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Sadness ramp to Covington
when the news of the passing of
Mr. Lester Moore, of Decatur,
tame, he had been very ill for
sometime, and could not get well,
so the heartache was not unex
pected. No matter how we try
to prepare ourselves for this pass
ing from the shadow into day,
we cannot prevent Wie grief
stricken heart at the going away.
Mr. Moore married the former
Lucy Mobley, daughter of Mrs.
H. M. Mobley, and they had three
lovely daughters, Carolyn. Sarah
and Katherine. Funeral services
were held in Decatur, but he was
brought home for interment by
the side of Julian, the fine son
who gave his life in service in
Alaska during World War 11.
The hearts of all Covington and
surrounding territory go out to
each of the beloved children and
lovely wife, and other members
of the family. Mrs. Moore holds
a responsible position in the De
kalb County School System. They
have a lovely home at 196 Mid
way Drive. Decatur, only a short
distance from the home of their
eldest daughter, Carolyn, now
Mrs. David Dattlebaum. There
are four lovely grandchildren.
Carolyn has three and Katherine
one.
They were, in their Christian
faith, a beautiful example of
what God can do to us, if we
but let Him have His way with
in our hearts.
This has been a full week, and
we always advertise and boost
our Newton County Theatre
Group before the play, but this
time I will have to again say,
aft°r seeing the three short plays
staged on Friday night, also
Thursday night, that these were
the best yet! Every person miss
ing a play must realize that is
truly your loss. Too, if they can
give of their lime and talents to
go every night for weeks and
practice, and then scour the
country for proper stage settings,
lightings, equipment, and even
rent many costumes, then it is
the least we can do to support
this most delightful form of en
tertaiAment, for we need it in
our community. Too. if you are
not a member of this group, you
are cordially invited to join. You
may not be an actor or an actress,
but who knows? We all have to
learn, and this is the best way
for you. your sons and daughters
to learn . . . we have no dramatic
school here, so why not try out
and develop that hidden talent.
The group needs you in many
capacities ... to draw curtains,
to help plan stage settings to col
lect materials, to just stand by
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1957 Kiwanis Officers, Directors, And
Chairmen Organizational Meeting Held
The new officers, directors and
ehatrmen of the Covington Ki
wanis Club held a preliminary
organizational meeting at the
Elks Club Tuesday night.
The meeting was presided over
by Everitt H. Pratt, the incoming
president. After a delicious din
ner President Pratt discussed the
various committees, explaining
he had appointed the two vice
presidents, Don Wood and Mar
ion Piper in charge of certain
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VOLUME 92
SUMMERS PRESIDENT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
John Bob Weaver Resigns From City Council
Referendum Io Be Called Io
Elect Sucessor On Council
John Bob Weaver resigned from city council at a council
meeting held Saturday morning. Mr Weaver's letter resigna
tion was read to the council at a called business session
Saturday morning. The resignation was accepted with re
gret and the council voted to defer the election of a suc-
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Home Judging
For Christmas
Thursday Dec. 20
Judging for the Christmas dec
orations for home, business dis
trict ad churches will be held
Thursday, December 20 begin
ning ah 6 p.m.
The judges, Mrs. J. C. Jordan,
Mrs. McCurdy and Mrs. Ford of
Stone Mountain, will begin tour
ing the city at 6 p.m. and every
one is requested to turn their
lights on by that time.
The contest is sponsored each
year by the three garden clubs!,
of Covington.
phases of the work to help super
| vise the chairmen.
Vice President Don Wood wilt
work with the Boys and Girls
Committee. Vocational Guidance,
Agriculture and Conservation.
Support of Churches, Public and
Business Affairs, Int«erclub Rela
tions and Program Committees.
Vice President Marion Piper
will work with and supervise the
Circle K Club. Key Club, Kiwanis
Education and Fellowship, Under
privileged Children, Reception,
House and Special Events, Mem
bership, Public Relations and
j Finance Committees.
The six directors, including im
[ mediate past president John
Booth, have been appoint<ed on
several committees.
The Directors are: Homer
Sharp, Robert Shannon, Rucker
Ginn, Lanier Hardman, Wendell
Crowe and Past President John
Booth.
The office* of (the eAisb. who
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cessor until the new councilmen,
who had been elected, had taken
office.
The council voted to buy a
Model 104 Galion Motor Grader
from Tri-State Construction Com
pany, of Atlanta, at a price of
$15,659.00, with a trade in allow
ance for the old scraper of $2,-
659.00, leaving a balance of $13,-
000.00 to be paid on the new ma
chine.
