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SMOKE WAS ONE of the main haaards in fighting the fire here Monday which destroyed the
W. T. Greer Stock Barn and Ginn'a Tire & Paria Company buildings. The picture above was taken ’
shortly after the Greer Barn burst into flames. Fire fighters with hose can be seen in upper left
hand corner of the picture atop the Greer Hardware building directing water info the burning
structure.
Newton Hi-Y
Club Work Is Continued
During The Entire Year
By 808 GREER
Prabably the most active youth organization connected
with high school work is the Hi-Y Club of Newton County
High School of which L. M. Burke is the adviser.
Mr. Burke i« "General overseer.
Dean and Chaplain’’ to some 57
member* of his club and he
.seems to like his work inasmuch
as he has shouldeied these re
sponsibilities for six years.
YMCA work in the S'ate of
Georgia engulfs a total of some
SOO clubs, which comprise non
equipment pha»e of the Y work
Other than the larger cities of
the state there are no YMCA
Or YWCA buildings for the club
activities. Consequently much of
this character-building work has
fallen to the high schools of the
state.
Most Newton Countians real
ize that the Youth Assembly,
which is annually a highlight in
the Y work, leaches our boys
ard girls the technique of run
ning the state government. Geor
gia is one c three Southern
states that has the Youth As
sembly.
Many local boys have taken
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HI-Y MEMBERS buaily engaged in one of their many projects are shown here at the door of the
Newton High gymnasium selling tickets to a basketball game. This is one of their many chores as
part of their elub work at the school. Shown in the picture are (with backs to the camera) Marshall
Edwards (left) and Olin Pressley. Facing the camera (sealed) are Henry Odum HI and Mike Lott.
Standing. L. M. Burke, adriser. and Elliott McElroy. Purchasing tickets from Pressley are Grier
Stephenson and Monty Willson.
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an active officer role in the
' State Hi-Y w’ork. At present
i Marshall Edwards is President
■ of the Northeast District and
he’ll preside at the forthcoming
f meeting at Thomson.
■ The purpose of the Hi-Y club
is set forth in the following
words that pertain to each mem
’ ber:
“Create, maintain and extend
i throughout the home, school and
' community, high standards of
। Christian character.’’
Hi-Y's platform takes in four
important ideals:
(1) Clean speech.
(2) Clean scholarship
(3) Clean sportsmanship.
(4) Clean living.
Mr.'Burke, whom Newton High
officials have entrusted to run
the Hi-Y club, was born and
reared in Millen. Georgia. He
i attended Georgia Teachers Col
lege at Statesboro, and received
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This Paper Is Covington's Index To Civic Pride and Prosperi ty — Not Just A Newspaper But An Institution
Has Numerous Club Work Achievements
his Master’s degree at the Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens, in
Industrial Arts.
He first came to Newton Coun
ty in 1938 and taught Industrial
Arts at Porterdale High School.
Then he had sojourns at Calhoun
County High School as principal,
and Colquitt as Industrial Arts
teacher. After serving in the
Navy for three years during
World War 11. he returned to
Newton County and taught at
the Livingston School.
One of the first things Mr.
Burke accomplished in his ini
tial Hi-Y association at NCHS
was to get a distrit conference
meeting here in 1952 And again
last year the Christian Life Con
ference was held here with the
largest attendance ever.
In talking to the genial In
dustrial Arts professor of NCHS.
cne gathers the idea that Mr.
Burke is truly the type to help
mould our boys for future gen
erations. He talks of his present
and past proteges of the Hi-Y
club just like they are destined
to occupy the higher echelons of
Education, Politics. Business and
Society in the not too distant
future.
The present Hi-Y club at New
ton High is headed by an officer
slate that is made up of some of
the highest-type boys in the
school. President is Henry Odum
111, whom Mr. Burke describes
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957
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FIRE RAGES IN THE upper story of the Ginn Auto Parts building
(above) in offices of the State Highway Department. Records and
office equipment were destroyed. Firemen are shown shooting water
into the windows. This photo was taken from the front of the
building and shows the intense smoke that hovered over the fire
fighters. Winds were blowing in the direction of the hose crew
here.
