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Covington's Progress In Past Year
Is Reflected In Report For Contest
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which brought out capacity
crowds of white and colored
spectators. Softball games,
maintained by donations, also
furnished recreation for players
and community fans.
The Kitanis Club gave SBSO
to pay a coach's salary and buy
equipment for a summer recrea
tion program, which included
swimming and life-saving class
es at nearby pools.
On March 30. the Newton
County Athletic Association had
their first meeting. There were
55 people present. A member
ship drive was immediately;
started, and in a short time we
had 300 members. This gave us
about $2,500 to finance our ath
letic program. Until this year
basketball was the only spotty
in the high school because otner
types of sports were too ex
pensive. The Board of Educa
tion selected a football coach
and spring training began at
once. We are urging our school
officials to add more athletic
choices to the school program.
We are hoping, by the help of
the Athletic Association, to
build a strong and healthy stu
■ dent, as well as give him a good
education. As soon as possible,
we hope to have not only foot
ball and basketball, but base
ball, track and tennis in the
high school.
March and April wound up a
very successful series of con
certs. sponsored jointly by the
Covington Music Club, other
Civic Clubs and Emory at Ox
ford at a season's expense of
$2,300.
A new SB,OOO modern bus
station greatly adds to tourist
comfort, as do our newly paint
ed railroad stations. Both the
Central of Georgia Railroad and
the Georgia Railroad were glad
to cooperate at our request in
painting their depots and clean
ing up the premises because of
the large amount of shipping
Covington does over their lines,
for example, during our contest
; period our two lumber mil's
| shipped 184 carloads of lumber
and 592 carloads of pulpwood
went out. Also, Covington Mills
I sent out 690 tons of textiles via
these railroads, who are spend
ing $3,000 on painting improve
ments..
The automobile business and
j gas stations have added new ser
vice equipment, ready to handle
day and night service for tour-
I ists.
A new $73,000 Cleaning Plant
gives day service cleaning for
guests stopping overnight.
HOMES
Covington's growth is empha
sized by the fact that in these
. past eight months we have had
I under construction forty-eight
new homes at ■ total cost of
$283,585.
Furthermore, in connection
j with the Garden Club's tour of
1 homes this spring, the town,
! under proclamation by the
. mayor and under sponsorship of
oivic clubs, had an intensive
| campaign to beautify our homes
। outside and inside. This has
been earned on into the fall,
with gardening activity being
stressed. Homes have been re
decorated, remodeled or addi
tions made at a total cost of
$157,916.
CHURCHES
One must see Covington’s
churches to visualize their beau
ty, particularly after this sea
son’s painting, carpeting and re
modeling. The Methodist Church
has also just added candlelabra
and chimes, costing S7OO. It is
THE COVINGTON NEW,
no wonder that, as of this monti
i we have a combined church meir
, bership of 1,234 and a Sunda
I School membership of 790.
The Baptist, Presbyterian ar
Methodist churches combin'
their teaching staffs for a join-
Bible School. This past June
we had 175 pupils attending the
sessions. The churches this past
summer also began having one
Union Song Service a mon‘n,
rotating the churches for the
meetings. Each one has a re
vival, which the members of
other churches have attended in
large numbers. As a passing
comment, Covington largely oar
ticipates in the Salem Camp
Meeting, for tjoth the Rotary and
Kiwanis Club “sponsor” a night.
Many Covington families move
to their camp cottages for the
entire time or live at the hotel.
There is always a large atten
dance from Covington.
WATER SYSTEM. HEALTH
AND SANITATION
Realizing the urgency for ex
tending our water system and
sanitation, the city is now build
ing a water works system w?h
a filtering plant of the most
modern type, financed thru rev
enue stamps and obligation
bonds. As a result, most of
North Covington now has facil
ities for inside bathrooms; and
of greatest importance to the
health of the whole community,
many houses in the colored
section have already installed
inside bathrooms and have de
stroyed the germ-breeding out
side toilets. Many more are
waiting impatiently to install
bathrooms and kitchens as soon
as the system is completed. This
project will increase our waler
; pressure, which will aid im
measurably in fire-fighting con
trol. See back sheet for further
city improvements.
A modern public health pro
gram should extend health serv
ices to each person in a com
munity. Such a program will in
sure for every one safe water
and milk supplies, pure food, the
prevention of epidemics and
safe, healthful working condi
tions. With this goal in mind,
we have developed our own pro
gram in the following way:
For the first time, all cnil
dren ent^jing school are re
quired to have smallpox vac
cination, typhoid vaccine, whoop
ing cough and diphtheria vac
cine. A summer immunization
clinic was held for school and
pre-school children—B4o immun
ization.