Councilman Alvin Rape made
a motion that the City of Cov
ington cash $10,000.00 Govern
ment Bonds and place this money
toward payment for the scraper,
the bonds having matured. This
motion was carried unanimous
ly.
Motion was made and passed
i that work to the amount of
$450.00 be done in the clearing of
the banks of Dried Indian Creek.
Those present at the meeting
were: Mayor Elliott and Council
men Weaver, Smith, Allen, Kit
chens and Rape.
Another called council meeting
i was held Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of swearing in the
two new members of council,
Don Wood and Guy Evans.
After the two new members
had been sworn in the two form
er council members, Carl Smith
and Alvin Rape excused them
selves and departed.
Discussions were held as to the
election of a new member of
council to take the place of John
Bob Weaver, resigned.
After some discussion the mo
tion was made and carried un.
animously that the citizens of
Covington be allowed to express
their preference as to who
should be chosen by holding a
referendum and allowing the citi-
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will take office January Ist. are
Everitt H. Pratt, president; Don
Wood, vice president; Marion
Piper, vice president.; Ed Robin
son, secretary; and J- W. Brown,
treasurer.
The committee chairmen and
members for the year 1957 are
as follows:
COMMITTEES
Boys and Girls
S. J. Morcock. Chairman; John
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Throngs Crowd Square As Santa Distributes 3,350 Gifts
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Shown above is a portion of the huge crowd on hand to greet Old Saint Nick as he was escorted
into town, Friday Afternoon at 2:30 by Newton High and Washington Street School Bands, for
the gigantic Jaycee Christmas Party, staged on the City Square. According io a Jaycee spokes
man. this year's Christmas Party drew a record crowd, with some 3,350 toys and gifts being
distributed to children at the Annual Event.
Newton Community Theater Scores
Hit With Performance ”1 Plus 1”
The Newton Community Thea
ter has come of age with the ma
ture performance of “Two Plus
One", which opened the third
season.
The striking thing about a
community or “local” theater
group is the fascinating experi
ence of watching people “you
know” assume a new identity
and become, for an evening's en
joyment, an entirely different
personality from the everyday
one with which you are familiar.
Not that this “before-knowl
edge” is necessary to enjoy the
play. It simply increases the mea
sure of enjoyment. Many strang
ers to our town were observed
in Friday evening's audience,
laughing merrily at the high
comedy being enacted on our
stage. It was difficult to resist an
impulse to say, “Hello, who are
j you, and where is your home
town?
Bob Fowler was heard to say
that he had always thought of
his wife as a pretty little thing,
I but after her convincing appear
' a nee as the “scrub-worm — Mrs.
Haggerty,” he is going to have
to re-learn her qualities of beauty
and charm.
Someone has said that a wo-
Quarter Million
Dollars Paid For
The Nelson Estate
The Addie Nelson Estate was
sold Tuesday by the Todd Auc
tion Company to a number of
people. The timber was sold to
a Forsyth lumber company sep
arate from the rest of the estate.
The twenty three acres were
split up into lots and sections
and the total price paid for the
entire estate was said to be ap
pe<w»ma»ely >2*0.000.
man at sixteen is an exquisite
creation, at thirty an interest
ing restoration, at sixty a ruin
These women in “The Old Lady i
Shows Her Medals” were all
ruins, to the eye, that is. care
fully made to look so by the
make-up and costume committees
(who did a wonderful job, by the
way). But their personalities
were charming, none the less.
Their passionate interest in the
latest fashions worn by the so
cial set was only exceeded by
their fanatical pride in the war
experience of their sons. As Mrs.
Mickleham (Betty Knight) stated
the matter, the place for a fe
male with no male relations in
the war was inside the house,
with the blinds down.
Into this highly charged at
mosphere strode a real, live.
| “shooting-hero”, gl a mo r o usi y ■
decked out in the Black Watch
Kilt: Hearold Mann, escorted |
thither by a soft-spoken, helpful
minister, Nat Turner.
The scenes between Mrs.
Dowey (Katherine Paty) and the
Highlander soldier (Harold
Mann), were at once comic and
touching, as the rough soldier
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Guy Evans' Vote
Was 629, Eighteen
Less Than Wood
Guy Evans was the second
: high man in the city election for
council held Wednesday, Decem
ber sth. Mr. Evans received 629
. votes, just eighteen votes less
than Don Wood, with 647 votes.
Through a typographical error
! last week the vote for Mr. Evans |
was listed as 529 instead of 629.
