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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
W. THOMAS HAY
Advertising Manager
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
Oy of Covington
Is The Handout Era Ending?
In mid-December an Associated Press
dispatch from Washington said, “The new
Congress . . . appeared primed to join with
great gusto in President-elect Eisenhower's
promised drive to slash Federal spending.
“Republicans and Democrate alike . . .
voiced overwhelming sentiment for bud
get cuts ranging from $5,000,000,000 to more
than $20,000,000,000."
This is some of the best news that has
come from the national capital in a very
long time. It unquestionably reflects pub
lie opinion in this country today. All ob
servers are certain that the President-elect
The Acid Test
The principal argument used in advo
cating socialized medicine is that the cost
of adequate medical care is beyond the
means of most people.
That argument, when assayed in the
light of certain facts, won't stand the acid
test.
In 1951, for example, we spent about
$13,600,000,000 for medical services. In the
same year we spent $13,200,000,000 for al
coholic beverages, tobacco and smoking
supplies. In other words, the medical care
bill was practically the same as the bill
for commodities which can’t be described
as necessities by any stretch of the imagi
nation.
Tens of millions of workers and their
families subscribe to voluntary prepay
ment health insurance plans. No one
claims that these plans are perfect or all
inclusive. But they do a splendid job in
New Olds On
Display Here
January 9th
Oldsmobile’s 1953 models with
exciting new styling inside and
out and many mechanical im
provements will go on display for
the first time Friday, January 9.
at Ginn Motor Co., it was an
nounced by S. A. Ginn, president.
The new Oldsmobiles will offer
the ultimate in automotive lux
ury, according to S. A. Ginn,
with their graceful body lines and
a wide choice of handsome in
terior appointments.
A more powerful ‘'Rocket"
engine with a higher compression
ratio will provide power for
1953 Oldsmobiles. A new higher
voltage ignition system also will
make even greater performance
at the command of the Oldsmo
bile owner.
Frigidaire car conditioning,
which provides the comfort of
refrigerated air to cool the in
terior of the car, is being offered
on the 1953 Oldsmobile for the
first time as optional equipment.
GM power steering again will be
available as an effort-saving ac
cessory at extra cost, as will the
Automatic Eye, the amazing
automatic headlight dimmer
which was introduced in 1952.
Oldsmobiles again will be pro
duced in three attractive lines -
the Classic “98”, the Super “88"
and the Deluxe “88”. Hydra-
Maiie Super Drive i« optional
equipment on all three 1953
aeries.
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gained a great many votes by hi» «tand on
federal spending and taxation. And most
of the other winners, in both parties, em
phasized economy and eventual tax reduc
tion in their campaigns.
It looks as if we may be coming to the
end of the handout era at last. It has been
an era of incredible waste of our money—
and, as is inevitable with spendthrift govt.,
it has been an era of widespread corrup
tion. One of the greatest and most neces
sary tasks confronting the Eisenhower
government is to replace prodigality with
। thrift.
I cushioning the economic shock of illness,
and their benefits and coverages are being
steadily broadened. The cost is within the
, means of the vast majority of employed
people.
It is true that there are unfortunates
who are entirely or almost entirely with
out resources to meet tthe cost of illness.
They represent a very small minority of
the population. They can be helped to
whatever extent is needed without de
stroying our whole medical system as we
know it, and making the politician the
boss of the doctor—at a tremendous cost
to the taxpayers.
In no other major nation has there been
greater medical progress than in the Unit
ed States —and in none do the masses
the people get such excellent care. Th?'
is an achievement of free medicine, n r
socialized medicine or politically run medi
cine.
Porterdale Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Benton,
and Sonny, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Bobby Smith, and Bobby Jr., in
Covington Sunday.
• * * •
Harriet Autry visited her grand
mother, Mrs Lillie Mae Autry,
in Monroe for a week of her
Christmas vacation.
♦ ♦ * *
Mr, and Mrs. John E. Shaw and
son, Bob, spent Christmas holi
days tn Valdosta, with Mrs.
Lucile Wisenbaker and Mr. and
Mrs. A. B Shaw,
♦ ♦ * ♦
Airman Fust Class Lewis T.
Shaw has returned from a tour
of duty in Japan and is spending
a furlough with his wife in
Porterdale.
♦ • * •
Petty Officer Gerald Duke, of
Norfolk, Va., spent Christmas
holidays with his family in Port
erdale. During his furlough Mr.
Duke spent many days at the
bedside of his wife who under
went an emergency appendectomy
at a Milledgeville hospital.
• * * *
Roy Webb Jr. returned to his
work Monday, Jan. 5, after be
ing confined to his home, at 7
Pine St., with a painful back
injury sustained in a fall while
installing a television aet.
• ♦ * •
Friends of Mrs. Louise Rawls
were happy to learn of her
return December 22 from Pied
mont Hospital where she was a
patient for more than a month.
Mrs. Rawls will be confined *o
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Er.tered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
her home at 2fi S. Broad until
February.
* * • •
Mrs. Lester Castleberry has
been a ptienf at St. Joseph’s In
firmary for several weeks. Her
friends are wishing for her a
speedy recovery.
* * * *
Sharon Bennett spent one week
of her Christmas vacation with
her grandmother, Mrs. Walter L.
Phillips, at Flippen.
• » « »
Dr. and Mrs. J .B. Mitchell Jr.
flew to New York for a Christ
mas vacation with Mrs. Mitchell’s
sister.
• « * «
Richard Thompson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Thompson, flew
from Lackftmd Air Force Base for
a Christmas furlough with his
family.
• • * *
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Hatfield, Mrs.
Fleeta Mills, and Mrs. Emmett
Yancey were among the guests of
; the Lummus family during Chriat
mas.
• • • •
Cadets Royce and Boyce Davis,
students at North Georgia College
in Dahlonega, returned to school
January 5. Cadet Boyce Davis
| spent a part of his vacation at
Crawford Long Hospital where he
underwent surgery on a knee,
hurt while playing football.
• • • •
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Vining and
children, of Greenville, S C.
were recent visitor* of their
family and friends in Porter-
jdale.
• • • •
Mrs. Alexander, the mother of '
Charlie Alexander, has return
ed io her home at 10 Hazel Street
after hospitalisation due io a
fractured hip sustained Monday,
Dee 22.
• * • •
Mws Doris Reynolds, a student
at Mercer University in Macon, i
has returned from the Christmas I
I vacation in Porterdale.
Stanley Day returned to !
G. M. C. in Milledgeville, Sunday,
January 4, after a vacation with I
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank I
‘ Day.
♦ • • •
Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
Roy Piper in the death of her
father, Mr. Byrd; to Alvin Jes ‘
fares in the death of his father,
and to the Barney Brooks family
in the death of Mrs. Brooks.
• * • •
The return of all the teachers
[to Porterdale who vacationed at
their various homes during the
holidays was welcomed Sunday
and Monday
THE COVINGTON NEWI
Extra Special
♦
Ip Lamp Sale
!
Thursday-Friday- Saturday
0 EVERY LAMP IN
J OUR BIG STORE
GOING IN THIS SALE
I Buy A Lamp At Our
J Regular Price—Pay 1c More
And Get Another
WE HAVE FLOOR LAMPS OF ALL KINDS, SOME WITH 1-WAY
LIGHTING, SOME TABLE LAMPS 3-WAY LIGHTING.
WE ALSO HAVE HURRICANE, ULTRA MODERN, PLANNER,
CHINA BASE, HAND DECORATED AND MANY OTHER STYLE
LAMPS. - COME EARLY!
PAY ONLY $1.25 WEEKLY
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(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) Thursday, January J.