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Newton High Band Funds Drive Starts On Monday
Director Bill Priest Seeks
Expanded Local Program
The Newton County High School Band is one organiza
tion that all sections of the county can point to with a full
measure of pride.
Persons who have attended
the home football games and
those away from home will at
test to the fact that NCHS has
one of the best marching bands
they have seen all season. Fans
are quick to point ou* that
the only drawback to the band
appearance on the field is the
size of the band. At p esent
there are only 51 members.
Director Bill Priest says that
a school the size of Newton
High (some 800 students)
should have at least an 80-
piece band.
The congenial and hard
working director is doing some
thing about that situation, but,
he needs the help of parents,
students and all persons who
realize the necessity of having
a top-rate musical organiza
tion at Newton High.. Next
week Director Priest is start
irg a Junior High Band. The .
tia’ning afforded the young
sters in the lower grades will
then help stimukit? the inter
est in band wonk needed when
the student enters high school.
The band's work is an 10-
months job inasmuch as most
of the summer is taken up by
the members getting ready for
the early football games. The
band also has a schedule of
events throughout the year
with many conce.’L . parades,
appearances, etc. on tap.
The Newton Band appears
at all half-time shows, weather
Dean Virgil Eady
To Launch Radio
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DEAN EADY
"The World of the Mind,”
a radio series prepared by the
American Council of Learned
Societies and the American As
sociation for the Advancement
of Science, will be presented
over station WGFS by Emory
ai Oxford College beginning
Sunday. October 5, at 2:05 p.m.
Dr. Virgil Y. C. Eady, Dean
and Division Executive of Em
ory at Oxford, will introduce
the series at this time, and
other broadcasts will follow
weekly at the same hour
throughout the year.
Dean Eady’s introductory
talk will be based on material
assembled by Dr. Howard
Mumford Jones, Professor of
English at Harvard University.
The programs are fifteen min
nutes in length Topics to fol
low on subsequent Sundays
w iH be "Human Language,”
■ How Ch Idren Grow.” "Atom
ic Radiation,” "The Dead Sea
Scrolls,” and many other time
ly and interesting topics. Mem
bars of the Emory at Oxford
faculty will present the talks,
all prepared by distinguished
scholars in the fields studied.
This widely-used radio ser
ies which is issued by Broad
cast Music, Inc., through Mr.
Bill Hoffman, owner and man
ager of WGFS, bling the na
tion's top ucholarsh p to local
listeners.
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The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
Band Boosters
Make Plans For
Funds Drive
Officers of the Newton Coun
ty High School Band Boosters
club were to have met last
night (Wednesday) to make
plans for the 1958-59 fund
raising campaign, according to
President Herbert Lott.
The week of October 6_12
has been declared as “Newton
Band Week” throughout the
county and all persons are
asked to contribute to the
drive.
President Lott said that
many citizens of all sections of
the county would be asked to
help raise the necessary money
for the band’s operation for
the ensuing year.
“The value of our band to
the school and the county is
often underestimated,” Mr. Lott
said, “just try to imagine, for
example, a halftime at one of
the home football games on
Sharp Field without our band
to put on a show The band
would most surely be missed
at that time, much less the
other occasions of the year
when they perform for the
public,” he added.
Band Proclamation
WHEREAS, Music is a univer
sal language and is a part
of our lives today, more
than ever before, and
WHEREAS, The Newton Coun
ty High School Band has,
by cooperation, hard work,
and strenuous effort, con
sistently been successful in
all its activities, and
WHEREAS, the entire county
is justly proud of its Band
students, not only from
the standpoint of good music
cianship, but for their dis
play of good discipline and
conduct, wherever and
whenever Newton County
is represented by them,
and
WHEREAS, the Band continues
to bring unlimited pleasure
and pride to each of us:
NOW THEREFORE, I, Nat S.
