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A little ray of sunshine is
beginning to creep through the
blinds in my bedroom . . . and
your Office Boy is once more
able to sit up and take nourish
ment . . . even eat at times
... as we begin to shake off
the virus which has had the
best of us for the past ten
days . . . dis we say shake
off? . . . well, as far as we are
concerned we would like to
shake it forever from our bones
and body . . . we have missed
so many homecomings this
year that we really wish we
could start all over again, now
that we are feeling better . . .
the homecoming at Sardis last
Sunday was on we regretted
very much being unable to at
tend . . . but . . . they did not
forget us for Mrs. Albert
Strickland asked the ladies to
prepare a basket and sent to
us ... so Mrs. Fuller gave it
to the Boss and, for a wonder,
he brought it home and I dined
sumptously on fried chicken,
and all the delicious trimmings,
as well as cakes of several dif
ferent kinds . . . yum . . .yum
. . . thank you Sardis folks
. . . it was delicious . . and
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Ga. Garden Club
Dedicates New
Headquarters
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MRS. NAT TURNER
Dedication of the State
Headquarters Garden Club of
Georgia will be held Monday
afternoon at 5 p.m. in the
F&unders Memorial Garden in
Athens which will be preceded
by a tour of Athens and fol
lowed by a tea in the Garden.
Any Garden Club members
from surrounding Clubs are
invited to attend.
Mrs. Nat S. Turner Presi
dent of the Garden Club of
Georgia will preside.
Dr. O. C. Aderhold, Presi
dent of the University of Geor
gia, and Mrs. Daniel J. Mooney
of Dutt, Montana, President of
the National Council of State
Garden Clubs, will be on the
program.
Elks Present Check To Safety Council
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PICTURED ABOVE is Otis Spillers. Exalied Ruler Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks Lodge Number 1806, Covington,
presenting a SIOO.OO check io Mrs. William E. Wolfe, overall chair
man of the Newton County Safety Council Membership Fvnd drive.
In accepting ihe gift Mrs. Wolfe expressed sincere appreciation to
the Elks Club as well as to her committee members for their
interest and confidence in the campaign which is now underway.
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
Iwot 1958
Better Newspaper
wEs*Sj^ Contests
VOLUME 94
VAr .ER AND BYRD SWEEP STATE ELECTION
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Nt con High Student Council Officers Elected
Lin Dearing Is President;
Plans Made For Year
Under the leadership of
Lucy Morcock, vice-president,
ton County High School began
astic meeting on September 8.
Bledsoe, secretary; Hannah
Rogers, reporter and Donald ■
House, devotional chairman.
Among the new projects the
council will undertake in the
immediate future are the orga
nization of a Pep Club and a
chapel choir. The Council will
continue to sponsor Sock Hops
in the gym after each home
football game and at this meet
ing plans were made for the
first Sock Hop on the night of
September 12.
The annual Freshman-Soph
omore Dance will be held on
September 20, from 8:30 to
11:30 p.m. The music will be
furnished by the “Silvertones”.
A King from the Sophomore
Class and a Queen from the
Freshman Class will be crown
ed.
The Student Council has the 1
following home room represen
tatives:
12-A. Joe Budd and Linda
Bledsoe.
12-B. Donald House and
Shirley Ruth Hayes.
12-C. Pam Laster and Han
nah Reynolds.
12-D. Henry Rogers and Di
ane Wright.
11-A. Brenda Brooks.
11-B. Kathy Ellington.
11-C. Sandra Harwell.
11-D. Anita Millwood. p
11-E. Sara M. Patterson.
11-F. Jerry Standard.
10-A. Melvin Capes.
10-B. Sonny Gwin.
10-C. Bobby Lassiter. 1
10-D. Diane Moore.
10-E. Bubber Pratt.
10-F. Janelle Wood. <
9-A. Michael Budd.
9-B. Bede Campbell. <
9-C. Herby Duke. .
9-E. Sally King. (
9-F. Randall Meadows. ]
9-G. Gail Robinson. <
9-H. Dorothy Wander. ]
Mrs. L. M. Burke serves as J
adviser. ]
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Presbyterian i
Picnic Wednesday i
Presbyterian f amily Night
will be observed at Lions Club (
Pavilion at Academy Springs
Park next Wednesday, Sept. 17.
at 6 p.m. All members and
friends are invited to attend
and bring a basket lunch. This
occasion is in connection with
Rally Day month and fall
church and Sunday School Ral
ly Day celebration.
Enterprise, Established in — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
Lin Dearing, president, and
the Student Council of New
-1 it new year with an enthusi
. Officers elected were: Linda
Reynold, treasurer; Henry
6-Pages Local
Football In
NEWS Today
Six pages of The Covington
NEWS today are devoted to
coverage of the Newton Coun
ty Rams football team and the
first home game of the 1958
season on Sharp Field Friday
night.
County merchants and friends
of the school, and the football
team, are offering their salute
and best wishes to the team
through advertisments in the
paper today.
The Covington NEWS is again
making plans to bring to its
readers a complete and com
prehensive coverage of the
Rams games this fall. The first
game’s report is in the paper
today on the Sports Page.