Commissioner Campbell to Speak
Al Social Circle Lions Meeting a
Georgia Commissioner of Ag
riculture Phil Campbell will be
jthe main speaker at a meeting
of the Lions Club in Social Cir
cle. Monday, February 18 at
6:30 p.m.
President of the Social Circle
Lions Club is W. B. Stephens, Jr.,
who invited the Commissioner
to speak at the meeting, which
will be held at the Bertha Up
shaw Club House.
Mr. Campbell is also president
of the University of Georgia
Alumni Association and he has
been in demand by civic orga
nizations and fraternal clubs alt
over the state for speaking en
gagements for the past year.
He is a native of Watkinsville,
and much of his life was spent
on the family's farm near Wat
kinsville. He worked his way
through the University of Geor
gia, Athens, where he ranked
among the upper 10 percent of
his class academically.
It is expected - that Commis
sioner Campbell will talk on the
as an ideal officer-type boy who
thrives on hard-work and extra
activities for his club; Vice-
President is Olin Pressley, who
is really a beaver for work es
pecially when athletics is con
cerned: Don Wood is secretary,
and most of his spare time is
taken up as an active participant
in football, basketball and base
ball; Elliott McElroy is treasurer
and also second vice-president
this yea rof the Rock Eagle Con
ference.
Other capable and enthusiastic
officers of the present club are
John Dearing. Chaplain; Phil
Milligan, Reporter; and Larry
Capps. Sergeant-at-Arms.
Newton Hi-Y club has invari
ably attained one of the highest
ratings that can be earned from
tie parent State YMCA organ
ization. A maximum of 520
points is possible through the
ten-point system that the grades
are based upon, and Newton has
reached that figure and more for
the past six years.
In enumerating the projects
that the Newton HirY Club have
accomplished or are now engag
ed in, one would have to place
their efficient work at the bas
ketball games at the top. The.'
rot only sell the tickets and
‘keep the door", but their mem
bars help out in numerous ways
with the general public who
come to the gymnasium to the
cage affairs. This year marks
the fifth straight year the
Furke boys have relieved the
school faculty members of this
job.
Other noteworthy things that
the club has helped with in-
I elude taking tickets at the foot
ball games in the reserve seat sec
licn as well as having members
on the main gates.
Generosity and love for the
older people and those-who may
be misfortunate come in for thmr
j share of the good work done by
MR. CAMPBELL
Farmers’ Market system in Geor
gia and the new Atlanta Farm
Market buildings which is un
der construction at the present
! time.
I the club. Members carry maga
! zines to the Jail and to the
Hospital each week. Another
benevolent phase of the Hi-Y
group is helping pack Christmas
boxes and delivering them for
the Empty Stocking Fund.
The club, through its devo
tional chairman, Olin Pressley,
joins with other clubs at the
high school in giving the devo
tional over the Public Address
system. Only last week the
“Teen Talks” were started at
NCHS at the Assembly. Os the
seven topics chosen for the sever
weeks, the Hi-Y Club has been
selected for three of those.
Patriotism is one of the upper
most things stressed by the Y
group. Two of their member
have been instrumental and
punctual in raising and lowering
the flag at the school for the
past two years. They are Cooper
Harwell and Larry Capps.
One of the collection cam
paigns by the club is undertak
en at the Holiday Season or
shortly thereafter when old
Christmas cards are gathered and
sent to Atlanta to the "Sunshine
Lady.”
If the reader has been a pati ■
ent at Newton Hospital they
have probably seen the handi
work and thoughtfulness of the
Hi-Y elub on Sunday morning.
Club members -make small Bible
verse cards for the breakfast tray
e^ch Sunday morning. This prac
tice was carried out during the
summer-vacation months aho
Future harvest of the Hi-Y
club members can best be told
by Mr. Robert O. Arne Id. oi
Covington, who is Chairman r'
the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia:
“There is no delinquency to
day and no problems tomorrow'
w here the influence of Hi-Y and
Tri-Hi-Y prevails . . ”
Sea You In Church Sunday
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REAR VIEW of the Ginn Auto Parts building soon after the roof collapsed is shown in the photo*
, graph above. Fire and smoke boiled skyward for more than two and a half hours Monday as the
two buildings and content* went up in flames.