Turner. Mayor of the City
of Covington, in the State
of Georgia, do hereby pro
claim the week of October
6th through October 12
as NCHS Band Week, and
urge each citizen to join
in honoring the Band in
recognition of its achieve
ments and inestimable con
tributions to our county.
| IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF
I have hereunto signed my
name officially and caused the
Seal of the City of Covington
to be affixed, the first day of
October. 1958.
(Signed) Nat S. Turner
Mayor
permitting, occasional parades,
chapel exercises and at least
three evening concerts. The
concerts are at Christmas, pre-
Festival and spring concert.
The Christmas concert will
feature some special music for
young children, with some
guest appearances. The pre-
Festival of “Pop” concert will
feature the bind's contest music
plus light and popular music
designed for listening enjoy
ment. Tentative plans are to
take the proceeds from this
“Pop” concert and give a
scholarship in music to some
college-bound band member.
The Spring Concert is the
culmination of the years work,
where the band presents a
concert representing all differ
ent typos of music. In addition
to these activities, the band
has been performing on tele
vision at WLW-A in the spring
for the past few years and
have very ably represented
Newton County there.
The band year begins in
earnest early in August. After
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Newton Band Assembled On Homer Sharp Field To Entertain The Football Fans
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THE NEWTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND is shown on
Homer Sharp Field in two formations. In the photo on the left,
the 51 members are assembled for a musical number with the
four majorettes immediately in front. Majorettes are: Sandra
Seabolt, Jo Ann Hill, Peggy Pannell and Bobbie Holifield. Drum
ACP To Offer
Stale Farmers
9.5 Millions
The Agricultural Conserva
tion Program will offer Geor
gia farmers more than $7,500,-
000 in Federal cost-sharing for
performing approved soil and
water conservation practices in
1959, John F. Bradley, state
administrative officer of the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee, an
nounced today.
The 1959 ACF State Hand
book, which contains the pro
visions of the program, eligible
practices, and rates of cost
sharing applicable in Georgia
has now been approved in
Washington, Bradley stated.
The State program was devel
oped within the framework of
the 1959 ACP National program
by the State ASC Committee
and the heads of the other ag
ricultural agencies in the state.
The State Committee is com
posed of James L. Morgan,
Waynesboro, chairman; and
farmer-members J. Paul, Fitts,
Cornelia and Hayward T. Cran
ford, Chauncey. W. A. Sutton,
director of the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, University of
Georgia College of Agriculture,
is ex-officio member.
“The amount authorized for
the 1959 ACP nationally was
$250,000,000, the same amount
as for the 1958 program,” Brad
ley announced. “Georgia’s 1959
allocation as determined by the
Secretary on the basis of con
servation needs is $7,389,000.
This exceeds the 1958 state al
location by $9,000. Adding to
the 1959 allocation the increases
authorized by law to farmers
who earn small payments, the
total ACP aid to Georgia farm
ers in 1959 will be well above
$7,500,000.”
County ASC committees with
the cooperation of other agri
cultural agencies in the county
are adapting the 1959 program
to the individual counties, the
ASC official explained.
Mrs. Era Lee
Funeral Held
At Porterdale
Funeral services for Mrs. Era
Bell Morgan Lee of Porterdale
were held Monday, September
29 at 4 p.m. at the Porterdale
Baptist Church with Rev. Wal
ter P. Perry Jr., officiating, with
interment in Lawnwood Me
morial Park near Covington.
Mrs. Lee, 69, died Saturday,
September 27 in a private hos
pital. She was a member of the
Porterdale Baptist Church and
retired from Bibb Manufactur
ing Company.
Survivors include one son,
Charles T. Lee of Covington.
