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R,. , morning, the rain is
K/pounng ... the yard
a lake . . . there
R lv is not a cloud left in
R, en . and we know why!
Ri y this is a sacred thing
■'but we know there is not
Houcl m the Heavens with
■ joe Guinn there. This Os-
R B p- hows his head in re-
R t t 0 one of the sweetest
iKstians it ha* ever been , our
Klege to know. We feel we
R be a better boy for having
Rwn Mr. Guinn. We have
R to prayer services a few
Re when there was only the
Rr Mr. joe Quinn and the
R C e’ Bov present ... but we
■ays had prayer ... and
Rmattei who else stayed at
R c . Mr. Guinn was there
Kis place ... and never
R e we heard prayers from a
R r consecrated soul . . . the
Rds from those lips came from
R fl spent in God’s service. He
R s pent niany hours in our
Re .. . m an y sacred hours
Kn he talked of the past . . .
3hat saintly Mother ... the
Rutiful things he told of her
R too sacred to carry for he
Rid have it this way ... but
R sweetest thing I ever saw
R Guinn say or do was when
Rheid out two strong perfect
R beautiful hands, with their
Rns up and open ... "I prom-
R Mother of mine I'd never
■ these hands, and I have kept
R promise.” Yes we know
^■has taken his place in that
Rutiful land of tomorrow . . .
R going away was exactly as
would have it ... it came
■ shock to those who loved
R so Only Sunday morning
his hand, and it was as
as ice . . . always was, and
R - shamefully “sassy” to him
Rav, because he loved it . . .
R I said, those hands are
|R:" Then that sweet smile
J argument followed ... I
^Bised him of being in love
R he alwavs insisted it was
R a WARM HEART ... He
Rayed the Office Boys cook-
R ... but we regretted that
Rwoulii not come often ... he
Ravs felt that others had .their
Ris and he was never going
Rhe any trouble to anybody
R . He lived his life as he
v have it . . . going to
|Bday Schtoi and Church Sun-
R morning, then returning to
■ home. He was not at
R ch Sunday Night and its the
■t time he's ever missed that '
R know of ... he did not
^Bear at his place of business
■ next morning . . . and lov
■ friends who took fresh veg-
Bbles from their garden to
at his door the next morn
found his bottle of milk still '
the outside . . . worried,
By "ent to his place of busi-
Bs which was yet not open
I • then they notified offic
■ who went with them and
Rd him ASLEEP ... in his
■ m • . just as he had often
Bressed himself, as wishing '
■go.
Bo person at the Baptist ,
Birch could be missed more
will be our Dear Mr.
■ nn - He was an accomplish
■ musician, and in his younger
■ s Played the violin, and was
y c or °f the choir, in which •
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ce o L H ^ lh ' past commander; Henry Alien Post nisr° r ' he r past guard; Walter Reynolds,
nrte^? 0 ?^ Andrews junior Ot the day; E. L. Ficquett, past senior vice com-
an< c - T^ adjUtant: Tom Johns ° n ’ ^^u^^^^Hons officer Bill Giles, officer of the day: Ber
ard str? nrd FOW: J ' Hope Branha 7> pu ^ llc maior and quartermaster-sergeant. (NEWS
hrLr a vr - guard, and Austin McMichael, sergeant-major ana quaiv
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EIAIE MANN CONFESSES BRUTAL MURDER OF PATRICK GIRI
FCC Permit Granted For Radio Station Here
Dennis Gives
Details Os
NEWS Station
Community Service
Principal Aim
Os New Station,
Publisher Says.
One of Covington’s foremost
civic dreams will become a reali
ty in the very near future, it was
revealed this week with the an
nouncement that a radio station,
operated by the Covington News,
will begin functioning as near
July 1 as possible.
Approved by the Federal Com
munications Commission on April
4, the new station will operate
on 1490 Kilocycles with a power
of 250 watts. Time of operation
will be unlimited, A. Belmont
Dennis, publisher of the NEWS,
said.
