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By THE OFFICE BOY
God, in His wisdom, has pluck,
od another beautiful flower, down
here in His flower garden to make
Heaven more beautiful. Dr. James
Mobley Combs, better known
throughout this Piedmont section
of Georgia, as “Jim” . . . was dear
to the hearts of all who knew
him. He grew up in Covington,
the son of the late Rev. Walker
Combs, who was for 31 years
pastor of the Baptist Church here,
and Mrs. Walker Combs, who is
now making her home in Social
Circle. Jim’s brilliant career as
a physician and surgeon will ever
live in the hearts of Georgia phy
sicians, surgeons and patients.
Our hearts ache with those so
dear to him, and especially do we
extend heartfelt sympathy to his
Mother, wife and three children,
and Walker Combs, his brother,
who flew down to see him from
San Antonio . . . and after his
return was taken Io the hospital
for surgery himself, and cannot
be with his Mother and the family
who so need him. We pray that
the Great Physician will place His
gentle hand upon the wound in
bleeding hearts, for each of them
know the Great Physician, and
how to* look to Him for strength,
assurance, and peace and perfect
understanding within their hearts.
Our children were with us dur
ing the past week. It was such
a joy to have them, and especially
nn the occasion of our sister and
brother’s 25th Wedding anniver
sary . . . Bill and Junior are just
her little brothers, for she grew
up with them, and of course that
makes their lovely wives her sis
ters! It was a happy occasion!
You can't fool “my shadow’” very
long tho . . . for three weeks
We worked and planned a nice
party for them . . . Surprise Party,
and sent out invitations! W’e could
no't have it in their home for they
were having their house done
over outside . . . brick veneering
it. . . . and the man was to start on
it the Monday before the party,
and I could just see the front
porch torn off . . . so it was over
here! Just three days before they
found out about it?lt was a sacred
occasion to us, and the beautiful
Ties of friendship welled up a
gain, with loving friends helping
to make it a success ... We wish
1o express our appreciation here
first, for every loving kindness in
helping arrange the party ... in
serving and in everything you
did. I am sure each loving deed
will live in our hearts forever . . .
yet there was one gift which will
possibly be the most sacred of
all. That came from her Sunday
School Class ... a gift of $50.00
to their Church’s building fund!
Nothing could have been more
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Dr. E. E. Lee
Suffers Broken
Hip In Fall
Dr. E. E. Lee, beloved, retired
affiliate of the Southern Baptist
Convention sustained a broken
hip in a painful fall here Friday
morning in a local store.
The fall which occurred around
eight o’clock, was not thought to
have inflicted any serious in
juries. and Dr. Lee returned to
his home on Floyd St.; but was
carried to Newton County Hos
pital later in the day. After x
rays revealed the fractured hip,
Dr. Lee was transferred to Geor
gia Baptist Hospital, where his
condition is reported as good.
The NEWS joins hosts of
friends in Newton County and
throughout the Southern states
in wishing Dr. Lee arapid and
pleasant convalescence.
Newton Co. Hospital Authority Happy Over Anniversary
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Above ere shown the members of the Newton County Hospital Authority who have given many
hours of tireless labor io endeavor to make Newton County Hospital one of ihe best and they
feel on this second anniversary their labors have been rewarded. Left io right: S. A. Ginn,
Mrs. Aubea Sherwood, B. B- Snew. L. A "Dinty” Moore. Chairmen; and Leon Cohen.
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VOLUME 92
BLOO^BILE DUE COVINGTON OCTOBER 29
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Nev. L County Hospital’s Second Anniversary
Successful Year
Administering To
Community Ills
October 17 marked the second
anniversary of the Dedication of
Newton Qounty Hospital, reali
zation of one of the finest goals
in New'ton County’s progress and
development.
Under capable leadership of
Newton County Hospital Author-
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ity, composed of;
L. J. Moore,'
Chairman, S. A.
Ginn, Vice
Chairman, B. B.
Snow, Secretary,
Leon Cohen and
Mrs. Aub r a
Sherwood; Mrs.
Anna Laura
Reid, Admini
strator. the Hos-
pital has played a vital role in
community life; and established
an enviable record of service
[ and accomplishment.