Educational films have been
shown in the colored school on
various subjects such as dental
hygiene, tuberculosis, venereal
diseases and nutrition. We leel
that these films are having far
reaching results.
A dental hygiene program in
the city school asks for a dental
card from each student.
In August the Covingmn
Dairies was inspected and found
to be in excellent condition,
with grade A rating.
A clinic for maternal and
child health is held twice each
month. A nursing conference is
held each week with food dem
onstration, model display of
layette, maternity dresses, room
furnishings, etc. Literature is
given out, and mothers helped
with formula if needed. The
average attendance is from 25
to 30 at each meeting.
Blood testing is available to
each person in the city who
wishes. Free treatment at Rap
id Treatment Center is avail
able if infected. Transporation
to and from clinic is furnished,
and all housewives are encour
aged to have maids and cooks
tested.
For tuberculosis control, X
ray clinics are held every three
months, with an average of 100
persons X-rayed at each clime.
Instructions as to isolation, diet,
etc. are given in homes of all
cases of tuberculosis. Applica
tions for admission to Battey
State Hospital are made on ev
ery known case. Tuberculosis
tests are made on high school
students also.
| Under capable leadership the
| cancer drive, tuberculosis seal
sale drive and the polio drive
have all exceeded our goal.
Under the Crippled Children's
Program, each crippled child ; n
the city may be treated or hos
pitalized if necessary. Braces
; are checked, and instructions
are given to mothers on care of
braces. Help is also given on
diet and other problems.
Twice since March the blood
mobile unit has visited Coving
ton with marked success each
time.
One of the large textile man
ufacturing companies has sup
plied cold and influenza vaccine
for all employees, many of
which live in Covington. The
officials of this plant feel that
this measure has cut down ab
senteeism forty to fifty percent.
During the past summer the
city passed an ordinance, requir
ing rabies vaccination for ail
dogs within city limits and in
October we start a typhus con
trol program.
Huson Memorial Hospital has
spent $1,200 for painting inside
and out. and has installed a
new $2,000 heating system.
EDUCATION
The new $55,000 trade school
>r the Veterans Education Pro
ram is rated A-l by the Vet
rans Administration and State
'eterans Education Council. It
is one of the best training
schools in the State, with its
completely equipped tool rooms,
fully equipped machine shops
and classrooms with the best in
training devices. Classes are
held in two shifts, and give
courses in automotive mechanics,
wood-working, plumbing, and
carpentry; also brick masonry
and plastering, which are open
to negro students only.
The school has eight full-time
instructors for the white stu
dents and two colored instruc
tors, and is open from 7;00 a. m.
to 7:00 p. m. five days a week.
There are 200 white enrollees
and 70 colored, who come from
several counties. This school
brings in to Covington and the
county $38,350 per month.
We are proud of the new $15,-
000 gymnasium being added to
the colored school. Two new
classrooms and office for the
principal have been added also.
The Covington white school
has added three classrooms,
made improvements to building,
and added to its commercial and
laboratory equipment. There
have been improvements to the
school lunchroom, where meats
are served at 20c a plate. More
than 250 new volumes have been
added to the school library. The
total cost of improvements
amounted to about $7,500.
Supplementing the school li
brary, the Woman’s Club adds
at least four new volumes a
month, and serves daily as a
reference room for students, and
with the Newton County Li
brary in the Court House,
serves the entire county.
These clubs in the school make
effective contributions as fol
lows;
The Future Teachers of Amer
ica was organized in April of
the 1947-48 year for boys and
girls who are interested n
teaching as a career.
The Tri-Hi-Y Club for girls,
which is under the supervision
of the State Y. M. C. A., has or
ganized a new Tri-Hi-Y Club m
the Washington Street Hign
School for colored children, and
cooperates with churches in a
Go-To-Church campaign.
This year the Beta Club, a
national scholarship organiza
tion, has printed announcements
concerning a profitable radio
program on education, and is
working now on chapel pro
grams and bulletins concerning
students reading comic books.
The Key Club painted the
boys’ and girls' rest rooms this
summer at a cost of S2OO.
Covington s biggest education
al project is its new school, for
which we now have in the bank
$400,000, in addition to 10 acres
of land already purchased for
SIO,OOO, on which is a ten-roorn
house, to be remodeled and con
verted into a teacher's home.