Location of the studio in Cov
ington has not been announced,
but plans have been made for a
remote control studio to be lo
cated in Conyers.
Civic groups had for some
time been asking for a radio sta-
(Coniinued on Page Fourteen)
Companies A- B
Meet Today At 4:15
Companies A and B of Emory
at Oxford will go to bat this
afternoon at 415 in the third
game of the current baseball sea
son. The game this afternoon is
the first between the two out
fits.
In the opening contest last
Thursday, Company C eked out
a 7 to 6 victory. Much of the cre
dit for last Thursday’s win should
be given to Jimmy Buxton, who
pitched a no-hit game. A home
run by Bob Hollingsworth featur
ed Company C's offensive play.
For a curtain raiser the game
last Thursday was not so bad.
Nervous and excited, as u~ual in
a srst game, the players on both
teams made many errors. Aider
man, tosser for Company A, look
ed good in the pit. He received
excellent support from Charlie
Adams behind the bat.
Games will be played each
Tuesday and Thursday through
May 10, according to Athletic
Director E. J. Brown. Time: 4:15
p. m. Covington fans are invited
and urged to participate.
Th« CoTlntton Star, Cal. 1474.
Georgia Enttrprlta. Ell. ISM.
Confessed Slayer Re-Enacts Crime For Officers
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Eddie Mann self-confessed slayer of Ruth Patrick, 12-year- Vera Hooten, deputy sheriff, stands on the spot indicated by Mann
old Porterdale girl, gave officers details of the slaying in a dra- as being where the girl stood. In the photo on the right the alleged
matic re-enactment of the murder Tuesday afternoon at the scene killer stands in a pool of water where the girl’s body was found
of the crime In' the photo on the left, Mann stands where he says and where Mann says he stood as he secreted the body the night
he stood the night of March 8 when he choked the girl to death. of the slaying. (NEWS Photo-Engraving),
; A Capella Choir
In Concert Sunday
At Oxford Church
The Milledgeville College A
Cappella Choir, directed by Miss
Alberta Goff, of Thomasville,
will give a program Sunday night
at 7:30 o’clock in Allen Memorial
Church of Oxford.
The choir, composed of GSCW
and GMC students, is widely
known in Georgia music circles.
Several concerts have already
been given this season, all of
them highly praised by critics.
Sunny Hancock, of Decatur,
and Athleen Hill, of Cordele, are
soloists with the group, and
Joanna Rainey, of Elberton is
reader. The accompanists are
Elizabeth Mallard, of Thomas
ville; Nona Quinn, of Washing- i
ton: Mary Ella Everett, of Ten- |
nille, and Francis Yarbrough, of i
Edison. Clarence Greene is stage ;
manager. Nell Robinson, of
Oglethorpe, is secretary and lib- j
rarian. Betty Cleveland, of El-1
berton, is chairman of the execu
| tive committee.
The following are among the |
numbers to be sung Sunday j
night: Processional —Joyful, Joy- :
ful, We Adore Thee (Beethoven): |
Heavenly Light (Kopylow-Wil- .
housky); Only Begotten Son I
(Gretchaninoff-Norden); As Mary I
Walked Through Thorny Woods; i
Christ Went Up Into the Hills I
(Hageman); Come, Soothing
Death (Bach;) We Adore Thee
(Palestrina); O Gentle Death
(Palestrina); Salvation Is Creat
ed (Tschesnokoff), and the Bene
diction (Lutkin).
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946
9 Newton 4-H ers Entering
Cattle In 11th Annual Show
Nine Newton County Four-H
members will enter cattle in the
Eleventh Annual Atlanta Fat
Cattle Show sponsored by
the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, it was announced this
week by J- W. Scoggins, county
agent.
