairman Me-
Gahee stated that the excellent
work by the volunteer workers
was responsible for the success of
the project.
Figures on the sums raised to
date have not yet been released,
pending a final count after the
campaign has been brought to a
close in every community.
The drive opened last Thurs
day with a send-off talk by Mrs.
Pope Branch of Macon. Mrs.
Branch spoke to a large crowd of
citizens at the Methodist Church.
She described her many years in
China, where ha- husband was
connected with the National Medi
cal School and told of events
leading up to the present World
War.
Funds derived from the cam
paign will be used to purchase
and ship food supplies, medicines
and other war materials to strick
en China.
Student Election
Set For Next Week
Students of the Covington High
School and the Palmer-Stone High
Schoo] will have an opportunity
to vote in the election next Wed
nesday and while the results of
their balloting will have no effect
on the outcome of the Democratic
Primary, the Covington Kiwanis
Club, sponsors of the project, feel
that it will prove a valuable les
son in citizenship practice.
Under the guidance of Kiwanis
Club members the students will
register at the County Court
House in the office of S. M. Hay,
tax collector. Meanwhile they
will be studying the issues in the
forthcoming election and next
polls at the respective schools and
cast their votes.
The actual vote-casting will be
held under the supervision of a
regular set of student election of
ficials, to be elected by the stu
dents.
Details of the citizenship ex
(Continued on Page Seven)
Thorne Is Speaker
Al Rotary Meeting
The regular meeting of the Cov
ington Rotary Club was held Tues
day noon at the Delaney Hotel
with President Charles S. Forester
l in charge.
Visitors attending the club were
‘introduced as follows; Gaither
Banks, of Milledgeville; Candler
Budd, of Warrenton: Professor
j Watkins of Emory-at-Oxford.
Kev. C. C. Hamilton officially in
' stalled James T. Cook, of Porter-
I dale, as a new member of the Ro
tary Club. Mr. Cook is Supervi
sor of two Porterdale Mills and
one of the leaders of that city. A
report was given by Treasurer,
Hoke Randall, and approved by
the club. He announced that trie
Board of Directors had instructed
bim to purchase a SIOO war bond
end called the attention of the duo
tc the District Governor's recog-
I (Continued on Page Seven)
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Not As Comfortable At A Bench, Though
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The upper left hand tanker in this picture of part of the crew of an M-4 taking a breath of fresh
air at Fort Knox, Ky., between test runs, is Supreme Court Justice Lt. Col. Frank Murphy. When the
tests were finished, the scoring showed that Col. Murphy has as fine an eye for targets as for habeas
corpus. »
THIRD YEAR OF SECOND WORLD WAR TO GO DOWN
AS BLACKEST PHASE FOR UNITED NATIONS CAUSE
Agricultural News
And Views Given
By County Agent
Cotton picking will be well under
way within a very few days in this
county and most of you are very
interested in the price of cotton.
You can have a large part in de
termining the price your cotton
will bring. The price you receive is
determined partly from the grade.
Strict low middling will bring you
three-fourths of a cent per pound
less than middling cotton or $3.75
per bale. Low middling cotton, and
we market several bales each year
of this grade, will bring about
$7.50 less per bale.
If you feel that the price of cot
ton will advance and you will hold
your cotton from the market the
other farmers do the same the de
mand will increase and may result
in a boost in the price of cotton.
If you need the money from your
cotton you may borrow from your
bank on the cotton at a low interest
rate or put it in the C. C. C. loan.
(Continued on Page Seven)
Fall For Volunteers
I point, with a great deal of pride, to the splendid work
being accomplished in our City and County for the American
Red Cross. Sewing and Knitting Circles, among the ladies, have
rendered signal service, and I would like to take this means of
expressing, as Mayor of Covington, my personal appreciation.
We have twenty-two First Aid Instructors in the County
and we trust they are training each person in their respective
Communities. However, I make a special request of all citizens
of Covington, both young and old, to get your pencil and pad.
Go among your friends and make a list of as many as twenty
five if possible, to sign up for a First Aid Course. Then call
the Chairman and ask for an Instructor to teach this class We
want every citizen of Covington to receive this training before
the first of January and you must begin NOW. We want you to
do the same in Home Nursing and Nutrition. We have a war to
win and it is going to take the man and woman power; of his
Nation to win it! Your Mayor is behind you in yarn- every effort
and as your Mayor I urge that each citizen of this city be
trained inFirst Aid immediately. The other courses are very
important, but First Aid must be listed at the top.
