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Thursday. March 7, 1957 (Our Advertiser* Are Aarared Os
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Job Well Done
Now that basketball has actually gone into hibernation
for another year, it might be fitting, we think, to pass along
a well-deserved bouquet to Coach Don Shea of the Newton
High School boys cage team.
Not that Coach Shea’s boys set the woods on fire by
a blaze of victories during the pest season, but his boys
did win 12 games of which at least half of those were
supposed to have been de
feats, judging by the material
he had for his team back in
early December.
Shea came to Newton High
in October mainly to help
coach the football team. He
had played basketball in high
school in Pennsylvania, but
when he enrolled at the Uni
versity of Georgia, he con
centrated on football under
Coach Wallace Butts. He was
selected for the All-South
eastern Conference football
team in his senior year as a Georgia Bulldog. Shea played
a guard position.
When he called for the basketball boys to report to
the gym for their first full-scale practice in December he
could count three boys who had played the majority of
games for Coach Gene Cork the season before. They were
Quinton Boyd, Joe Sharp and Kent Campbell.
It took his boys six games to get the victory sting and
then in the next four games they played like champions.
In the first win of the campaign they walloped the strong
Henry County boys at McDonough. Three games later
they terminated a 15-game winning streak of the Cham
blee team. In the Sub-Region tournament they again beat
the Chamblee team.
In between the regular season games Coach Shea's
boys copped the Newton County Invitational Tournament
by posting victories over three good teams — Loganville,
Conyers an 3 Winder.
Yes, indeed. Coach Don Shea has proved that an
athlete of another sport can produce first class results from
the material at hand. Our hat is doffed to him for the
job he did on the hardwood.
Wallace (Country) Childs, coach of the Bacon County
(Alma) boys team, can probably blame one play in a
semi-final game of the AA State tournament, for his not
reaching a magic circle in state basketball annals — that
nf winning state titles in Class AA, A, B and C basketball.
He has won all the diadems except AA. A Druid Hills
basket in the last second of the game tied his boys and
bhe Druids won in overtime.
Druid Hills boys and Valdosta girls are the new Class
A A champions of the state. The Druids represented our
Sub-Region in the tournament.
W. L. (Young) Stribling is best remembered for his
puglistic career as a contender for the Heavyweight
Championship of the world in the early 1930’5. In high
school (Lanier of Macon) he played on a state champion
ship basketball team (1922).
Atlanta Crackers will assemble in Jacksonville, Sun
day, for the start pf spring training. Manager Buddy Bates
will be on hand to greet the candidates.
And then there was the basketball sub who was study
ing law at a big university. “You know, I should make a good
lawyer, I’ve had plenty of time on the bench.”
Boating Safety Tips
Here are a few dos and don’ts for safe boating compiled
by the Johnson Motors News Bureau:
1. Use the right motor on the right boat. Don’t under
power or overpower.
2. Keep low when you get aboard. Don’t jump or
step on the gunwale. Keep low when you move around
in the boat.
3. Keep your hands free when you get aboard. Don’t
carry things aboard. When you put the motor on the
transom, get in the boat first then lift the motor from
the dock or have someone hand it to you.
4. Don’t overload the boat.
5. Don”t smoke around gasoline.
6. Watch the weather.
7. Look out for stumps, rocks, fishermen, other boats.
8. Lower the anchor, don’t throw it.
9. Stay with the boat if you tip over.
10. Use common sense and don’t be a cowboy.
A Sportsmans Prayer
Oh Lord who looketh down upon us and the frailties
of man with charity and understanding, we thank Thee
for bringing us through another year unto this day, and
for the privilege of being abound on Thy beautiful earth.
Let no ungenerous thought or gluttoning be in our mind
or our hearts. Let no mischance or an accident befall us
on this day that Thou hast given us. Thy servants for
our own pleasure with either gun or rod, and may we
serve Thee with all our hearts and mind as Thou
woulds’t have us to do with our hearts and souls. God.
' Keeper of the Gate in all Your goodness, find a small
space in that Great Beyond for idiots, such as we.
