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L.-Counly.•• Slai.
the office boy
t -tened Io Gen. Mark
K talk on this National
■L 0 „d Week, in which he
■ . that Brotherhood
Fin meant Fatherhood of
W inc t hal our national
Mfh [ay m its morality and
Ehlalitv our minds kept re
to a significant scene
OSunday Afternoon, which
■ G e privileged to witness.
iForlsurely brotherhood, which
Hjorter title for love of our
■ man could have been no
Ee kingly P ortrayed ’ tha 2A l
EL Baptist Church, which
lent by its pastor and
^K^ip. for special baptis-
Mervices for two new con
^■ln the Christian Faith,
■ Godhead is Love itself.
Hine casual observer, this
^3 have been a routine, if
M sl ve occasion. Not so, to
Hwho knew. Behind the
t hose who knew could
see as tangible things,
rnes prayers, heartbreak, tra-
y v 1 and tears, which were
firmed into a backdrop of
, ace and beauty by mankind's
ve L his brother, instigated
, th Heavenly Father's love
r His children. A love that
ok no cognizance of prison
■as it encompassed those
hind them. A love that could
low Ino rest, until it had re
lime lives lost in sin.
A terrible tragedy precipitated
e elimination of this particular
se. Alcohol had lead to near
lath for a participant in a
funk'n brawl. The heart of a
Kin was moved to prayer
at lx be given one other oppor
nity to help the victim. His
ayei was answered, the victim
Ved. Following through on his
fem mation, the young local
sought to win the soul
the man who had felt the
ush of the Death Angel’s wings,
lie lineman finally made his
tof®ion of faith in Christ; but,
lisHas only the beginning. The
■ soul-winner’s thoughts
ipt Graying behind the walls
.the county Jail, where those
spasible for his kinsman's
Mon. were held. Surely, he
as lot the one to seek to win
■ Hadn't his family suffered
oug । from their misdeeds? The
iliga ion weighed heavier, until
c4ld ignore it no longer. He
tsßelcomed at the jail by the
^■s wife, who strangely
ou«. also had as visitors the
^B s of the two men whom
so* ght to help. At their re
' was l ea d into the pres
ceinf those prisoners. As he
^Rd those mothers kneel in
sy^ clinging to the prison
know he had been right I
H meant for him to try. I
■ from his community were
in holding worship ser-
^vued on page 2)
.4 PROCLAMATION
Whereas WORLD DAY OF PRAYER has been
dwgnaled on an international and interdenominational
| to ioin the peoples of this world together for the
^■iherance of God's Kingdom and for Goodwill and
Bo* among all Mankind; and
■ Whereas the General Department of United
^Hurch Women of the National Council of Churches
designated Friday. March sth. 1954 as "WORLD
DAY OF PRAYER; and
■ Whereas the United Church Women of Newton
■ unty are cooperating in this observance;
■ Now therefore. I, J. L. Elliott, mayor of the city
0; Covington, Ga. do proclaim Friday. March Sth as
^■orld Day of Prayer" and do call upon the people of
^Bington and surrounding communities to observe
{■* day by accepting this as a personal invitation to
^■®nd the special service of prayer to be held at 10:30
Covington Methodist Church on that day. W the
■ les of some are such as to make this impossible, I
them, wherever they may be to lift their hearts
^■prayer at that hour and throughout the day that
1 * Player for all men—" That they may have life',
i« this year's theme, may be realized.
J. L. Elliott, Mayor,
City of Covington
Jentyttyo Scouts Meet District Court
M Honor Tonight In Porterdale Gym
■SIOf pT’ * • Explorer
J-L P " rte ' dalp 207. is
coutlß h receive his Eagle
gp ' top sc °ut ’ward, at
'WL.f' w ' ttockdalo District
hy). thn o1 ’ tonißht (Thurs
im a| 'in orlprdale Rymnasi
-1 lui^’ accord * n R to George
Dillan m" 8 ™- advancement
mJ, K J thc d “ tric t-
*thJ r S e e a to be made
»Ws: ' 0 honor are as fol-
T , roop 207
G ates, Soil and Wat-
“y . '■"omanship; Jim-
M ht„ P ;, I '’ ll ' cnia ^hip. Soil
hip L 1 •' u hincrv, Citizen-.
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VOLUME 90
Wo'"zß CHARGED WITH MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
-AL Cross Membership Drive Starts Monday
County Goal
Set At s4llO
Division leaders other at
ficals erf the Newton County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross made final plans Tuesday
night for the annual drive for
members and funds which gets
underway Monday, March 1, ac
cording to John Fuller, chairman.
