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A Newton County jury declared late yesterday Seaborn
F. Peters of Covington guilty of the murder of Rosa Glenn
The jury recommended mercy, which means an automatic
life imprisonment sentence under the Georgia law. Judge
Clarence L. Vaughn pronounced sentence at approximately
Three Local
Students Start
At Tech in Fall
Among those accepted as of
this date for admission as fresh
men students to the Georgia
Institute of Technology for the
1954 fall quarter starting on
September 20th, according to
Registrar William Lawson Car
michael, are: Joseph L. Crews
Jr., 718 Floyd St., Covington,
who attended Newton County
High School and will major in
Industrial Management; Parks
W. Pratt Jr., 1320 Floyd St.,
Covington, who attended New
ton County High School and
will major in ludustrial Manage
ment; Norman T. Pugh, Coving
ton who attended St. Paul's Col
lege High School and will major
in Civil Engineering.
Their acceptance by Georgia
Tech is based on graduation from
an accredited high school, scho
larship, and fulfillment of the
high requirements of the larg
est technological institution in
the South and the third largest
in the Nation.
Georgia Tech students work
an average of 60 hours a week
in classrooms, laboratories, draft
ing rooms, and study halls, and
are required to complete at least
two years of English and two
years of basic military training
in either the Armv, Navy or
Air Force ROTC Units of the
Institute. Combined with intra
mural sports, social activities,
participation in student organi
zations, and contact with cul
tural and religious influences
found in the City of Atlanta,
students are aided and encour
aged in the development of in
tegrity, character and intellec
tual leadership in their chosen
professions.
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1 eters round Guilty; Jury Recommends Mercy
Mann Case Over Next
Term Under S4OOO Bond
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5:20 p. m. yesterday, The jury
Was charged with its duties and
the law shortly after 10 a. m.
Wednesday. Around 3 p. m. the
jury returned to the courtroom
for further information on cir
cumstantial evidence. Shortly
before 5 p m. Judge Vaughn
asked the jury for information
concerning the numerical stand
already established by the jury.
The foreman asked for a few
minutes more for deliberation.
Shortly after the five, the jury
returned to the box with the
verdict.
Peters was charged with the
murder of the Glenn woman at
her home in the Gum Creek
community in May, Since then
Peters has been confined in the
county jail.
The state's case was argued
by Solicitor Roy Leathers in the
Peters case.
Guy Mann, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ida Bell Alexan
der, was released on S4OOO bond
by Judge Vaughn. Defense coun
sels Reuben Tuck and John
Jernigan requested continuance
of the Mann case until the next
term of the Newton County Su
perior Court. The request was
granted.
Numerous cases of illegal pos
session of untax paid whiskey
and driving under the influence
were tried in this term of court.
Fines were paid in all guilty
cases, with no time sentences
given by the court.
Veteran Service Office
Closes for Few Days
The Veterans Service Office
located in the Newton County
i Courthouse will be closed July
29 and 30 of this week and
August 3 and 4 of next week.
The office will be open from
9:30 to 4:30 on Monday, Aug. 2.
Elkins-Morrow Annual
Family Reunion Sunday
The Elkins - Morrow annual
family reunion will be held at
Salem Camp Ground on Sunday,
August Ist, according to C. J.
Elkins.
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Mercock Mrs. Bonham Johnson. Mrs. S. J. Morcock. Dr. Guy
Eran* Frank Maeder, and Mrs. Guy Even, (back io camera).
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Membership Corporation, by the electric range she won as door prize at the annual meeting of the
members held last Thursday night at the junior High School gymnasium. Others in the picture from
left to right are: Lanier Parish, Gene Wallace. J. E. Robinson, manager of the EMC office, Mrs.
T. L. Methvin, turing the crank and Carl Ray. The child behind the stove is Vickie Treadwell who
drew the tickets from the box.
Macedonia Revival
Services Start
Sunday, August 1
Revival services will begin
Sunday, August 1, at Macedonia
i Baptist Church and will continue
through August 6. The Rev. O. L.
Duvall of Woodville will be the
guest minister. He is pastor of
several churches in Greene Coun
ty and has held revivals in many
areas throughout the state.
Bible school will also begin
next week with Rev. Duvall as
I principal. All children interested
are invited to attend from 8:30 to
11:30 each morning.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Four-foot Rattlesnake
Killed in Flint Hill •
A four-foot timber rattle
snake was killed Monday of
this week on Abner Harper's
place in the Flint Hill area.
Mr. Harper reported that it
is the first instance in his life
time of a rattler being killed
in the northern part of the
county.