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New Law Permits
Pond Owners To
Sell Game Fish
The General Assembly of Geor
gia recently passed a bill which
permits farm pond owner to le
gally sell game fish provided
they have written permission
from the Game and Fish Com
mission.
Senate Bill No. 156, introduc
ed by Senator Deen of the 46th
District, gives farm pond owners
the right to sell game fish if the
Commission finds that such sale
does not interfere with the pre
servation of wildlife.
Owners who wish to sell fish
must contact the Atlanta Office
of the Commission or a local
Game and Fish Ranger before
the sale is made. If a carrier is
apprehended transporting game
fish he, must surrender a permit
or prove by invoice or written
certification that the fish were
purchased in another state. Both
he pond owner and the carrier
must show that the fish came
from a private farm pond.
Members of the General As
sembly felt that a farm pond
owner who fertilized his pond
properly and managed it accord
ing to the recommendations of
Game and Fish biologists should
be permitted to regain some of
the cost when his pond is drain
ed. They agreed that he should
be entitled to sell his fish in the
same manner he sells his cattle
or hogs.
Passage of the new law does
not affect the rules governing
sale of game fish by other per
sons. ONLY FARM POND OWN
ERS WITH A LICENSE ARE
AUTHORIZED TO SELL GAME
FISH. All other persons will be
punished if caught with game
fish in their possession.
When two newlywed* feather
their nest, it’s usually not hard
to find four well plucked par
ents near by.
“Maybe money can’t make
you happy — but it can make
you more comfortable when
you’re not!” — Anonymoue.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Football Game Proceeds To
Aid Ram Pre-Season Camp
The proceeds from the New
ton County High inter-squad
football game, Friday night,
March 15th, will go to help de
fray the expenses of sending the
1057 squad to a week’s pre-sea
son practice camp.
Coach Milton McLaney has
been working on the venture
»nce his coming to Covington
last September. McLaney point
ed out that most teams in this
section of the state send their
boys to such a camp in August
each year.
Camp activities includes an in
tensified period of training of
Junior High Tournament
Starts at Porterdale Tonight
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whistle ends the action at the
Porterdale gym. Two girls games
will be played Thursday (to
night), and two boys games will
take over on the court Friday
night. Saturday’s games will see
all four teams playing as the
Number 1,2, 3 and 4 clubs will
have to be determined.
Coach Billy Crowell’s girls,
carrying a 7-2 record into the
meet, are well fortified with
three crack forwards and at least
four good guards. Dianne Moore,
a demon at working the ball
down the floor, has already set a
new Porterdale scoring record
this season as she has averaged
an even 15 points per game. Na
dia Shaw, now on the NCHS
team, formerly held the record
with an average of 14.9 points
per contest.
Aiding Miss Moore will be
Coach Crowell’s spot girl Dianne
Smith, and the other reliable ball
handler, Loretta Edge. For his
guards, Crowell has Merry Her
twig, Polly Rogers, Hazel Cris
well and Charlene Hyatt. All are
above average in holding the op
ponents forwards at bay.
Covington Coach L. G. Carney,
who always comes up with at
least one of the champions in the
County meet, has Center Allen
Rowe, the teams’ leading scorer
for tire year. His club’s season re
cord is six wins and three de
feats.
The other two forwards on the
team are Pat Campbell and Billy
Ellis. The guards are picked from
three boys, whom Carney rates
all about equal — Jack Harwell,
Willie McMichael and Bobby
two workouts daily which will
give the coaches more of a com
plete line on all their prospects
for the team. ‘The amount of
money we take in at the game
on March 15th will determine
the number of boys we will be
able to take to the camp in
August,” McLaney emphasized.
Entertainment at the game
will consist of a precision drill
by Mrs. Mary Jay’s Class in
Physical Education. Also the
Newton High Band will furnish
music for the game and the vari
ous acti vites.
McLaney said that the Ram
I Lassiter.
Boys, teams of Palmer-Stone
Livngsten and Porterdale all
have indentical seasonal marks
with 4 wins and 5 losses.