James and Joe Anderson, 15-
year- old-twins of Starrsville, will
• enter five head: Gene Marks, 16
of Mansfield, six head; Corne
lius Harper, 12, and Foy Harper,
16, of Oxford, will enter two
each; Pleas Hays, 11, and Dixon
Hays, 17, of Mansfield will en
ter three head each; Gene Moore,
Covington, will submit one en
try. Foy M. Ellington, of Oxford,
will have several entries in the
i adult class.
The show, which will take
place on April 16, will feature
j entries from FFA and Four-H
members from all over north
I Georgia.
Livestock men in this area
who have inspected the animals
Scout Committee
Planning Leaders'
Training Course
A Boy sScout Training Com
| mittee, designed to further the
i interest in scouting activites in
i Newton County, has been ap_
। pointed with Jim Cook, of Por-
I terdale, as chairman.
The committee, organized un.
der the director of Weaver Marr,
Atlanta Area Scout executive, is
composed of the following busi
ness men and scout leaders:
Frank Meadors, Sam Tribble,
Joe Davis, Render Holder. John
Andrews, and Howard Brum,
baugh.
Beginning on May 25th, week
ly meetings will be held - for four
consecutive Thursdays at the
American Legion Hall in Coving,
ton Time of the meetings will be
6 o'clock.
A separate course will be con
ducted for clyb leaders, the first
and continuing thereafter for the
next three Thursdays at the
Legion Hall.
The District Committee wel.
comes parents and others who
will take an active interest in
scouting to attend the course.
The Committee members have
attended a series of meetings in
the Atlanta Area and are well
qualified to give more Spirit and
life to Newton County Scouting.
Boy Seoul Committee
Meeting Monday Night
The district committee of the
Newton Boy Scout District will
meet next Monday night at 6:30
o'clock at the Delaney Hotel, it
was announced this week.
All members of the committee
jnd other adults interested in
the scouting movement have
been invited to attend.
I being readied for competition
: predict that an even higher |
t quality of fat beef will be offer
' ed buyers at the sale, Wednes- i
- day, April J 7th, than was shown
s at last yea’ s oustanding event.
r Both the si >w and sale will be
held at the National Stockyards
- in Atlanta.
1 The sue breed contests,
> held last yea for the fn-st time,
- will again be a feature of the
, 1946 show. The Georgia Aber
-1 deen-Aagus Breeders Association
and the American Aberdeen-
Angus Breeders Association will
contribute $300.00 for prizes to
all junior exhibitors whose en
tries qualify for an Angus breed
contest- The Georgia Hereford
Association, Inc. will distribute
a similar amount in prizes to
i junior exhibitors whose entries
। qualify for a Hereford breed con
test.
; At the conclusion of the show
on Tuesday afternoon a livestock
i grading contest will be held for
all interested club members,
with prizes of $lO, $7.50, $5, $2.50
awarded to the top four contes
tants. As in the past a purebred
gilt or its equivalent in chicks
will be given to the junior ex
hibitor whose entry is adjudged
the best fitted animal.
The entry list for the show and
sale will close April 10.
The Annual Cattle Show Din
ner honoring FFA and 4-H Club
exhibitors and their leaders will
be held Tuesday with Atlanta
Chambers as hosts. A special
program of entertainment, will
follow the dinner program.
The show and sale was organi
zed by the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce in 1936 for the pur
pose of encouraging Georgia’s
farm youth to raise their live
stock production to its proper
level in a balanced agricultural
program.
Youthful contestants at the
1945 Show received as incentive
toward this goal $1,700 in prizes
and more than S2O 000 from the |
sale of their animals, an auction ;
average of 30-44 cents per pound.
! Last year’s Grand Champion
1 owned by Ann Gregory of Mur
ray County brought an all-time
I Atlanta record price of sl.ll per
pound.
Goal Increased In
Hospital Drive
A goal of nearly SSOO has been
1 set as the Stone Mountain As
sociation’s contribution for the
annual Georgia Baptist Hospital
Day on May 5, it was announc
ed this week by Walker Combs,
pastor of the Covington First
Baptist Church, hospital day
chairman of the association.