As a citizen of Newton County, I urge each rural community
to soma class and ask for an instructor You will get an in
structor free and you will never regret taking the course^ We
are due this much to our boys at the front who are making t
SUP 'lurV^ will be made at the Legion
Surgical . , arrive As soon as this class begins
< n the women of Newton County to put this phase of the work
OVel Aaam b i g express mv personal appreciation, as well as that
of the S. to'each worker, and urge that those who have not
enlisted do so at once.
Faithfully yours,
DR. S. L. WAITES, Mayor,
City of Covington.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1942.
Moscow, Leningrad, Solomons and Dieppe Are
Bright Spots; Allies To Soon Take Initiative
The 12 months ending September 1 seem likely to go
down as the “black year” for the United Nations in the
second World War.
Like 1917 —the third year of the first World War—
-1942 saw the conflict rising fiercely to a climax which was
likely to be reached in a few months.
This war year was only starting — ' —
its second quarter when the Jap
anese attacked Pearl Harbor at
Sunday dawn, December 7, and
brought about the biggest event
o' the year and perhaps of the
war —- the entry of the United
States into the conflict.
Disaster followed disaster in
sickening train. Guam, Wake
Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore,
Java, Rangoon, Bataan, Corregi
dor—some Os them Gibraltars of
the white man in the Far East —
fell in quick succession and the
Japanese had in their possession
all of the Philippines, Malaya,
Burma and the Netherlands East.
Indies.
Crippled by Pearl Harbor and
unprepared for a seven-ocean war,
the one-ocean United States Navy
fought a desperate battle in our
cwn Atlantic wate.-s with subma-
rines which took a toll of at least
440 ships in a few months.
In North Africa the British
Eighth Army, overwhelmed by
demands for men, planes and sup
plies for the Malaya, Burma, Aus
tralian and Indian fronts, stopped
German Marshal Edwin Rommel
only 65 miles short of Alexandria
and all but lost the vital bases
which hold the strategic land
bridges of the Middle East.
The great Russian Army, plain
ly weakened by stupendous losses
of planes, tanks and cannon, came
within an ace of losing Moscow,
and fell back 750 miles, from Kiev
to the Caucasus—one of the great
est retreats on record.
But the war log is not entirely
Lack.
The Red army did hold Moscow.
It held Leningrad. It drove the
Germans back, mile by mile, in
(Continued on Page Seven)
State Patrol Will
Visit Kiwanis Club
Today at the Delaney Hotel the
’ Covington Kiwanis Club luncheon
I meeting will feature a film exhib
। ited by the State Patrol, so stated
Al David, program chairman for
| September and October.
The State Patrol for some time
I has been exhibiting throughout
Georgia a film titled “Dividends
Paid by the State Patrol.” It is
not known definitely that this is
j the film to be shown here, though
Chairman AI David is expecting
that it shall be an educational
I film, yet withal an interesting one.
It is an indisputable fact that
the Georgia State Patrol has ren
dered and is rendering a gigantic
service to our people. Traffic fa
| talities in Georgia have decreased
remarkably since the beginning of
this authorized protection on the
I highways.
This patrol of the highways has
paid off in high dividends, and yet
the average citizen does not real
ize just what service is avai'able
to him through the Georgia State
I Patrol.
5c SINGLE COPY
INTEREST CENTERS IN RACE FOR
GOVERNOR'S POST; 3,146 NEWTON
COUNTY VOTERS ARE REGISTERED
LEGION POST TO
AGAIN SPONSOR
COUNTY FAIR
Newton County Post No. 32 will
again sponsor the annual County
Fair, it was announced this week
by Legion officials. This will be
the fourth year that, the Legion
Post has sponsored the annual
event and indications point to an
even better fair than in previous
years.
Opening on October 5, the fair
will continue throughout the week
with a full program of entertain
ment and educational exhibits.
Preparations for a large premium
catalog are now underway and the
book will be printed within the
next few weeks and mailed to all
parts of the County.
All monies raised by advertising
(Continued on Page Seven)
Redwine Predicts
Sweeping Majority
For Gov. Talmadge
“Governor Talmadge will be re
elected by a sweeping majority of
popular vote and county unit
vote,” said Charles D. Redwine,
campaign manager, following re
ports this week from every coun
ty in Georgia.
