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Thursday, November 22, 1956
Program For
Civil Defense
By MRS. ANNIE LAURA REED
I o expedite a successful com
promise with any disaster, a
planned program of organization
has been outlined. It will re
quire the cooperation and assist
ance of every person in Newton
County to plan for any type of
disaster which may strike our
community.
We might consider the follow
ing disasters:
1. Tornado
2 Hurricane
3 Explosion and Fire
4. Transportation accidents
5. Civil riot
6. Enemy Attack
Most disasters strike without
warning and confusion only adds
to the disaster toll. In consider
ing the above situations, let us
concern ourselves with these dis-
Thanksgiving
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Yes, it most certainly is
that Covington Auto Service,
Newton County's Ford Deal
er is deeply in debt! But we
are not ashamed. Not even
downhearted!
First: We are in debt to
our faithful employees—the
men and women who make
up our organization —for
their loyalty, integrity, cour
tesy, personal interest and
for the many hours of hard
work in our employment over
the 15 years that we have
been privileged to serve our
community. Their loyalty has
enabled us to sell over 6,000
cars and trucks and service
many, many more.
Secondly: We are deeply
in debt to the fine people in
Newton County, our custom
ers for buying new and used
cars and trucks, and allowing
us to service them; and for
the fine business people who
extended credit to us on our
word to pay.
Thirdly: We are thankful
to our town and county, to
the good old Empire State,
and the U.S.A., for all the
laws and regulations which
have enabled us to conduct
a continuous business —a
free enterprise profitable
enough that we were able to
pay all our licenses and taxes,
and yet enable us to live a
normal and healthy life with
our families and friends; and
for the protection of the Po
lice Department, and Fire
Department and Hospital.
Fourthly: We are in debt
to the fine businesses and
industries of our county for
the many blessings that they
have provided in the forms
of steady, safe, profitable
employment, which has en
abled their employees to buy
and pay for the merchandise
we have to sell. We are
deeply in debt for Emory at
Oxford, not only for its large
payroll, but even more for
the fine, cultured effect that
it has on our life.
Fifthly: Our debt is very
great to our fine schools, and
good, sound churches of our
community and to the truly
wonderful and dedicated
men and women who man
them.
And Sixthly: We are deep- I
ly indebted to Ford for a
steadily improved product,
and a 1957 Ford that prom
ises to have no equal.
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Yes, we are truly in debt
-‘—far beyond what our finan
cial statement would ever
justify.
But can't you see why we
are so proud and thankful
for this deep debt?
So — at this Thanksgiving
Time — we go deeper in
debt because we are allow
ed to pause, and with our
neighbors g’ve thanks to Him
for these many and unde
served and bountiful bless
ings that have come to us
over these rich, fine fifteen
years.
We hereby dedicate our
efforts toward paying all of
our debtors — and pray that
you allow us to incur many,
many more.
<Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
Tri-Hi-Y Adopts
Clean Speech
Campaign
By BETTY ANNE MASTEN
Reporter
The Tri-Hi-Y meeting for the
second week of November was
called to order by the president,
Sandra Bracewell. A most in
spirational devotional was pre
sented by Barbara Ketchem.
Barbara's devotional was center
ed around the second phrase of
the club’s creed “High Standards.”
There are lots of ways in which
a high school student has to be
careful to keep her standards
high, all of which were well il
lustrated in the devotional.
After the devotional, the pro
ject chairman, Davilynn Bohan
non, presented the monthly pro
ject to the club. For the project
the club will make little place
cards with a pretty colored tur
key pasted on it. A short ap
propriate prayer will be written
on the card. These cards will
then be placed on trays for he
Newton County Hospital patients
during the Thanksgiving holi
days.
The Tri-Hi-Y girls also deco
rated the goal posts as usual
for the last home football game.
The dance committee, headed
by Marsha Lott, made their re
port for the club's yearly dances.
The first dance will be the an
nual “New Year’s Eve dance’’
to be held on December 31. It
will be semi-formal and all stu
dents are invited. A band will
also add color to this festive oc
casion.