The following progressive
business firms of Newton
County have advertisements in
this issue of The Covington
News wishing the 1958 Rams a
successful season:
Covington Auto Service,
Standard Pharmacy, Batche
lor’s Standard Service Station,
Robert Bush Welding & Ma
chine Works, Pratt-Dudley
Building Supply, Haymores
Quality Market, Western Auto
Associate Store, Atlantic Ice &
Coal Co.. Meadors Freight
Lines, Digby-Skinner Motor
Co., Anderson Tractor Co.,
Freeman’s Tire & Recapping
Service, Liberty Finance Co.,
Bledsoe Hardware, Chapman’s
Case, Piper Hardware Com
pany.
Henson Furniture Co., Cov
ington Mills, Inc., Hobbyland,
Steele Insurance Agency,
(Continued on page 17)
Baptist W.M.U.
Officers Named
For Coming Year
Officers elected for the Wo
man’s Missionary Union of the
First Baptist Church for the
year 1958-59 are as follows:
president, Mrs. Edgar A. Cal
laway: Enlistment vice presi
dent, Mrs. J. L. Bush; program
vice-president, Mrs. T. W.
Heard; recording secretary,
Miss Naomi Gene Ketchem;
corresponding secretary, Mrs.
J. E. Hutchins; treasurer, Mrs.
J. E. Hutchins: circle chairman,
Mrs. W. E. Thornley and Mrs.
J. A. Walls; Mission study
chairman, Miss Marie Alexan
der.
Prayer chairman, Mrs. Fred
Ketchem; stewardship chair
man, Mrs. Nat Turner; com
munity missions chairman, Mrs.
J. W. Alexander: publications
chairman, Mrs. R. H. Nash;
Publicity chairman. Miss Na
omi Gene Ketchem; pianist,
Mrs. James Birdsong; song lead
er. Mrs. Hugh McDonald.
Young Women’s Auxiliary,
director. Mrs. T. D. Meadors;
Junior Royal Ambassadors di
rector, Mrs. Don Wood; Be
ginners Sunbeam leader, Mrs.
Harold Rice; Primary Sunbeam
leader, Mrs. Wallace Scar
borough; Junior Girl’s Auxili
ary director, Mrs. A. D. Bar
nett assisted by Mrs. Roy
Steadham and Intermediate
Girl’s Auxiliary director, Mrs.
Charlotte Adams.
Or Gnntngtrrn
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1958
Ernest Vandiver Elected Governor, Garland Byrd Lt Governor
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Local Legion Auxiliary Unit
Appoints Committee Heads
The first American Legion
Auxiliary meeting of the year
was held on Monday night,
September Bth„ at the Ameri
can Legion Home.
Miss Christine Ellis, Unit
President, opened the meeting
in regular form. Pledge to the
Flag and Preamble to the Con
stitution were repeated in uni
son. Mrs. Grady Walton, Unit
Champlain led in prayer.
Miss Ellis, presiding over
the meeting, first presented
Mrs. Fred . Lott, Girls State
Chairman for 1957-1958, who
introduced the girls who rep
resented Unit No. 32 at the
Girls State in Macon this year.
They were, Misses Linda Pat
rick, Sandra Cowan, Rachel
Capes, Hilda Biggers and Lin
da Bates. Miss Jan Sears was
unable to attend. The girls
gave a very interesting pro
gram consisting of their activ
ities at the 1958 Girls State.
After the conclusion of the
program, Miss Ellis had the
minutes read, correspondence
and roll call of officers.
The main topics for the
meeting were Membership and
the Fair. Mrs. Sue Sims urged
all members to pay their dues
and for each member to ask
someone else to join this wor
thy organization. Miss Ellis ap
pointed several fair committees
in making plans for the annual
concession stand which is oper
ated each year by the Auxili
ary.
Miss Ellis made the follow
ing appointments for the 1958-
1959 Auxiliary year:
Rehabilitation Chairman —
Mrs. Fred Lott.
Membership Chairman —
Mrs. Sue Sims.
Education and Scholarship
—Mrs. Sarah Chesnut.
To Report Fires
-Dial 2755
Seconds count in firefight
ing-
Delayed calls to the Fire De
partment help little fires to
be big ones.
Fire Chief R. T. Floyd ur
ges everyone to post the tele
phone number of the Coving
ton Fire Department — num
ber 2755 - near the telephone.
He added. “If you report fires
immediately, you may avoid
serions loss. We will do our
best, but we cannot fight a
fire that has not been re- |
ported.”
When fire is discovered,
call the Fire Department.
They are professional fire
fighters, with proper weapons
to kill the blaze.
Poppy — Mrs. Mildred Bo
hannon.
Child Welfare — Mrs. Luke
Hill.
Civil Defense — Mrs. Lois
Tolbert
Legislature and National Se
curity — Mrs. Brooks Greer.
Parlimentarian — Mrs. Vol
ley Parr.
Americanism Chairman —
Mrs. Victor Johnson.
Publicity Chairman — Mrs.