Not only through the medical
care program, but in training of
members of- the community in
nursing care, through the Red
I Cross Volunteer Nurses Aid Pro
gram headed by Mrs. E. E. Calla
way, Sr. and Mrs. Linton Smith,
I and the Diversified Cooperative
। Training High School Program,
' under the direction of Mark
Davis, Newton High School DCT
{ Head, which has been of in
, estimable value, in {hg knowledge
and'care of 1 the sick.
The infiltration of this basic
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One Killed And
Several Injured
In Two Wrecks
Two accidents Sunday night re
sulted in the death of one and
injury to five others.
Willie Lewis Drikell, Negro, 27
। years of age, was killed in an
accident on Porterdale Road,
when the car in which he was
riding was said to have tried to
pass another on a curve and ran
headon into a car driven by Mr.
Archie Brown.
Mr. Brown was treated at the
Newton County Hospital for
lacerations on hand, knee and
shoulder and dismissed. Mr.
Brown was alone in the car.
Two other negroes were in the
other car and Sylvester Cooper
and Maddox woman were treated
at the hospital and dismissed.
The other accident occurred
■ when three young men from
Route No. 2, Conyers, lost control
of their car and it overturned.
Albert Christian and brother
Billy Christian and Jimmy Har
per were treated at the Newton
County Hospital and dismissed,
none seriously hurt.
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SI F OOO Is Raised
During First Day
Boy Scout Drive
The Boy Scout Finance
Drive launched Tuesday in
Covington under the leader
ship of E. G. Lassiter, Jr.,
Chairman for Covington, was
receiving warm support, accord
ing to Charles King Jr., District
Finance Chm.
The drive began Tuesday, Oc
tober 16. with a kick-off break
fast at the teen-can at,7:00 am.
with the following men in attend
ance:
S. J. Morcock, W. W. Crowe,
Charles King, Don Wood, Bob
Campbell, C. G. Henderson. Fred
Harwell, Howard Brooks. Joe
Haymore. John Booth. E. W. Ex
ley, Neal Banks, Tom Wiley,
Howard Milligan, Moody Sum
। mers, Jack Meadors. Oliver Rape,
j John Jernigan, Clyde Castleberry,
‘ Herbert Vining, Lees Stephenson,
Sam Cowan, Aubra Sherwood,
Dr. E. J. Callaway, Everett Pratt,
George Hutchinson. Wendel John
sson, Rucker Ginn, Fleming Touch
stone, P. M. McNiven. Bill Craw
ford, Hugh Steele, Jack Gibbs,
Rev. Frank Prince, Rev. Edgar
; Callaway, Lester Dollar Scout
executive, Atlanta, and Ben Mose
| ly, Finance executive, Atlanta
! Area Council.
Chairman Lassiter presented an
; inspirational program- including
1 remarks by Rev. Frank Prince,
Rev. Edgar Callaway, Lassiter,
Morcock and Mosely. Team work
j ers were Assigned their prospect
lists and by noon many reported
their assignments completed with
100 percent response. By 3:00 p.m.
‘over SIOOO.OO had been turned in
1 to Dist. Treasurer R. R. Fowler.
J The Covington Drive is expected
I to be completed this week.
! W. D. Childers, Jr., Chairman at
Covington Mills, plans its drive
I for the next two weekends as
do B. B. Snow and Bernice Shaw
lin the drive at Porterdale.
The drives at Salem under
I chairmanship of Doyle Bailey and
: at Almon, James Dobbs chairman,
| start next Sunday. The Oxford
! drive starts at the Oxford Lions
Club meeting Thursday night, led
■by Carlos Meyer. The Mansfield
'drive sponsored by the Mansfield
(Lions Club, Joe Webb, Jr., Presi
dent, starts its drive at its Mon-
I day night meeting featuring an
address by E. G. Lassiter, Jr.
The finance committee express
i the wish that everyone in the
county participate and invite
| anyone who is not contacted di
rectly to send in their donations
1 to R. R. Fowler, treasurer before
November 1.
Prof. E. J. Brown
Layman's Day
Speaker Newborn
Professor E. J. Brown of Ox
ford will be the Layman's Day
speaker al the Newborn Metho
dist Church Sunday, October 21.
The public is invited.
