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Weld By Scouts Os District
H] e '' l )lans lor a 40-mile
B, ^thon for Boy Scouts
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light at .? unccc ' here Monday
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WlL^ .nl‘i ampins chairman,
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OLUME 90
TR' PED FOXES ON INCREASE. BATES SAYS
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Legion And Auxiliary Birthday Party Monday
State Officers
To Visit Local
Celebration
Area Legionnaires and Auxi
liary members are planning a
celebration of the 35th anni
versary of the birth of The
American Legion.
D. M. Clower, commander of
birthday banquet has been sched
uled for March 8 at 7:30 p. m.
Newton County Post 32, said a
Mrs. Ty C. Cason is president of
the Auxiliary.
A number of State Department
officers of the Legion and Auxi
liary are expected to attend.
They are: Sidney Dodd, state
commander, Statesboro; Mrs. S.
C. Moon, state Auxiliary presi
dent, Gainesville; Jack Lang
ford, state senior vice comman
der, Griffin; A. E. Luke, state
junior vice commander, Atlanta;
Harold Bird, 10th district histori
an, Loganville; Mrs. Fred Roe
buck, 4th district Auxiliary pres
ident, Newnan; Mrs. Guy Par
rett, 10th district Auxiliary pres
ident, Loganville, and Mrs. R L.
Hargrove, state rehabilitation-1
chairman, Atlanta.
The local event will be part,
of a coast-to-coast chain of post i
celebrations.
McNiven Named
Rotary Head
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P. M. McNiven, Covington
businessman, was elected presi-1
dent of the Covington Rotary
Club here Tuesday noon at the
regular luncheon meeting <<
the civic group, according to.
E. G. Lassiter, president. Me- 1
Niven, with other new officers,
will be installed at the end of
the Rotary year in June.
Other officers elected at the
Tuesday meeting include: E. G.
Lassiter, vice president; Howard I
Brooks, secretary; C. G. Hender-1
son, treasurer; and Guy Robin
son, and Otis Spillers, two-year
members of the Board of Di- 1
rectors.
Visitors at the meeting in
cluded Jerry Fields and N. R-
Haywood, Rotarians of Monroe.
Johnny S. Prescott, manager
of White's Tire and Auto Sun
ply, was installed as a new
member by Howard Brooks, his
sponsor.
Girl Scouts Hold
Annual Cookie Sale
Girl Scout Troop One will
have their annual cookie »ale
on Friday and Saturday, March
5 and S. Thia i* an annual event
to raise funds for their sum
mer camping trip. So when a
Girl Scout comes knocking at
your door, don't turn her down.
Buy a box of cookies. They are
reasonably priced and are
fresh and good.
meeting include a camping trip
to Camp Strachan, Savannah by
district Scouts on March 14-17.
Wendell Crowe. Scout-o-rama
chairman, reported that all scouts,
cubs through explorers, will par
ticipate in a colossal show at
Grant field on May 1. It is expect
ed to be the biggest scout event
of this type to ever take pk ee in
the nation. Over 40,000 people
! are expected to w itness th al lair.
: Crowe reported.
B. B. Snow reported that the
। finance drive in the district ap
pears to be sue cssiul, although
returns are not complete.
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Division Leaders of Local Red Cross Drive Make Plans
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DIVISION LEADERS and other officials of the American Red
Cross Membership and Fund drive in Newton County are shown
at a recent meeting preparatory io the drive which is currently
underway in the county, left to.right, seated: Mrs. Don Wood,
Mrs. Hamlin Callahan, Mrs. Derrill Harper, Mrs. Jack Meadows;
standing, Herbert Corley, Porter Tull, George Cherry, John
Fuller, and Jack Cook. Herbert Katz, drive chairman, reported
that the division chairmen have been named as follows: Tom
Disputed Whiskey
Case Goes To
Court of Appeals
Sheriff John'Berry reported this
week that the ruling by the New
ton Superior Court on the 75
cases of bonded whiskey which
Berry confiscated last December
has been appealed to the Court of
Appeals by «he State Department
of Revenue. The hearing will be
heard on April 12 in Atlanta.
The Superior Court ruling
stipulated that the confiscated
whiskey is county property, but
a provision in the ruling prohibi
ted the county's disposing of the
contraband prior to further
higher court action.
Young Harris College
Head Speaks Here
The First Methodist Church
Men’s Club will meet Monday
night, March 8. at 6:45 at the
Church. This will be Ladies Night
and the guest speaker will be Dr.
R. Clegg, president of Young
Harris College.