The group met at the Elks Club
for a dinner and planning session.
The county’s quota was announc
ed as being s4llO this year.
Herbert Katz, drive chairman,
reported that the division chair
men have been named as follows:
Tom Hay, advance gifts; John Al
ford, Covington Mills; Leo Kline,
outlying areas; Mrs. Jack Mead
ors (Green Thumb Garden Club),
Covington residential area; Her
bert Corley, Starrsville; Parks
Lawrence, Newborn and Mans-1
field; Wilbur Johnson, Jackson I
Road; George Cherry, Brick]
Store; Mrs. Hamlin Callahan, Ox-।
ford; Jack Cook, Emory at Ox
ford; Paul Alexander, Porterdale; •
and W. J. Horne, colored.
Fourteen people attended the (
Tuesday night session: Jack Cook;
J. Hugh Steele, treasurer; Tom
Hay; Mrs. Frances Koeth, field
representative: Porter Tull, Red 1
Cross executive; John Fuller,
chairman; Mrs. Don Wood; Mrs.
Hamlin Callahan; Mrs. Derrell
Harper; Mrs.; Jack Meadors; Her
bert Katz, fund drive chairman;
W. I. Allgood; W. Marcus Bryant,
secretary; George Cherry; Parks
Lawrence, vice chairmen; and
Herbert Corley.
REGIONAL BASKETBALL
The regional boys basketball
tournament is being played
this week in the Newton High
gym. At press time last night
the locals were preparing to
meet LaGrange. Games will
be played tonight. Friday and
Saturday nights.
ehinery, Public Speaking. Soil
and Waler, Firemanship, Citizen
ship in Nation, Citzenship m
Communty, Citzenship n Home,
Athletics, Personal Fitness; Jim
my Bowman, Citizenship in Na
tion; Paul Hinton, Rabbit Rais
ing; Franklin Bennett, Textiles
Troop 209
Gary Gene Helton, Poultry
Keeping, Swimming. Finger
printing.
Troop 211
Robert Budd, Personal Fit
ness.
Advancement in ranks will h p
made in the following classes:
Second Class
Troop 207; Russell Hinton,
®he ffinutitninn News
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MEMBERS of the Mid Georgia Gat Company, a contracting firm,
city police and spectators gather at the corner of Church and
Conyers Street Monday morning when city police arrested Harry
Smith, ditching machine operator, and employee of W. A. Nunnally
Contracting Company, for malicious mischief as he started
digging. Here Jack Turner, manager of the Mid Georgia office in
Methodists Os
Porterdale To
Have Revival
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Rev. Peter Manning
Bewivel services witl be held at
She J>ts)>a A. Porter Memorial
Methodist Church. Porterdale,
beginning on the first Sunday in
March. Services will be held each
evening at 7:00 O’clock.
The Rev. Peter Manning, pastor
of the Park Street Methodist
Church Atlanta, wilt be the evan
gelist.
The public is invited to attend
all of these services, Mr. Rarfield
said.
John W. Bowman, RonAld Chris
tian. Sonny Guren, Richard
Moore
Troop 211: Arthur Davis.
Troop 226: Billy Hooper. Son
ny Benton. Lanier Wise.
,ea R
first Class
Troop 222: Hudson Felton,
Brownie Scott.
Star
Troop 207: Wayne Kirk.
Life
Troop 226: Joe McClure.
Eagle
Post 207: George Grove.
The advancement chairman
stated that the public is invited
and urged to attend thc court of
honor.
Covingtons Home-Owned and Home-Operated Newspaper
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1954
Local National Guard
Observes Sixth Birthday
This week the Newton County
National Guard celebrates its
■ sixth anniversary. On February
■ 26, 1948, the first National Guard
unit was organized here in Cov
ington. The unit was organized
as cannon Company, w'th a
membership of 12 enlisted men
and 2 officers. Shortly after
wards, under a re-organization
of the Army, Cannon Company
was changed to Heavy Mortar
Comany. The first Battailion
Medical platoon was formed two
years ago from members of the
Heavy Mortar Company, giving
| Newton County two National
'Guard units.
The company commander of
Heavy Mortar Company is First
I Lt. Oliver A. Morgan, of Por
' terdale. The two former com
oany commanders were Capt.