Covington's ONLY HOME - OWNED and HOME - OPERATED Newspaper
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1956
Commissioner of Agriculture Speaks at Mansfield
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Above is pictured those on the program of the Mansfield Lions Club meeting held recently at
which Phil Campbell, Commissioner of Agriculture, was the featured speaker. Lelt to right:
Hardy McKinney, Newton County Agent; Phil Campbell, Commissioner of Agriculture; Fred Hays,
program chairman and Joe Webb, Jr., president, Mansfield Lions Club.
18 New Members
Are Elected To
Local Key Club
The Newton County High
School Key Clpb held its regular
meeting Wednesday, October 10
with all thirty-five members
present. Sam Ramsey, president,
presided.
The club voted to purchase
raincoats for the school safety
patrol, which is an activity of
the Student Council of Newton
County High. Notice was given
that dugs of SI.OO per member
were due before the November
meeting. Committees and com
mittee chairmans were an
nounced.
The club is presently selling
football programs at the home
football games. The programs
I are selling well and a record
number of ads from local mer
! chants was obtained this year.
Another project now being done
! by the club, is selling and taking
up tickets at the junior high and
"B” team football games.
The program was given by
Sam Ramsey and Joe Sharp on
their trip to the International
Key Club Convention held this
past summer in Dallas. Texas.
A film was shown of the trip,
and some interesting highlights
of the convention and trip were
told.
New members elected by the
club are: Larry Capps, Mike
Caudill, Jimmy Coggins, John
Dearing. Lin Dearing, Henry
Fitzpatrick. Freddie Greer. Soop
er Harwell, Perry Haymore,
Charles Hornbuckle, DcZiald
House, Lee Milligan. Olin Pres
ley, Joe Rainey, Jimmy Ram
sey, Henry Rogers: Durward
Savage, and Don Wood.
Old member: are: Bryon Bo
hannon. Quinton Boyd, Kent
Campbell, Wendell Crowe, Harold
Darby, Douglas Doster, Marshall
Edwards, Irby Edwards, Billy
Harwell, Teddy Knowles, Larry
I Laster, Elliott McElroy. Phillip
M'lligan. Willie Moore. Walter
, Pope. Sam Ramsey, and Joe
j Sharp.
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Dr. J. M. Combs
Funeral Is Held
Atlanta Oct. V
Funeral services for Dr. James
Mobley Combs, Sr., were held
at Spring Hill, in Atlanta. Wed
nesday, with burial tn Social
I Circle.
Dr. Combs passed away after
approximately a month’s illness
at his home, 951 Dean Drive, N.
W., Atlanta. He had spent some
time at the Georgia Baptist Hos
pital prior to being removed to
his home when his condition
was so critical no hope was left
for his recovery. He would have
been 41 years of age the day
after his death.
Dr. Combs was the son of the
late Rev. Walker Combs, and
Mrs. Combs, who was pastor of
The First Baptist Church for 31
years. After retiring Rev. and
Mrs. Combs moved to Social Cir
cle, the girlhood home of Mrs.
Combs,
Dr. Combs was Salutatorium
of his High School Class at grad
uation and was an honor student
; both at Emory at Oxford and
j Emory University his entire
four years of college.
Upon graduating from Emory
University he attended the Uni
versity of Georgia Medical School
at Augusta, graduating with
honors in 1942.
He served as a Lieutenant in
the U. S. Navy, medical officer,
until the end of World War 11,
spending most of his wartime
service in the Southern Pacific.
Dr. Combs was a member of
the American Medical Associa
tion. the Medical Association of
Georgia and the Fulton County
Medical Society.
Dr. Combs was a member of
the First Baptist Church, the
Cherokee Country Club, West
End Businessmen’s Association,
Beta Kappa Phi and Alpha Omi
cron Alpha, medical fraternities.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Constance Beck Combs;
daughters. Diana Beck Combs
and Dorothy Gibbs Combs; son,
James Mobley Combs Jr.; moth
. er, Mrs. J. Walker Combs Sr.,
Social Circle, and brother, Jer
ry Walker Combs, Jr., San An-
I tonk>, Tex.
Pig-Chain Show
Was Held Friday
At Heard-Mixon
At the local Pig-Chain Show
at Heard-Mixon, sponsored by
Sears Roebuck and Company,
Friday P. M. October 12th James
Knight, Soil Conservation Tech
nician of Newton County. W. H.