In addition to this dance, the
club will sponsor a “Sweetheart
Dance” in February, and a
“Twirp Dance” in early April.
The dance committee is Betty
Ann Masten, Sara Stephenson,
Peggy Crews. Kathrina McKay,
Mary Lee Costley and Annie Mae
Mask.
The annual “Clean Speech”
campaign is being sponsored by
the Sr. Tri-Hi-Y this month.
$200,000 Fund
Is Being Raised
For FFA Camp
E. S. Papy, president of the
Southeastern Fail and Atlanta
civic leader, will serve as dis
trict chairman for Northwest
Georbia in a November campaign
to obtain $200,000 for improve
ment and expansion of the Fu
ture Farmers and Future Home
makers of America camp near
Covington.
This was announced in At
lanta by W. R. Bowdoin, vice
president of the Trust Company
of Georgia and ate chairman of
FFA-FHA camp development
fund.
In agreeing to serve as district
chairman. Mr. Papy said he is
sure all citizens will wish to par
ticipate in the effort to improve
the camp facilities that are used
every summer by approximately
5,000 FFA and FHA members.
“This is . opportunity to in
vest in Georgia's future,” he em
phasized.
Mr. Papy also revealed that
county chairmen will be named
to assist in the effort.
The FFA-FHA camp has been
in use since 1938. Mr. Papy says
it was built because of the in
terest and contribution of those
who are or have been members
of the two youth organizations.
The young people who use the
camp are high school students
of vocational agriculture and
homemaking. The joint program
during the summer is aimed at
social, physical, spiritual and
mental development of the in
dividual through experiences
which are not provided during
the regular school term.
Other district chairmen i are
Col. Earle Norman, Washington
attorney; George W. Bazemore,
president of the First National
Bank. Waycross; and B. E. Allen,
assistant manager, W’oodlands
Division. Union Bag and Paper
Corporation. Savannah.
asters.
The Divisions of the Civil De
fense Corp have been established
as follows:
1. Law Enforcement under the
direction of the Police De
partment
2. Fire Service
3. Medical and Health
4. Transportation
5. Communications
6. Welfare Service
7 Information and Education
8. Warden Service
9. Engineering and Rescue Ser
vice
10. Evacuation Service
Community News from
Eudora
By ORELL AARON
Mrs. Dan Watkins of Washing
ton, D. C., spent several days
last week with Mr. and Mrs.
Elton Cunard.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McCul
i lough of Covington were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cunard
| Sunday afternoon.
Edwin Ozburn and children of
Decatur and Miss Eloise Ozburn
of Atlanta spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Emory Ozburn.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yancey and
George Yancey attended the fun
eral of Mrs. Jim Yancey in Haw
kinsville Tuesday of last week.
Mrs. Joel Hodge of Bethel was
the dinner guest of Mrs. Sam
Allen Sunday.
Rev. James' Brown of Macon
filled his regular appointment at
New Rocky Creek Sunday. Rev.
and Mrs. Brown and children
were the dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Cunard.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubie Cook and
Miss Faye Cook spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Coleen Kelly
of Atlanta.
Mrs. R. A. Moore, Mrs. Sam
Allen, Mrs. Tom Jones and Mrs.
Ralph Jones were spend the day
guests of Mrs. Joel Hodge of
Bethel Monday.
Mrs. Harry Ray and Mrs. Wal
ter Thomason spent Thursday in
Macon. Mrs. Ray going down for
medical treatment.
Friends of Mrs. J. H. Kelly
learn with regret that she is ill
at the Jasper Memorial Hospital
in Monticello, having fallen sev
eral days ago breaking her arm.
Mrs. Kelly is the oldest living
member of Prospect Methodist
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown Martin
and children of Miami, Fla., spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Loice Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lay son of
Mansfield, Mrs. Grover Kelley
and Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Smith of
iCalvin attended preaching at
1 N r w Rocky Creek Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cunard of
Macon spent Saturday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Cunard.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurmond Green
wood and children of Monticello
attended preaching at New Rocky
Creek Sunday and were the din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur Lowery.