We regret this error and gladly
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COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1956
Nixon Elected
Chairman State
Correction Board
C. Otis Nixon, who will retire
as Circuit Court Clerk the first
of the year, has been elected
Chairman of State Board of Cor
rections. Mr. Nixon has served
as a member of this board for
several years.
The board Monday elected C.
O. Nixon of Covington as chair
man, to succeed L. C. Burns of
Savannah, whose term expired.
Gov. Marvin Griffin swore in W. ;
D. Goff of Cordele to succeed
Bums to a five-year tern on the
board.
Employment, of Dr. Woodrow
G. Ellis as a surgeon at the Reids- J
ville prison hospital was author- .
ized. Ellis has been in the Navy.
The board voted to spend
$26,500 for 263 acres of land ad
jacent to the state prison and an
other SIO,OOO for building repair
to enlarge and improve prison
facilities.
Director Jack Forrester of the
State Department of Corrections
said the board proposed that the
department seek constructon of
apartments through the State
Office Building Authority for per
sonnel at the state penitentiary.
Newton High Band
Extends Invitation
Christmas Concert
You are cordially invited to
attend the Newton County High
Band's Christmas Concert. Make
your plans now to attend this
program of Christmas music, (
December 20th, Thursday eve
ning at 8 p. m. at the Newton
High Auditorium. The public is
itwwed.
Lassiter Vice Pres., Milligan
Treasurer, Jernigan Secretary
Moody Summers, Jr., President of the Covington Fur
niture Co., was elected President of the Newton County
Business Mens Association at their regular monthly meet
ing Monday. E. G. Lassiter, Jr., General Manager of White's
Enterprises, elected Vice President, Howard Milligan,
Manager Kroger Grocery Co.,
elected Treasurer and John Jern
igan, Attorney-at-Law, elected
Secretary for the year 1957.
The last meeting of the year
i was well attended, there being
36 members and guests present.
■ Wendell Crowe was the guest of
George P. MacMahon and Ben
T. Banks, Jr., was the guest of
S. J. Morcock.
Minutes of the last regular
meeting were read by John Jern
igan. secretary, and approved. A
portion of the minutes of the
January, 1956, meeting was read
and attention of the merchants
called to that portion of the
minutes which referred to the
vote to close Tuesday. December
25th, (Christmas) and Wednesday.
December 26th, for the Christ
mas holidays.
Carl Smith, as a representa
tive of the city council, present
ed the plan for an airport which
is to be constructed in coopera- 1
tion with the Civil Air Admini
stration. The government has
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allotted in excess of 216.000 for
the airport and the ciqv council
desired an expression irom the
Business Men's Association as to
their wishes. After sonje dis
cussion Belmont Dennis riQade a
motion that the Newton Qpunty
Business Men endorse antA ap
prove the building of the airrort.
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A Proclamation
WHEREAS: E. L. Ficqueiii has been accorded statewide
recognition in the performance \of his duties as superintend
ent of Newton County School!, and has been awarded a
Certificate of Service for nm< from the Georgia School
Boards Association:
WHEREAS; E. L. Ficquett tiolds the state record for
continuous Service as County Sahool Superintendent, and
has during his 32 year administration won wide-spread rec
ognition for Newton County Schoch System, with the result
that it has been chosen for constructive study by the South
ern Association of Secondary School and Colleges, as well
as other Educational Study Groups:
WHEREAS: Newton County Citizens wish in this way
to express their appreciation to Mr. -Ficquett, prior to his
approaching retirement, for his efforts^ in making ours one
of the top ranking school systems, and\ for his many years
of efficient service. \
NOW, THEREFORE. I, Jack L. ElAoti. Mayor of the
City of Covington, do hereby proclaim ihe day, December
18, as "E. L. Ficquett Day," in Covington^
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and have caused the seal of ihe CA“y of Covington,
Ga., io be affixed, this .twelth day of December, in the
Year of Our Lord, One Thousand, Nines Hundred and
Fifty-Six. \
Jack L. BHioM \
Mayor V
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Mayor J. L. Elliott has officially
designated Tuesday. December
18. as "E. L. Ficquett Day," hon
oring his 32 years of service as
County School Superintendent.
Courthouse Clock
Hands Are Being
Painted Silver
The hands and face of the
Courthouse clock were being re
painted Wednesday. The hands
are repainted a silver color which
will enable the citizens of New
ton County to see these at a
greater distance.
Work will be completed this
weekend and should be a great
improvement over the old colors,
as the silver color makes them
easily discernable at a great dis
tance.
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