McKinney, Newton Agent and
Leo Mallard were the judges.
Joe Aiken took first place with
his spotted Poland China gilt
and Stanley McDonald placed
second, entitling them to show
in the Area Show at Macon the
following day, October 13th, in
competition with pure bred gilts
of different breeds from 27 other
chapters in the Macon Area.
Michael Pulliam showed the
boar, which was also taken to
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PICTURED ABOVE are FFA winners at Heard-Mixon School. They are, left to right, Michael
P.ulliam, fourth and fifth place winner; Joe Aiken, first place winner with pig in foreground;
H. M. Pulliam, vocational agriculture teacher; Aubra Sherwood, president of Covington Rotary
Club who presented the prizes given by the Club; Hardy McKinney, county agent; Jim Mc-
Knighi, soil conservationist; Stanley McDonald, second place winner with pig in front; Adrian Mc-
Donald, third place with pin in front and Bill Aiken, in foreground, father of first place winner.
First and second place winner* were shown at Macon Fair.
200 Pints of Blood Goal
All Civic Bodies Cooperating
Extensive arrangements are being made in an attempt
to get a number of donations when the Bloodmobile returns
to Covington Monday, October 29th. Newton County has
used more than 250 pints of blood than they have donated
and those in charge are exerting effort to secure a large
donation when the Bloodmobile r
returns.
James E. Hardman, of Porter
dale, is chairman, with Don Wood
as Co-chairman. B. B. Snow, is
assistant coordinator of the en
tire project and is lending his
enthusiasm and talent toward
wiping out the deficit of our hos
pital in the use of blood.
R. W. Holder, advisor of Post
207 Explorer Scouts and Billy
Crowell, scoutmaster Troop No.
207 are also asssting in Porter
dale and over the county.
Arrangements are being made
to provide transportation for
those who desire to give blood
and provide every opportunity
and convenience for the donors.
Following are those who are
cooperating:
| Luke Hill, Commander of the
American Legion.
Garland Hillman, commander
. of the colored Legion.
American Legion Auxiliary,
Mrs. John Chesnut, President.
American Legion, colored. Sa
ra Frances Thompson. President.
Mansfield Scout Troop, J. F.
Lazenby, scoutmaster.
Covington Scout Troop, W. J.
Campbel], scoutmaster.
Oxford Scout Troop. J. W.
Burson, scoutmaster
Men’s Club at Almon, Edgar
Wallace, president.
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Robert Campbell president.
The Bloodmobile will be at the
Newton County Hospital from 2
P.M. to 7 P.M.. Monday October
29th. and it is believed a record
number of donors will be re
i ceived.
Mrs. A. S. Hopkins
Hospitalized
From Fall
Scores of friends will regret
to learn that Mrs. A. S. Hopkins
sustained multiple pelvis frac
tures in a fall at Union Station
in Atlanta Friday morning.
Mrs. Hopkins, who was en
route to visit her son, Vickey
Hopkins in Abingdon, Va.. fell
on the Union Station escalator
as she arrived from Covington
to change trains. Her condition
is reported as satisfactory at
Crawford Long Hospital.
The NEWS joins other friends
i in wishing her a rapid recovery.
15,000
READERS WEEKLY
Revival Begins
Julia Porter
Church Sunday
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Rax. R. W. Green*
Revival services will begin st.
the Julia A. Porter Memorial
Methodist Church on Sunday, Oc
tober 21 and will continue
through October 28 with services
each evening at 7:30 p.m.
Rev. R. W. Greene, evangelist,
will be the speaker each evening
with Joe Clark as song leader.
Rev. Greene received his edu
cation from Emory at Oxford.
Emory University and Candler
Schoo] of Theology.
He has served as pastor in
Warm Springs, Ga.. Dunw’oody,
Ga., Reinhardt College as profes
sor of Bible and Director of Reli
gious Life, and Burns Memorial
in Augusta.
He is married to the former
Miss Saralyn Claire Cannon of
Warm Springs and they have a
daughter. Nancy and two sons,
Lawrence and Stewart.
The public is invited to attend
these services.
Prof. W. J. Dickey
Layman's Day
Speaker Mansfield
Professor W. J. Dickey will he
the Layman's Day speaker at the
Mansfield Methodist Church on
Sunday, October 21.
The public is invited.
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