Sb rrod Broome of Alma and
Mrs. John Cunard spent one day
recently with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Cunard.
Mrs. R. A. Moore spent one
day last week in McDonough.
11. Supplies Service
In the organizational plan, we
will call on people trained in
these areas to serve as heads of
the division plus volunteers to
augment services needed under
the stress and strain of a dis
aster.
Every section of the county
will be represented and their
safety planned for so that the
least confusion will exist
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Campaign To
Improve Sale Os
Timber Is Waged
Two things necessary to a suc
cessful timber sale, according to
Extension Service Forester Dor
sey Dyer, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, are mea
suring the timber and using the
proper scale.
Dyer said Georgia forests are
producing at less than one-half
their capacity. He continued that
poor sales do not encourage good
production, and added that this
seems to be one of the main rea
sons for the poor condition of
much of the state's woodland.
The Extension forester made
the statements this week at the
outset of a campaign to get Geor
gia landowners to sell their tim
ber by the Scribner log rule. The
campaign has a .long way to go,
he admitted. Approximately 90
percent of the timber now sold
in Georgia is scaled by the Doyle
rule.
The Extension Service and the
(Georgia Farm Bureau are cooper
! ating in this educational cam
paign. One of the first steps plan
ned is the distribution of 10,000
Scribner scale sticks for measur
ing trees and logs. The scale
.sticks are being distributed
through county Farm Bureau
chapters.
Discussing his organization’s
interest in the campign. Farm
Bureau President H. L. Wingate
paid, “It is my opinion that Geor
j gia farmers have lost more in-
I come or money in the sale of
logs than any other commodity
we produce due to the fact there
is so much difference in the scales
or rules being used.”
Dyer gave four reasons why
the Scribner rule is preferred
over the Doyle: (1) the Scribner
rule is based on a normal slab
allowance of 1-1/2 inches; (2) it
scales volumes very close to the
amount which can actually be
cut out of a tree or log of any
given size; (3) the percentage
i overrun by the Scribner rule is
fairly consistent regardless of the
size of logs or trees, and (4) the
Scribner rule lets a landowner
know the amount he is actually
. receiving for his timber, where
as the Doyle rule places a false
value on timber.
Dyer said the Doyle rule was
. accurate many years ago when
| large logs were sold. He said the
Doyle is still an accurate rule
if the logs are 28 inches or more
in diameter.
He explained that a feature of
the Doyle rule is that four inches
are de’ducted from the diameter
of the log as an allowance for
slab — regardless of the size of
the log. “This waste allowance
|is altogether too excessive for
! small logs,” the forester declar
। ed, “and the fact that almost
’ all of the logs being cut .today
। would be classed as small makes
and rule much more inaccurate
now than it was 50 years ago.”
Citing the difference in the
i two scales with a 16-foot log.
eight inches in diameter. Dyer
said the Doyle rule would scale
only 16 board feet of lumber,
while the Scribner would scale
32. With a ten-inch log, the Doyle
would measure out 36 board feet,
while the Scribner would scale
50 board feet.
A w oman's way of meeting ex
j penses is to introduce them to her
ihusband.
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Still ... in a
PORTRAIT
Newton-Rdale
I Forestry Unit
Is Commended
A special note of congratula
tions was issued today to the citi
zens of Newton County and the
Newton-Rockdale Forestry Unit
for their “outstanding” record in
the control of wild forest fires
over the past nine months. The
commendation came from H. E.
Ruark, Chief of Fire Control for
the Georgia Forestry Commission.
The overall goal of the com
mission,” Ruark said, “is to re
duce the percentage of burned
area in Georgia forest to less than
one-half of one percent annually.
But, Newton County has kept its
percentage below one-fourth of
one per cent burn for the past two
years.” Last year at this time,
Newton County suffered a loss
of 260.67 acres due to forest fires,
the fire control chief added. This
represents one-fourth of one per
cent of its total woodland acre
age.