Plans for this building have
been returned to the architect
for revision to meet fund speci
fications. This amount of $410,-
0000 has not been included in
the buildings listed for the con
test, because it is not yet actual
ly under construction.
The Junior Woman's Club has
been given room in the new
■Teen-Can building for their
kindergarten, which they main
tain with proceeds from a
Christmas dance, for which
plans are now being formulated,
gifts and a nominal tuition.
Since March they have pur
chased $289 worth of new equip
ment.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
| Business and industry have
given the astounding total of
$245,650 in new buildings begun
or completed since March 1 of
this year, with $212,780 in ad
ditions, improvements and serv
ice equipment.
The businesses include a new
laundry and cleaning establish
ment, a new bus station, a new
i twelve-unit apartment house, a
new mattress factory, a ware
house for the shirt factory, a
body shop, a combination busi
ness site with overhead apart
ments, a new building replac
ing a heavy fire loss in local
lumber company, a new R.E.A.
warehouse, and many fine adai-!
tions, such as that being con
structed for an Appliance Com
pany at $11,500.
Not included in the above;
figures is the new R. E. A.
building, costing $83,000, which
plans have already been sub
mitted to Washington, but ac
tual building will not get under
way for a few weeks.
The Bell Telephone Company |
has greatly increased their serv
ices with $25,000 worth of new;
equipment.
AGRICULTURE
Covington, as the county seat,
is the trade center for Newton
County and, as such, caters to
the farmer. It has the best
local cotton markets in the
South, in large part supplied by
thirty-three Covington men who
own and operate farms in the
OJUnty. Already this fall, the
pest Coverage Any Weekly Tn The State) Thursday, January K
Ho Special Taos
For Gov.'s Staff
The recent announcement by
'hief-of-Staff Alex McLennan,
Atlanta attorney, that no spe
cial automobile tags will be is
sued to members of Gov. Her
man Talmadge’s staff is viewed
by the Atlanta Constitution as
a popular decision, in an editoral
local gin has baled 1100 bales at
$165.00 a bale.
Local businessmen auctioned
off the first bale of cotton tnis
year, which brought one dollar
a pound.
The Kiwanians spent $972 for
chickens and pigs to give the
4-H Club boys a start in raising
their own. The Club also do
nated $250 to the Newton Coun
ty Farm Improvement.
The Woman's Club made some
improvements in the rest rooms,
which it maintains for the con
venience of farm women.
Many housewives buy regular
ly from farmers bringing pro
duce to town.
The Kiwanis Club organized
a Boy Scout troop in the county
and gave S6OO for she Scouts.
The Covington High School
as this fall added the depart
ment of vocational agriculture
to its curriculum.
NEGRO REPORT
Since Covington is a unit, we
have no racial difficulties at all;
and because we are proud of
our colored citizens we offer a
chapter on the progress of our
colored districts.
Since March of this year, they
have built 16 new homes at a
total cost of $38,000. They have
had a splendid clean-up cam
paign and have painted and re
modeled at a cost of SII,OOO. '
They have installed many ’-ew
bathrooms, new kitchens and
electrical appliances. Many
more are just waiting tor the
completion of the city's new
water system in order to put in
their new’ bathrooms. Already,
the fly menace has lessened
throughout the town, for many
of the breeding places in the
outside toilets have been re
moved. The whole town will
indeed rejoice with them when
pipes will lead to every home.
Twenty-two houses have new
telephones—others have orders.
The colored school building,
already the best in town, has
been enlarged and the new gym
is being built, much labor be
ing supplied by neighbors. Their
school library contains 1279 vol
umes.
The two excellent colored
baseball teams played Atlanta
and otner teams on the new
Cpvington Athletic Field, and
the grandstands houses two full
sections, white and colored.
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Phone 2115 Covington
headed “Democracy’—This is
more like it,” the newspaper
said:
“The average citizen has been
irritated for years by these
smug little tags bearing tne
words ‘GOVERNORS STAFF.'
which have been seen on Geor
gie highways. Whatever the:r
actual purpose, the implication
has been that here was, in
Army parlance. VlP—Very Im
portant Personage—who was
not bothered u'ith trivial mat
ters as observing speed limits
and No Parking signs.
“That’s why we rejoice at the
announcement by Alex McLen
nan, Gov. Talmadge's Chief-ot-
Staff. that no such special tags
will be issued by the present
administration. It may be only
an illusion, but at least it will
lead us to think that afi men
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