Spring Holidays At
• Emory at Oxford
Spring holidays at Emorv at
Oxford will be held March 12-21,
according to Registrar. M. C
Wiley. Final exams will begin at
2:00 P. M. on Saturday, March
6, and will continue through Fri
day, March 12. according Jo Ad
ministrative Assistant C. Lee
Harwell. '
Others who attended the meet
ing are: Harry Maner, field exe
cutive: William C. Wardlaw. At
lanta Area Council president, who
commended the group for the
outstanding work being done by
the district; Homer F. Sharp. Ed
Holmes. Joe Burch. Manson Mill
er, Jim Cook. Martin Goode,
j/me; Brimblctt, Bill Allgood,
W, C. Ivey. Fred Harwell. Man
sg'er of White’s Department
Store, local distribtUui ol scout
ing equipment: W. A. Childers Jr.,
Don StephNison. M. B. Shaw and
t Chester Clark.
CoYington's Home-Owned and Home-Operated Newspaper
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1954
Red Cross Drive For Members
And Funds To Be Accelerated
Herbert Katz, chairman of the
Newton County Red Cross 1954
campaign for members and funds
reported this week that the
present drive is expected to
reach full force within the next
few days. No preliminary re
ports had been received by Mr.
Katz as this edition of the NEWS
went to press.
Committee chairman and vol
unteers are expected to complete
the drive within the next sev
eral weeks in an effort to reach
the s4llO goal for Newton Coun
ty-
'Mr. Katz met this week with
J. W. Horne, negro County Ag
ent, and volunteer negro work
ers in their kickoff dinner meet
ing. This affair was held at the
Washington Street School. Twen
ty-eight leaders in negro affairs
of the county were present, and
will serve under Chairman
Horne.
The Red Cross drive seeks
funds needed to meet extensive
responsibilities for humanitarian
service at home and abroad, and
citizens of our County are urged
to respond to this call for volun
teer workers and funds.
City Raises Water,
Sewerage Rates
Rates for water and sewerage
have been raised for Covington
patrons who live outside the
city limits of Civington, accord
ing to action taken Monday
night at the monthly meeting of
the City Council. The new rates,
$3 for water and $2 for sewer
age, were effective March 1 apd
will appear on the April billing,
according to Clyde Castleberry,
city clerk.
Other highlights of the meet
ing were the appointment of tax
assessors, the fixing of dates for
tax returns and announcement
that two-way radios will be
added to city vehicles.
Appointed tax assessors were
J. S. Gardner, Sr , H. C. Cook
and Walter Stephenson.
Two-way radios will be added
to city vehicles, including police,
at a cost of $2500, Castleberry
said. The radio control station
will be at City Hall and will
operate on a 24-houi ba-is.
Radios will be placed tn the
vehicles of Albert Parker, elec
trician: H. O. Whelchel, super
intendent, and Charles Geiger,
utilities foreman.
Hay, advance gifts: John Alford, Covington Mills: Leo Kline,
outlyng areas; Mrs. Jack Meadors (Green Thumb Garden Club),
Covington residential area: Herbert Corley, Starrsville; Parks
Lawrence, Newborn and Mansfield; Wilbur Johnson, Jackson
Road; George Cherry, Brick Store; Mrs. Hambn Callahan, Oxford:
Jack Cook, Emory at Oxford; Paul Alexander, Porterdale; and
W. J. Horne, colored.
Lions Club Annual
Broom Sale Here
The Covington Lions Club
will hold its annual Broom Sale
this week. House to house she
will be made in Covington on
Thursday and Friday nights,
with sales on the Square Sat
urday, Sales Chairman Lawton
Skinner reported. Jack Burney
and L. G. Carney are in the
committee with Skinner.
Proceeds from the sales go
toward meeting the expenses of
the Lions Club's civic projects,
which include eye tests for all
school children in the county
and the building of a wayside
park noer one of the major
highways in the county. Bill
Daughtery, club president, said.
Den Mothers and Assistants Honored at Blue and Gold Banquet
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CUB SCOUT Den Mothers and Assistant Den Mothers of Pack
58 have been given the credit for the outstanding success of the
peck by Jim Cook, Institutional Representative of th eßotary club.
Here are several of them at the annual Blue and Gold Banquet
of Pack 58 held recently, left »« Hght: Mrs. O‘is Spi’Jer,
Rev. Manning To
Lead Revival At
Porterdale
Revival Services will be held
at The Julia A. Porter Metho
dist Church, beginning March
7. Services will be held each
evening at 7:00 o'clock.
Rev. Peter Manning, Pastor
of The Park Street Methodist
Church, will be the Evangelist.
Mr. Manning is well known in
this part of the North Georgia
Conference and he is looking
forward to seeing many of his
friends in Newton County.