Dorothy Cason.
Community Service Chair
man — Miss Katherine House.
Girls State Chairman — Mrs.
Dan Clower.
Memorial Chairman — Mrs.
R. H. Patterson.
Yearbook Chairman — Mrs.
Sam Hay.
Scrapbook Chairman — Mrs.
Jack Chapman.
Pan American — Mrs. Claire
Ellis.
Cheer Chairman — Mrs.
Vivian McDaniels.
Calling Chairman — Mrs.
Oma Parnell.
After conclusion of the busi
ness part of the meeting, Mrs.
Jack Chapman and Mrs. Sam
Hay led in the singing of the
hymn for the month “Church
in the Valley of the Wildwood”
Girls Auxiliary Coronation Ceremony At Calvary Baptist Church
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Shown in ihe picture above are participants in ihe Coronation
candlelight service given Sunday night by the Girli Auxiliary
of Calvary Baptist Church. First row, left to right: Lou Ann
Bellew, Arenda Piper and Beverly George. Second row, left to
right: Mrs. O. C. McDougald; Toni Bellew, Mary Beth Hill, Rol-
and Til We Meet Again. With
September designated as Music
month, Mrs. Sam Hay gave a
reading on Music.
Unofficial Election Returns Os Newton County
CANDIDATES 3 £ £ | g $ £
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VANDIVER 117 65 16 59 58 18 74 69 91 325 65 98 918 152 38 72 2230
BODENHAMER 9 9 3 8 3 2 11 17 27 4 17 71 10 7 17 206
ABERNATHY 6 3 1 8 4 0 32 13 6 81 4 17 78 8115 13 279
BROOME 22 8 2 6 5 17 5 3 4 13 70 14 2 12 181
R Y RD 98 53 16 53 48 75 61 81 51 102~791~121 47~71 1547
HAWKINS 2 1 0 8 4 14 4 7 5 3 1021 0 2 152
ODOM 4 8 71 2 4 ~2 6 F^l °~° 80
SMITH 1 5 0 3 0 8 4 3 3 4 46 1 6 84
HAMILTON Hl 56 82 55 69 50 95 835 42 1479
SWINT 8 15 28 21 30 17 28 182 7 335
BUICE 13 8 4 8 6 16 9 10 5 17 120 8 11 571
18 6 17 27 32 38 25 169 27 31 372 31 33 ‘BB6
EDWARDS 35 42 10 42 23 41 27 57 160 29 61~403 4~45 979
ELLIOTT 12 8 0 6 6 29 4 7 0 7 20 137 8I 8 252
REDWINE 41 29 23 21 29 40 47 31 72 370 31 734
WIGGINS 83 39 48 37 84 33 51 34 48 685 18 1160
Vandiver, Byrd, Hamilton,
Wiggins Poll Big Vole Here
Dr. Sufties To
Speak At The
Kiwanis Meeting
Dr. William S. Suttles, Dean
of Students at the Georgia State
School of Business Administra
tion, Atlanta will be the main
speaker at the Covington Ki
wanis Club luncheon meeting
today (Thursday) at the Amer
ican Legion home at 1 o’clock.
The program today has been
arranged by Kiwanian Robert
O. Arnold. Mr. Arnold will in
troduce the speaker.
• * • •
Main speaker for the pro
gram of the club Thursday at
Legion Home was W. E. Paf
ford, State School supervisor
and Director of Field Services
pf the Department of Educa
tion.
Mr. Pafford, a former college
classmate of President Bill
Dickey at Emory.At-Oxford,
gave a most interesting and ed
ucational first-hand report of
problems confronting the Geor
gia high school educational sys-
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lene Butler, Sarah Brown, Frankie Day, Lind^r^le^n^!rt.
Neal Sammons. Third row, L. io R.: Mrs. H. B. Nibleii, Bettv
Ann Head, Nancy Head, Jean Smith, Rosemary Smith, Mrs. L M
Brown and Mrs. Ralph Batchelor. ”*
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
Election of S. Ernest Vandiver
and Garland T. Byrd as Gover
nor and Lt.-Governor of Georgia
was a foregone conclusion last
night as early as 9 o’clock when
the returns started pouring into
the candidates headquarters in
Atlanta.
Later in the evening each
candidate expressed his con
fidence that victory would en
gulf just about every county
m the state. Vandiver’s head
quarters were optimistic to the
point that they were sure their
candidate would carry all the
counties in the state.
Mr. Byrd, whose opponents
included four other young men,
was equally optimistic relative
to a landslide victory in the
1958 Democratic Primary.
Both Vandiver and Byrd piled
up commanding majorities in
Newton County as 16 of the 18
voting precincts reported their
tabulation by 9:30 P. M.
Vandiver’s vote in Newton
was a resounding 2.235 ballots
and is by far the most one-sided
governor race ever held in the
county in recent years. His op
ponents, Lee Roy Abernathy
polled only 279 votes and the
third candidate in the election
did not top the 200-mark. Wil
liam Bodenhamer tabulated
196 votes in the 16 precincts.
Byrd’s total was 1,668 to his
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