Colonial Stores
Pay Quarterly
Cash Dividend
Regular quarterly cash divi
dends of 50 and 62 l ?e per share
on 4 percent and 5 percent pre
ferred stock, respectively, and
27’-2 c dividend per share on com
mon stock was announced at
Colonial Stores Incorporated's
headquarters here following a
meeting of the Board of Directors
in New York. The dividends, as
declared, are payable on March
1, 1957 to stockholders of record
Irving Dietz At
New York Marts
Irving Dietz. proprietor of
Dietz Women's Apparel. is
spending this week in New York,
where he is attending the spring
showing of latest fashions for
Easter and summer in infants,
children's and women's wear at
the leading merchandise marts.
With emphasis on feminine
frills this season. Mr. Dietz ex
pects to bring back enchanting
styles to delight the heart and
enhance the charm of every miss,
from the carriage to the con
vertible age. Spring styles for
boys of the bassinette and strol
ler crowd will also be included
in purchases for the younger set.
according to Mr. Dietz, who is
expected to return this weekend.
Leo Mallard, Jr. Receives /z God and Country Award''
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SHOWN AT Covington Baptist Church, which Joined other local churches in the observance of
National Boy Scovt Week on Sunday, i s Explorer Scout Leo Mallard. Jr. receiving congratulations
from his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Edgar A. Callaway, from whom he had just received the "God and
Country Award" he is wearing, which was pinned on by his mothor. Mr». Leo Mallard al right
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H. F. Meadors Dry Cleaning And
Laundry Founded 31 Years Ago
H. F. Meadors Dry Cleaning
and Laundry is celebrating its
37 th anniversary this week
Founded in February, 1920. the
firm has grown into one of the
most prosperous businesses in
Newton County.
Started with a capital invest-
me n t of $125
the plant em
ploys more than
50 people, and
operates a fleet
of 5 trucks.
The firm mov
ied to its present
location in 1927.
land several ex
pansion pro-
' grams have been effected- The
main floor embraces 6. 474 square
feet. Upstairs storage, two stor
age warehouses, and other mis
cellaneous space, houses present
operations.
More recently the office space
of the firm has been remodeled
and modernized for the conven-
February 15. 1957.
Colonial Stores is one of the i
10 largest food chains in the :
country, operating more than 450 I
super markets in 11 states east
of the Mississippi: Alabama.
Georgia. Florida. Indiana. Ken
tucky,' Maryland. North Caro
lina, Ohio, South Carolina, Ten- I
nessee and Virgina.
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ience rtf patrons, Mr. Meadors
stated.
In 1949 the plant acquired the
I^Sanitone franchise in this area,
a .process featured since. Frank
i I Meadors, ovkper, regards this cne
jof the most ^dvanced cleaning
. ! processes since starting in busi
i ness. \
A new process, “Velva-Soft.”
i is also used for Meadprs laundry
customers.
Mr. and Mrs. Meadors' continue
active io the operation’ of the
plant. A sor£.Jack, is associated
with them.
In commenting oh the 37th’ an
niversary. Mr. Meadors rdm
mended the plant's employees
for their faithfulness, and ex
pressed thanks and appreciation
to friends and customers for
their valued patronage over the
years. “We will hf happy for
you to come in and visit us,” he
concluded. ''\
A page ad calling atten^tpn tn
the Meadors 37th anniversary is
carried in this issue of The Nwi-
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Barbecue February 27
The members of Mansfield Me
thodist Church are making biz
plans for their barbecue. Wcdnes- '
day, February 27. The church .
: hopes to be able to pay off if - en
tire annex debt so that the build
ing may be dedicated soon.
, Keep the date in mind and read '*
the NEWS next week for details.