The reptile had eight
rattles and one button.
Congressman Albert Sidney
Camp Dies After Long Illness
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Freddy Palmer
Gets Scholarship
At Emory Univ.
Freddy Palmer, son of Dr and
Mrs. Clarence B. Palmer has won
a research scholarship in bio
chemistry from the Lederle Lab
oratory for the summer course at
Emory University. The scholar
ship is valued at S4OO.
Freddy, a 1949 graduate of
Newton County High School, has
completed four years at Emory
University and will enter the
sophomore class in Medical
School at Emory this fall.
During high school Freddy
played left tackle on the football
team and forward in basketball.
He graduated with the first class
in the new high school building
under Newton High.
Aid Hay Fever Victims:
Cut Your Rag Weed
Citizens of Covington and
the county ware urged this
week to cut all fields and lots
of weeds which are now ma
turing. This is the season of
suffering by asthma and hay
fever victims, for this is the
season of weed pollen, parti
cularly ragweed which is a
major irritant to hay fever
and asthma patients.
Mt. Pleasant Has
Homecoming Sun.
' Homecoming will be held at
Pleasant Methodist Church Sun
day, August. 1, with Rev. Frank
Rarfield conducting the morn
; ing service.
Albert S. Camp. Democrat of
the Fourth District of Georgia,
died at Bethesda Naval Hospital
early Saturday of a liver ailment.
Married and the father of two
children, Camp would have been
62 years old Monday. He had
been under hospital treatment a
number of months.
The congressional veteran was
first elected to the House in 1939
and has served continuously
since then. He was the sixth
House member to die since the
present Congress was chosen in
November, 1952.
His death, together with the
resignation last Wednesday of Rep
Louis B. Heller (D-NY), leaves
the House lineup at 219 Republi- I
cans, 21 Democrats and 1 inde
pendent, all other vacancies ex
cept these two have been filled. |
I Mr. Camp was born in Coweta !
County, Ga., part of the district i
he later represented in Congress,
and got his early education public i
schools thre. He attended the
University of Georgia, earned a
bachelor of laws degree and set
tled down in 1915 to practice law.
His law career came to a tem
porary halt in 1917-19 when he
served as a member of the Ameri
can Exoeditionary Force's 82nd
Army Division.
Mr. Camp went on to hold a
seat in the lower House of the
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Boy Scouts Have Active
Week At Bert Adams
Last week the boys in Boy i
Scout Troops 207, 223, 222, and
226 were in Camp Bert Adams,
operated by the Atlanta Area
Council. B. C. Crowell was with
Troop 207, sponsored by the
Bibb Manufacturing Company,
Troop 222, sponsored by the
Covington Kiwanis Club, and
Troop 223. sponsored by the Cal
vary Baptist Sunday School, ■
were led by J. W. McElroy,
Henry Fitzpatrick and Edward
Rowe. J. C. McClure was with
Troop 226. sopnsored by the
Bibb Manufacturing Company.
Swimming, hiking, canoeing,
handicraft, archery, Indian Lore,
nature. Scouting skills — all were
in th day's fun.
Donald Dimsdale. Harris Loyd,
and Ricthard Chapman of Troop
207; William Trammell, Roy .
Steadhan. John Richardson.
William McMichael, Jimmy
Dimsdale, Harry Mask, Sidney
i Cook, Tommy Rape, and Char-,
Adamson, Flynt, Irotter
Stay; Jordon Withdraws
Four person qualified k> seek election to the Fourth Wa
trict congressional seat made vacant by the death of Repre
sentative A. Sidney Camp. Mr. Camp died last Saturday,
One of the four qualified was so qualified before Mr. Camp’s
death, while one of the three who qualified last Saturday
withdrew from the race earlier
this week.
Democratic Party officials said I
Monday that a law passed at the I
last session of the General As- ।
sembly has thrown doubt on
whether entries may be reopen- j
ed to permit other possible qual
ifications.
The primary is Sept, 8 The ,
new law provides that entries '
must be closed 45 days before I
the primary. It caused three can
didates to qualify late Saturday
with Georgia D. Stewart, secre
tary of the Georgia Democra
tic Executive Committee.
Those who qualified Satur
day are William Trotter of La-
Grange, former state senator;
Robert H. Jordan of Talbotton,
state senator, and John J. Flynt
of Griffin, solicitor general of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit and
newly elected president of the
Georgia Bar Assn.
State Sen. Robert H. Jordan
of Talbotton Monday withdrew
from the race, leaving three
candidates vying for the House
post formerly occupied by the
late Rep. Sidney Camp.