Winner in the tournament last
year were the Covington girls
and the Porterdale boys.
A nominal admission charge of
25c and 50c is assessed at all
games. Officials will be Gibson
Holifield and Carlos Meyer.
Coaches of the teams entered
ere:
Livingston boys, Jim Guritz;
Livingston girls, Byron Paden.
Palmer-Stone, boys and girls,
James Bohannon.
Porterdale, boys and girls, Bil
ly Crowell.
Covington, boys and girls, L. G.
Carney.
Thursday'* tchedule:
7:30 Porterdale vs Palmer-
Stone. (Girls) *
8:30 Livingston vs Covington.
(Girls)
Friday'* schedule:
7:30 Covington vs Livingston
s (Boys)
8:30 Porterdale vs Palmer-
Stone (Boy*)
1 Walton Hatchery
! Furnishes Over
Half-Million Fish
Georgia pond owners have re
ceived over three and a half mil
lion bluegill bream from the
Georgia Game and Fish Com
mission so far this year, Fred J.
Dickson, Chief of the Fish Man
agement Division, announced to-
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State
squad will be divided into two
equal teams and that the action
will afford the spectators a
chance to see for themselves just
what kind of an outfit the Rams
will field in September.
Most followers of the Ram
team are hopeful that an envia
ble record will be compiled in
the 1957 season. Fourteen letter
men are on hand for the team
this year and several boys from
the “B” team will be counted
upon to help the Newton cause.
Game time for the March 15th
tussle will be 8 p.m.
day. The Walton Hatchery near
Rutledge produced 648,175 of
these.
Chief Dickson also said that
the distribution of hatchery
reared bream for the 1956-57
season has ended.
Os the 3,554,171 bluegills taken
from Georgia fish hatcheries,
Bowen’s Mill, near Fitzgerald,
produced 1,572,250. Lake Burton
Hatchery provided 92,163; Rich
mond Hill. 1,163,050; Summer
ville 183,533, and Walton Coun
ty 648,175.
These fish were given pond
owners free of charge under the
Game and Fish Commission’s
farm pond stocking program.
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CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my sincere
thanks to the Covington Fire
Department in responding to a
call lor aid in extinguishing the
fire of a house owned by me in
Porterdale. The service render
ed was excellent and beyond
their call of duty.
Wendell Crowe.
Telephone
Talk
by
JOHN N. BOOTH
Your Telephone Manager
IT S ALMOST planting time. And all over the state weVu
planting a new crop —a crop of telephones. Lait year
alone we “planted” 59,699 new telephones in Georgia,
while spending $43,362,000 for expansion. This year we
expect to add some 77,000 more and spend about
$49,000,000. All these new phones mean convenience and
better living for a lot of folks. And they mean that you can
call more people and more can call you. So your telephone
keeps getting more useful, and that’s the way we want it.
For every time your telephone helps you we sort of feel like
we're helping, too.
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I REMEMBER the time when a traveler needed a pretty
sharp eye to spot a telephone booth when he wanted to
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SPEAKING OF TRAVELING, nothing takes you where
you want to go faster than a telephone call. I’ll bet you
can think of several out-of-town folks you’d like to visit
with right now — maybe a friend who’s been transferred, a
relative you haven't seen in a long time. Why not tele
phone? It s easy to do and you’ll both get a lot of fun out
of it. For faster service, let me suggest you give the oper
ator the out-of-town telephone number if you know it
Then your calls go through twice as fast
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CARD OF THANKS
I would like to express mgr
deepest appreciation to my many
friends for their preayera, vieits,
cards and flowers during my re
cent illness.
May God richly bless each MM
of you.
Mrs. Rachel Grier
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call someone. Now, just
about everywhere you go
you see those brightly
colored, lighted tele
phone booths along the
highways and in other
public places, open 24
hours a day. And it’s no
accident, either. You see,
we spend a lot of time
picking places to put
phone booths where
they’ll be most conven
ient for you. Good to
know, isn’t it, that wher
ever you go you’re never
far from a phone?