Marion Piper and Capt. William
I. Allgood. Other former officers
in the Heavy Mortar Company
were Capt. Hulon Hickman, now
with Hqs. Co., 122nd Regt., in
Atlanta, Ist Lt. C. Lee Harwell,
and 2nd Lt. William R. Giles.
The First Sgt of the Company
now is Master Sgt, Walter B.
Lewis. Earlier in the history of
the guard unit, two brothers,
Master Sgts. Moody Yarbrough
and Harold Yarbrough, had
served in that capacity.
Lt. Morgan reported this week
that the payroll for the guard
units during the past six years
has totaled more than $187,000.00.
About 85 former members ot
Heavy Mortar Company, who
are now or have been serving
in the Armed Forces, have bene
fited from National Guard ser
vice. They received basic train
mg with the National Guard
here, and m many instances, spe
cialized training.
The National Hoard now has
a special appeal to two major
groups of young men, and be
cause of this, a recruiting cam- i
paign was begun recently by
the guardsmen of Heavy Mortar
Company. Young veterans now
being discharged are required
to remain in the ‘‘Ready Re
serve” after discharge for an
average of six years. These vet
erans who join the National
Guard actually do not have their
reserve status changed. They
merely attend one Armory drill |
each week, plus fifteen days
field training each summer, for i
which they are paid at Regular )
Army rates. Men in the younger ,
Conyers, prepares to turn over S2OO for bond of the arrested man.
Left to right, Thomas G. Callaway, chairman of the Mid Georgia
Board: Mr. Turner: W. A. Nunnally, owner of the contracting
firm for whom Smith wes working at the time: Assistant Police
Chief Joe Lassiter; and Ray Littrell, president of Mid Georgia.
Bob Taber of WGFS looks on from the right.
I age group who join the National
; j Guard before they are 18% years
old are exempt from the draft.
During the first six weeks of
the recruiting campaign, fifteen
men have joined the Heavy Mor
tar Company.
Age limits for National Guard
service are 17 through 35. There
are still several specialist ratings
available in the Heavy Mortar
Company. The pay scale, annu
ally, begins at about S2OO. for
privates, and for non-commis-
(Continued on page 20)
Service Guild
Sponsors Show
At Newton High
The Covington Service Guild
is sponsoring a Minstrel and Var
iety Show next Tuesday Night
March 2, 1954 at 8 o’clock at the
Newton High School Auditorium.
Admission is SI.OO and 90c.
An all-star blackface east di
rected by Eddie Najjar of the
Newton High Faculty will be
presented in old time minstrel
style, with songs, dances, sur
prises and novelty acts.
Proceeds from the show will
be used for the Service Guild’s
local projects.
Children and adults will take
part in the show.
Oak Ridge, Happy
Four Quartettes
Concert Tonight
Wally Fowler and his Oak Ridge
Quartette of Nashvile join the Cov
ington Happy Four in a concert
at the Covington Junior High
School gymnasium tonight (Feb
25) at 8 P. M. under the sponsor
ship of the Newton County Sing
ing Convention.
William Crawford. Wallace Ed
wards, Bonham Johnson ajd
Johnny Johnson comprise the
Happy Four Quartette.
Proceed l - from the concert will
go toward financing a singing
teacher for the Newton County
•Singing Convention, a spokesman
for the group announced. Ad
mission fees are fifty cents lor
children over 12 and $1.25 or
adults.
Zion Baptist
Church Begins
Revival Sunday
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Rtv. GUY CAri LR
On February 28th, Zion Bap-
Hat Church will begin its re
vival meeting, going through
March 7, 1954. Services will be
held daily at 10:00 a m . and 7:30
p. m., Monday through Saturday.
The service will be held at the
regular hours on each Sunday
during the revival.
The Rev. Guv Carter of J-ack
sonville, Florida, will be the
visiting evangelist. There will
be good preaching and good sing
ing
Brother Carter is a full time
Evangelist, having conducted
several revivals hi Georgia and
Florida.
Brother Carter will preach his
first sermon at. the evening ser
vice on February 28th.
Rev. L. T. Allen, pastor, and
the people of Zion Church ex
tend a cordial welcome to every
one to attend these services.
Dennis On "Today
In Ga." Program
A. Balmont Dannis, Editor
and Publisher of ths Coving
ton NEWS, will appear on ths
"Today in Georgia" program
Friday. February 26.
This popular program is a
daily feature over WSB-TV,
Channel 2.