Mr. Forris Finley and the
pastor of the church will have
charge of the song service with
Mrs. M. R. Johnson at the organ.
Cake Sale by Gleaner
Class in Porterdale
PORTERDALE ... The Glean
er Class of the Julia A. Porter
Memorial Methodist Church at
Porterdale will have a cake sale
at White’s Suoer Market in Port
erdale on Saturday morning,
March 6, at ten o'clock. "Come
to see the cakes and buy them
for your weekend meals,” a
spokesman for the group urged.
397 Killed Foxes Reported
In Past Eleven Months
The first month of the fox control program indicates
considerable progress is being made, County Commissioner
Tom Bates reported this week. The number of fox ears
turned in for bounty more than doubled during February
over January. Bates said that there were 72 pairs brought
to his office between February
1, when the program started,
and March 1.
The commissioner reported
that 397 pairs of fox ears have
been brought to his office for
bounty since April 1, 1953, when
the bounty was begun. The
month-by-month breakdown of
killed foxes reported to the com
missioner is as follows: 1953-
April, 17; May, 77; June, 62;
July, 30; August, 9: September,
21; October, 17; November, 33;
December, 29; 1954—January, 30;
February, 72.
Runie Tumlin, the county
trapper, reports that several
trappors are accumulating a num
ber of fox ears before turning
them in for bounty; thus, the
amount of bounty paid out since
the beginning of the trapping
program on February 1 is not
an accurate account of the effec
tiveness of the program, Tum
lin said.
The county has issued 638 .
traps to farmers and others who -
are active in the control pro- ;
gram. Numerous livestock have
been lost as a result of rabies
spread by rabid foxes in Newton 1
County. Several people in the
county have bepn exposed to
‘ rabies through rabid pets and
livestock. This health threat to
both man and beast brought
demands for action from many
citizens in the county. The
trappng program, as set up by
, federal and state experts, is
designed to bring the fox popu
lation under control and to ease
the rabies threat.
County Junior
High Basketball
Tourney Begins
The Covington Junior High !
gymnasium will be the scene
this week of the Newton County I
Junior High School basketball |
tournament. The games will be J
played on March 4,5, .and 6.
The first game will be Porter- I
dale vs Palmer Stone girls at |
7:30 P. M. tonight Thursday/
March 4.) Covington boys meet
Livingston tonight at 8:30 P. M.
On Friday the Covington girls
meet Livingston at 7:30 P. M.
Palmer Stone boys will play
Porterdale at 8:30 P. M. on Fri
day, March 5.
On Saturday the consolation .
games will be played at 6 P. i
M., girls; and 7 P. M., boys; '
the girls finals at 8 P. M., I
and boys finals at 9 P. M.
Willie Campbell, Mrs. Harold Dobbs, Mrs. L. H. Reed, Mrs.
Vernon Bowden, Mrs. E. L. Smith, Mrs. W S. Cook, Jr., Mrs.
R. P. Campbell, Mrs. Godfrey Trammell, Mrs. Thomas Wallace,
Mrs. Fred Lott, and Mrs. Olin Allen.
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1953
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Gas Controversy
Case To Be
Heard March 26
Hearing on the malicious mis
chief case made last week against
Harry Smith, ditching machine
operator for W. A. Nunnally Com
pany, Athens contractor for Mid-
Georgia Gas Company, was post
poned at recorder’s court in Cov
ington Monday.
1 The Athens firm had contracted
with the Mid-Georgia company
to build a gas distribution system.
City officials are contesting the
validity of a franchise claimed by
; the Mid-Georgia company and
brought the charge against Smith
■ when the construction firm began
work on the main.
A petition has been filed with
Judge Frank Guess of the Stone
Mountain Circuit by Mid-Georgia
asking that the city be restrained
from molesting the company in
' building the gas main.
Mid-Georgia obtained its fran
chise by purchasing assets of the
Newton County Gas Company.
Mayor Jack L. Elliott, said the
franchise given the Newton Coun
ty company became void when it
failed to begin work on the tine
within 12 months.
I The case against Smith was
postponed Monday on agreement
iof counsel for both sides, pend
| mg a hearing on validity of the
Mid-Georgia’s franchise here on
; March 26th.
Ten-week Art Class
To Be Held Here
Mrs. W. W. Crowe announced
this week there will be another
art class held at the Covington
Junior High School starting Fri
' day afternoon March 26. These
classes will be under the direc
tion of Dr. Crawford Livingston
of Oglethorpe University and will
continue for a ten-week period.
The art classes have been held
here twice before and were en
i joyed by everyone taking the
■ course. Interested persons should
' get in touch with Mrs. Marion
Piper, Mrs. F. C. Nesbit or Mrs.
I Crowe for further information.
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