Meanwhile, Albert Wallace of
. Newnan, who was Camp’s execu
tive secretary for five years, was
named campaign manager for
Frank Adamson of Jonesboro,
the only candidate qualified to
oppose Camp before his death
Saturday.
Gov. Talmadge, whose Love
joy farm is in the Fourth Con
gressional District, said Monday
he would not run for the House
post in the Sept. 8 primary, al
though he said he was “deeply
appreciative” that friends had
urged him to make the race.
George Stewart, secretary of
the state Democratic Executive
Committee, announced Jordan’s
withdrawal from the race. Party
officials had reopened qualifica
tions over the weekend, and
Jordan and two others qualified
before the deadline.
Following Mr. Camp’s death,
Jamei, Peters of Manchester,
chairman of the Georgia Demo
cratic Executive Committee, an
nounced that under party rules,
entries would be reopened for
five days.
Then came the question of
the new 45-day law.
A soldier vote provision, it was
passed to apply to primaries
somewhat along the lines of the
long-existing 90-day closing rule
for general elections.
‘‘lf you don’t count Sept. 8,
Saturday at midnight was the
last day under the 45-day law,”
Mr. Stewart explained. “If you
do count election day, Sunday at
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les Clark, all of Troops 222 and
22."; and Jackie Mitchell, Billy
Finely, Ronnie McGibonny,
Fletcher Wood, Earl Wood, Gar
land Curtiss, Junior Jenkins,
Johnnie Walden, and Grier Holi
field of Troop 226, all worked on
their Second Class Rating.
Donald Carter, Ronald Carter,
Ronald Christian, Sonny Gw'nn,
Robert Mitchell, John Bowman.
Richard Moore, Russell Hinton,
Doug Wheeler, Larry Mills, and
Lanier Patterson of Troop 207;
Tommy Wiley, Bobby Pickerel,
Phillip Lewis, Charles Horn
buckle, Henry Fitzpatrick, Bill
''anson, Larry Parnell, Johnny
Capes, Steve Day, and Larry
Byrd of Troops 222 and 223: and
Bobby Mobley and Jack Loyd
of Troop 226, were out for their
First Class. The rest of the boys
in these Troops, Jack Gates.
Frank Bennett. Cleveland Digby
and Nealus Wheeler of Trnop
207; Grier Stephenson, Steve
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1953
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Conteets
Grand Jury
Presentments
For July Term
The Grand Jury of Uve July
Term 1954 of the Newton eounty
Superior Court recommended
tha several repairs be made in
and about the eounty court
house. They praised tha eounty
commissioner, Tom Bates, for tha
good job he is doing. Judge
Frank Guess, Solicitor Roy
Leathers, Sheriff John Berry
and other officers of the county
and court were lauded by the
Grand Jury for their good work.
The complete text of the pre
sentments follows:
Grand Jury Presentment
July Term 1954
Newton Superior Court
Georgia, Newton County:
We, the Grand Jury selected
and sworn for the July Term
1954, Newton County Superior
Court, submit the following
presentments:
1. We find that most of the
Venetian blinds on the windows
of the court house are in bad
state of repair and we find the
balcony floor and railing in very
bad state of repair and needs
attention at once.
2. We find the jail in good
state of repairs.
3. We find all bridges and
roads in our county in good re
pair and thank our commissioner
for the good job he is doing for
our county.
We extend to Judge Frank
Guess, Sol. Roy Leathers, our
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Homecoming And
Revival Sunday At
Sardis Church
Homecoming Day will be held
at the Sardis Congregational
Church Sunday, August 1. Re
vival services will begin on this
date and continue through Fri
day night with services each
evening at 8 p. m, The Rev.
Scott Morris will be the preacher
for the revival services.
The public is cordially invited
to these services.
A basket lunch will be served
at the noon hour on Sunday,
August 1.
Reynolds. Phillip White. Ijueyy
Studdard. Godfrey Trammell,
Lin Dearing, Perry Haymore, »nd
Jimmy Johnson of Troop 222 and
223; and Gerald McGibonney,
Sam McClure, Joe McClure, and
Durward Savage of Troop 226,
were out for Merit Badges for
their Star, Life and Eagle Ranks.
The Bert Adams program is so
arranged that each troop has
two activity periods a day. They
take part in these activities as
an entire unit. One of the good
things about these troop actir
ity periods is that the boys m
the troop are the ones who de
cide what to do. The troops
above used their periods to ad
vance their skills in swimming
nature, camping, archery, and
compass work. During one of
their periods they earned the
Paul Bunyan Axe Award; «t
another thev learned the basde
fundamentals of handling a rifle.
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