Mr. Dennis is expected io
appear on the program at
approximately 9:40 A. M,
Case Io Be Tried In
Recorder's Court Monday
City police of Covington arrested Harry Smith, ditching
machine operator for the Vt A. Nunnally Construction. Com
pany of Athens, here Monday morning under the provisions
of Section 31 of the city ordinances. Smith was charged with
malicious mischief, defacing and destroying public property,
along Church Street, adjacent to -
Covington IJirst Methodist
Church. Ray R. Littrell, president
of the Mid Georgia Gas Com
pany, stated at the scene that
Smith was operating the ma
chine for the construction com
pany which has contracted with
Mid Georgia to build a gas dis
tribution system in Covington.
The case will be heard in re
corder's court in Covington City
Hall Monday morning, March 1.
Recorder’s court opens at 9 A. M.
Smith posted S2OO which was I
furnished by Littrell through
W. A. Nunnally, according to
witnesses at the scene of the -
activity on Church Street Mon
day of this week.
Upon making the arrest. As
sistant Police Chief Joe Lassiter
told Smith and other witnesses
at the scene that he had been in
structed by his superiors to ar
rest anyone who was found
violating Section 31 of the city
ordinances, the one dealing with
malicious mischief. Policemen
Hinton Bailey and Vera Hooten
i were at the scene. A copy of the |
( charges were handed to Smith I
I by Bailey.
It was said Littrell was heard I
|to remark that the case would
b^ carried to a higher court.
It was reported that on several
occasions during the activity at
the scene, the gas company pres
ident was heard to ask Lassiter
if the oolice had been instructed
to halt the construction of a
gas system.
“I hope there are no hard |
feelings,’’ Lassiter said on leav-1
I ing the scene, “but I have to i
' carry out my instructions, which I
। were to arrest anybody who was i
violating Section 31, malicious i
j mischief.”
With reference to the efforts 11
made in the interest of a gas 1
system in Covington, Mayor Jack '
L. Elliott made the following 1
statement this week: 1
February 33, 1954. !
TO THE CITIZENS OF
COVINGTON
On December 5, 1949. she I
City Council granted to the New- I
I ton County Gas Company a 12 1
year franchise to put gas in i
Covington. This franchise was j
drawn up by the Newton County *
Gas Company and signed by the 1
City Officials. The franchise >
I specified that in case the Newton ■
County Gas Company failed to [ |
begin work within 12 months as- <
ter gas was available to them, t
then the franchise would be ;
null and void. (Natural gas was <
made available in Trancontinen- I
tial pipe line on December 8, (
1950.) The City waited for more t
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(Continued on page 3)
Worker Gets Police Ticket
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HINTON BAILEY, Covington policeman, hands malicious mischief
ticket to ditching machine operator Harry Smith here Monday as
the worker started his machine to digging near the First Methodist
Church. S2OO bond was paid by W. A. Nunnally. Trial will be in
recorder's court Monday in the Covington city hall.
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Brotherhood
Week Sponsored
By Sr. Tri-Hi-Y
The Senior Tri-Hi-Y of New
ton County High School is eon
j tinuing its policy of promoting
land sponsoring worthwhile pro
jects by sponsoring Brotherhood
Week February 21-28 in New
ton County.
Brotherhood Week is sponsor
ed each year by the National
Conference of ' Christians and
Jews. The objectives are “to
promote justice, amity, under
standing and cooperation among
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews,
j and to analyze, moderate and
I finally eliminate intergroup pre
judices which disfigure and dis
tort religious, business, social
and political relations with a
view to the establishment, of a
a social order in which the re
ligious ideals of brotherhood
and justice shall become the
standards of human relation
ships.”
These are of eourse the year
round objectives of the National
I Conference of Christians and
'Jews and each year a specific
j week is observed as Brotherhood
Week in order io give the peo
ple an opportunity to rededicate
themselves as individuals to the
basic ideals of respect for others
and for the human rights which
are essential to the good way
of Fife. It serves io dramatize
the practical things which peo
ple can do to promote an under
standing and realization of these
ideals.
feood human relations make
for good community life. The
benefits from the increase of
human understanding, the elimi
nation of ignorance and pre
judice, relief from personal dis
tress and unproved standards of
living result, m unity and prog
ress.
Ts intergroup attitudes and
habits of action are to be chang
ed from hostility and conflict,
that change will result from the
activities of those agencies which
create attitudes namely, the
home, church, school, chibfi ants
community organizations and
the mediums of communication,
radio, motion pictures, press and
advertising.
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