The state goal is $50,000, which
is a 25 per cent increase over last
year. The funds are used for the
important charity service of the
hospital. The money will be rais-
'cd through Sunday School con- ,
I tributions. i
5 c SINGLE COPY
Library Loaned
290 Books In April,
Mrs. Hawkins Says
’ Newton county’s reading ration
for the Month of March was 290
books, it was announced this
week by Mrs. C. E. Hawkins, one
of the county’s Library Associa
tion librarians.
This figure will probably go
much higher in April as em
’ phasis on reading wgs drawn to
' the public’s attehtion this week
through a window of the Newton
County Building and Loan As
sociation pointing up reading con
cerning building and homes pro
blems. The window was decorat
ed by Mrs. Tandy Bush and Mrs.
W. K. Swann for the L'brary As
sociation. The use of the window
has been granted for a year by
the Building and Loan Associa
tion.
The county library now has on
hand 735 book of its own and has
on a quarterly loan basis from
the state 500 more, giving a wide
selection to readers of this com
munity.
“The state has granted 8650.
this year to help support the lib
rary.” Mrs. Hawkins said. “In
two years the library has brought
into the county more than SI,OOO
that we would not have had
without it.”
In addition to the books check
ed out for reading, there were
five reference questions asked, a
library service not generally
known to the public, and seven
magazines were taken for over
night reading. The county now
has 362 registered borrowers, the
librarian added.
CANCER DRIVE CONTRIBUTION BELOW
LAST YEAR'S, MRS. NESBIT REVEALS
Increased Tempo Os Donations Is Needed To
Meet Increased Quota For Newton County
Newton Count has so far turn
। cd a deaf ear to the pleas of the
American Cancer Society in its
drive to raise funds to combat
j the most dreaded of all disease,
Mrs. F. C. Nesbit, commander of
the Newton County Field Army,
said Wednesday.
“Contributions are falling be
hind those of last year,” Mrs.
! Nesbit said. “Our quota is larger
and we must meet the ever
growing need of cancer research
and treatment ”
The American Cancer Society
this week released figures to
show that cancer killed more
than twice as many Americans
during the war years as did the
Germans and Japs combined. ,
Cancer threatens to destroy
at least one in every eight per
sons unless it can be controlled,
literature from the society said.
Fortunately, much can be done
to avert this apalling picture, but
funds must be raised to carry on
the work of the society.
Medical costs of cancer deaths
jin the United States are conser-
Alledged Killer Re-Enacts
Murder At Scene Os Crime
Relief Only Emotion Shown As 104-Pound
Mill Worker Confesses Strangling Girl
Climax to a sordid mystery that had baffled law
enforcement officers of this section for a month came
Tuesday when four foot, 11 inch, 104-pound Eddie
Mann, 40, confessed the murder by strangulation of Ruth
Patrick, 12-year-old Porterdale i
girl, whose body was found Sun-1
day March 31, in a creek five i
miles north of Covington.
With no signs of emotion
other than obvious relief to get
the affair off his mind, Mann
went into detail in his confes
sion to Sheriff W. G. Benton of
Newton County and James Addy
of the GBI. He told how the
girl had repeatedly come to his
house and how he had repeat
m^Tt. In m O
edly taken her home.
However, just at sundown on i
Friday, March 8, the girl came
to his home, located only three
quarters of a mile from the
scene of the crime, and told |
Mann that she was going to stay
with him. He told the officers
that he insisted that she leave, |
She then insisted that she was]
gbing to stay, Mann related.
1 Mann then asked the girl, he
1 said, to go to walk with him.
’ They left the yard and walked
: through the fields to a large
rock, once a picnic spot, near
where her body was later found.
0 Mann told the officers that
' he told Ruth that he was going
° to kill her. When she asked
why, he told her that he didn’t
1 know of any other way to get
" rid of her.