“However”, he continued, “dur.
ing the past nine months, only
217.09 acres were destroyed by
fire in the Newton County area,
representing 0.21 of one per cent
of its total forest land.”
Ranger Jones, in reminding us
that the hunting season has start
ed stressed the importance of
continued vigilance against the
menace of forest fires. “Last
year,” he stated “there were 12
fires in Newton County caused by
hunters, these fires,” he went on
to say, “burned 102.57 acres of
valuable forest land”. The hunt
ers causing these fires evidently
woe not aware that they had
done so. If the fires had been re
ported promptly much of these
102 acres could have been saved.
Be carefull with smokes,
matches and campfires while par
ticipating in activities in or near
the woods, Ranger Jones urged
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people, living without fear in a free Vi= -J '
country. Like the Pilgrim Fathers,
let* us humbly acknowledge our / Jk < f alAOy \fl
debt to Divine Providence for all x / , :<
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that we are and may hope to be- <JHb f
come. Like them, let us bow our
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How better express the gratitude that is in .your heart than to
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Covington Junior
High School News
THIRD GRADE
Brenda Bonner
Barbara Stubbs
We are having a money bank
to make enough money to buy i
stars and the things we need.
We made 16c today. We started ,
Tuesday. We voted to bring an
orange this week. We are paint
ing Crayon Resist. Our room is
trying to have perfect attendance
for the month. Monday the
Scouts had a parade, because it
was Veterans Day. In the month
of November we are 'studying
about the Pilgrims.
We are learning to make scrib
bles and to make pictures on the
Hektograph. We have a new boy.
His name is Hagan Stroud. We
are learning to writeA We are
studying about Norway. We are j
learning to make animals out of
boxes.
W’e are taking turns taking I
out the jump ropes and ball. We ,
। are writing poems in our poem
! notebook.
Tuesday w’e had a Diagnostic
test in arithmetic. We have 29
in our room. Everybody is bring
ing a box of kleenex to pass
around. We are studying Health
and Arithmetic and spelling and
' reading and writing and social
studies. Next year we are go-
I ing to be in the new school build
i ing. Do you hope so too?
Mrs. Davis is a sweet teacher.
Very sweet and pretty. Mrs.
Davis gave everybody a nail to
hang their coat and booksatchel
on. Barbary and I like the lunch
room. Do you? Barbara and I
are in a reading group. Our book
and lets not have another such
year in Newton County. Above all
he further stated, report wild
fires promptly by calling:
Days — Newton Fire Tower 3742;
‘ Nights and Sunday. 7416.
is “If I Were Going.” Next week
we are not reporters, so we will
see you another time. Good bye!
HARSH SOAPS DAMAGE
LINOLEUM •
Harsh soaps and water tend
to make linoleum brittle and
cause it to crack, Miss Willie
Vie Dowdy, Extension economist
in home . improvement, warns. If
frequent wet mopping seems nec
essary on linoleum, she suggests
following with a paste wax or
polishing wax.
MEALS ON TIME
ABUNDANT HOT WATER
INSTANT HEAT
— with —
L P GAS
Safe Sure Economical
Ask EARL TRIBBLE, Agent
GAS, Inc.
Phone 2424 Covington
',A good outfit to deal with"
PAGE NINETEEN
WHEN TO PLANT DOGWOODS
Thinking about transplanting
some dogwood trees? Gerald E.
Smith, assistant Extension horti
culturist, says they can be trans
planted any time when the plant
is dotmant and does not have
leaves. Usually November, De
cember, January, and February
are the best months.
TRANSPLANTING DOGWOOD
TREES
Usually November, December,
January, and February are the
best months to transplant dog
wood, Gerald Smith, Agricultural
Extension Service horticulturist,
states. He recommends selecting
a time during this period when
the ground is moist, but not wet.
ATTETND CHURCH SUNDAY