“Our supporters from all the
counties are reporting good news
to headquarters from all over
Georgia,” said Mr. Redwine.
“The substance of their reports
is excellent. And the fact that
they are so active in reporting,
and the widespread interest in
the campaign that they find among
the average Georgians, indicate
only success for Talmadge on
September 9th.
“There is a widespread knowl
edge among the people of the is
sues in this campaign. When the
people take the trouble to learn
the issues, they are interested and
when they are interested they will
vote.
“As the day for that vote nears,
(Continued on Page Seven)
SURVEY REVEALS $33,345 INCREASE
IN DID AGE PENSIONS IN COUNTY
Under Talmadge Administration 217 More Old
Age Pensioners Received Aid In 17 Months
The payments of pensions to the
old age people of Newton County
increased an average of $1,334.
per month a survey-of State rec
ords made this week reveals.
In January, 1941 pensions
totaled $1,970.50 per month in the
County, while in. July, 1942 they
totaled $3,304.50, a net increase of
$1,334. This represents a yearly
increase of $15,908 and a total in
crease for the 17 month period
from January, 1941 to July, 1942
of $33,345,
The number* of aged and infirm
Newton County citizens receiving
aid from the State also showed a
sharp increase. In January 1941
only 232 persons were on the old
age rolls while the survey reveaLs
that in July, 1942, 449 were re
ceiving aid. This represents an in
crease of 217 under Governor Tal
madge’s supervision as compared
with the 232 placed on the rolls
during the four years of the Rivers
administration.
A survey for the entire state re
veals similiar increases. For the
year ending June 30, 1940 the old
age pusople, the blind and depend
ent children received $3,455,874.50.
For the year ending June 30, 1942
they received $7,473,435.00, an in-
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
R. Pat Campbell And
Congressman Camp
Without Opposition; 2
Seek Governorship.
Newton County citizens, along
with thousands of other Geor
gians, will go to the polls next
Wednesday end vote for the
State’s first four-year Governor,
U. S. Congressmen and Senators
as well as State House officers.
Registration figures show that
3,146 voters from Newton County
are qualified to vote, this being
an increase of 396 voters over the
figures for the 1940 election.
Principal interest centers on the
race for the governorship and the
last few days before the Demo
cratic primary finds both candi
dates in a last minute drive to
secure as many votes as possible.
The two candidates, Governor Eu
gene Talmadge, the incumbent
and Ellis Arnall will close theii
campaigns in a whirlwind of
speeches.
Local citizens will only vote on
two races of local interest. A.
Sidney Camp is seeking reelection
as Congressman for the Fourth
District and R. Pat Campbell is
seeking the Representative’s post
in the General Assembly. Both
are without opposition.
The state-wide race for the
junior Senator’s post finds two
candidates in the field. The in
cumbent, Richard B. RusseUj Jr.,
I is being opposed uy Will D. Up
' shaw, former congressman and
one-time presidential candidate.
The post of comptroMer-General
(Continued on Page Seven)
Stores Will Close
Here On Labor Day
Covington business establish
ments will close next Monday in
order that their employees may
have an opportunity to observe
Labor Day it was announced
yesterday.
A petition circulated among the
merchants of the City the first
part of the week was signed by
more than forty firms.
Labor Day this year has taken
on new significance in view of
present world unrest. No special
celebrations are planned here
other than the holiday for store
employees.
crease of $4,017,560.50 under the
Talmadge administration.
Payments to aged pensioners
under the previous regime totaled
$2,415,334. for the year ending
June 30, 1940. tnder Governor
Talmadge’s administration they
received a total of $6,002,756. dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1942,
an increase of $3,587,422.
These increased payments were
made in spite of the fact that the
number of pensioners were in
creased 26,338, from 41,238 on the
rolls in January, 1941 to 67,576
receiving aid in July, 1942.
Under Governor Talmadge, the
average monthly payments in
creased $270,814. each month, the
monthly payments in January,
1941 being only $461,395.50 as
compared with the $732,209.50 be
ing paid out each month by the
Talmadge administration.
The survey also reveals that in
January, 1941, 36,078 applications
were pending, left-overs from the
Rivers administration. Through
June, 1942, 36,259 additional ap
plications have been turned in,
giving a grand total of 72,337.
From January, 1941 to June 30,
1942 Governor Talmaage attended
to 58,199 of these applications
leaving at the present time only
14,138 pending.
NUMBER 36