Mann said that he then took
" the girl by the throat and, hold
’ ing her upright, choked her un
til she was dead. She made
no struggle, the confessed murd
erer said. After she was dead,
he half-carried, half-drug her
body to the nearby stream and
weighted it down with rocks in
a small pool below a waterfalL
He placed the body face down
and then went to get rocks to
hold it in place.
The sheriff earlier in the week
! estimated that one of the rocks
weighed 75 pounds and the
other 175 pounds. Mann said
that he rolled the heavier rock
to the pool and tipped it over
on the body.
After he had placed the rocks
on the body, he returned home,
Mann told the officers. By his
own admission, the whole deed
took about an hour.
The young. Patrick girl had
been missing since March 8, the
day that Mann said he commit
ted the crime. She was last
(Continued on Page Fourteen) J
vatively estimated at $220,000,-
000 a year. The economic cost to
the immediate families of cancer
victims is estimated at the huge
sum of $900,000,000 a year. The
society points out that it is good
business to invest money in re
search to lower these high costs.
Those wishing to make con
tributions should get in touch
with Mrs. Nesbit.
I
Ollie Bradshaw Post
Installs New Officers
The Ollie Bradshaw Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars install
ed new officers for the coming
►year at its regular meeting last
Monday night at Porterdale.
Highlights of the occasion were
a fish fry. Ray Moore, veteran of
World War 11, was installed as
new commander of the post.
The next regular meeting of
the VFW will be at the court
house April 22. A musical pro
gram in charge of Pete Vining ■
will be featured. I
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
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Meeting Is (ailed To
Discuss Bible School
1 Plans for a Vacation BibU
School for the children of all
denominations in Covington
will be made Friday at 7:30
p. m. at the Methodist Church.
As in previous years, this is
a joint project of the three
Covington churches. A large
attendance is urged at ihif
meeting.
Funeral Today Al
Baptist Church
For J. I. Guinn
Last rites will be conducted
this afternoon for J. I. Guinn, 79-
. ' year-old Covington resident, bet
t ter known to a host of friends
’ as “Mr. Joe Guinn.”
i The services will be conducted
t at 3:30 P. M. by the Rev. Walker
I Combs. Interment will be in the
city cemetery. Mr. Guinn died
: suddenly this past Sunday.
He was a member of the First
Baptist Church and took an
active part in Church affairs. Mr.
Guinn spent his entire life in
Covington and until the time of
his death was engaged in the
mercantile business. At one time
he operated a large store on the
Square. In more recent years, he
oprated a business on Clark
Street.
Deacons of the First Baptist
Church will serve as pallbearers.
He is survived by two half
brothers, Minor Guinn, a resident
of Tennessee, and Duvall Guinn,
a resident, of California, and
many friends throughout the
county who were grieved at his
passing.
The NEWS extends sympathy
to his survivors J. C. Harwell &
Son, funeral directors, were in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Revival Services
For P'dale Churches
1 To Start Sunday
A union revival service of all
the churches in Porterdale is
, scheduled to get underway next
Sunday and continue for two
I weeks.
The Rev. John D. Henderson,
Presbyterian evangelist from
Spartanburg. S. C., who conduct
ed a meeting last year at the
Presbyterian Church, will be the
speaker. Music for the meeting
will be conducted by V. Y. C.
Eady, dean of the Emory Junior
College at Oxford.
Plans for the meeting were laid
Wednesday night. Featured
speaker for the occasion was Mrs.
Arthur J. Moore, wife of Bishop
Moore, of the Methodist Church.
The revival meeting will be
held at the Baptist church, wit*’
all congregations participating.
Golden Fleece Lodge
Meets Tonight At 7:30
There will be a called com
munication of the Golden Fleece
Lodge No. 6, F. and A. M., at
: the Masonic Temple, tonight, at
7:30 p. m., for the purpose of
conferring the Fellowcraft De
gree on three candidates.
Brother P. Y. Luther, of Grif
fin, will deliver the staircase
lecture. All members and visit
ing brethren are cordially ia-
I vited to attend.
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