Serving as pallbearers were
Hugh Edwards, Bill Cagle, Gra
dy Bowden, Grady Robertson,
Howard King and W. T. Pres
ton. '
The NEWS extends deepest
sympathy to the members of the
bereaved family. Caldwell and
Cowan Funeral Home were in
charge of arrangements.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1958
Col. W. J. Dingus
Attends Assessors'
Course at Athens
ATHENS, Ga. — The Geor
gia Asociation of Assessing Of
ficials has awarded a trophy
to the Coffee County Board of
Tax Assessors for “the outstand
ing accomplishment of the year”
in a recent property re-evalua
tion survey.
The citation was presented
during the 11th annual Short
Course in Tax Assessing at the
University of Georgia Sept. 21-
24. About 125 officials attended.
Covington was represented
by Col. W. J. Dingus Jr.
Among the speakers were
Norman Register of Dallas, Tex.
president of the National As
sociation of Assessing Office.s;
Mayor B. F. Merritt of Macon,
president of the Georgia Muni
cipal Association; and Raymond
B. Muse of Carrollton, president
of the Georgia County Commis
sioners. All stressed the impor
tance of the assessor’s work.
Another speaker, a state rev
enue official, urged state parti
cipation in paying, training and
assisting local assessors. He is
C. G. Campbell, director of the
Revenue Department’s Property
Tax Division. He proposed state
help in equalizing evaluations in
various parts of Georgia and
suggested closer cooperation
with the University of Georgia
in training all assessors. In a
panel on public relations, asses
sors agreed that courtesy and
efficient operation are funda
mentals of public service.
GEA Fifth Dist.
Fall Meeting In
Atlanta Oct. 3rd
J. H. House, Superintendent,
Rockdale Co. and GEA Fifth
District Director, announces
plans for the GEA Fifth District
fall Convention, October 3 in
Atlanta. School systems in the
Fifth GEA District include At
lanta and Decatur City, and the
counties off Clayton, DeKalb,
Fulton, Newton and Rockdale.
Members of all college faculties
in the Fifth District are also in
vited.
The General Session of the
Convention will begin at 9:30
a.m. Atlanta Municipal Audi
torium with Mr. House presid
ing. James W. Hudmon, Princi
pal of Rockdale Elementary
School and Fifth District GEA
Vice-President will deliver the
invocation.
President Randall H. Minor
and Secretary Frank M. Hughes
will report on activities and
plans of the Georgia Education
Association. Bela A. Lancaster,
Chairman, GEA Board of Trus
tees will give a final report on
the new GEA Building, 197 Cen
tral Avenue, S. W. Atlanta.
GEA Department of Class
room Teachers will hold their
meeting at 11:00 a.m. at the At
lanta Municipal Auditorium. All
other departments including
High School and Elementary
School Principals, Superinten
dents, Visiting Teachers and In
structional Supervision will con
vene at 11:00 a.m. at the Geor.
gia State College of Business Ad
ministration. Affiliates will hold
their meetings at the Georgia
(State College at 1:30 P.M.
Major of the band is Wayne Doster. In the picture on the right
the band has formed the letters "NC" which stands for Newton
County. A variety of halftime shows has been presented by the
band during the past year and a half under the directorship and
guidance of Bill Priest.
Dr. Ernest Lee Marks His
82nd Birthday At Home Here
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Friday, September 26 was a
significant day for not only
Dr. Ernest Eugene Lee, who
observed his 82nd birthday on
that date, but for Baptists
throughout the denomination.
For Dr. Lee, eminent Baptist
Leader, was the guiding light
in the progress of the “Bap
tist Young People's Union”,
now known as the Baptist
Training Union, for, some forty
years.
An entire page in the Sep
tember 18 issue of The Chris
tian Index, official Baptist
Magazine, was devoted to the
life story of Dr. Lee. We are
taking the liberty of quoting
below therefrom.
E. E. “Hotdog” Lee, who
probably has about as many
“Baptist firsts” to his credit
as any man living today, will
be 82 years old September 26.
The much-beloved Georgian,
known for many years as “Mr.
Training Union” of the South
ern Baptist Convention, will
celebrate his 82nd birthday in
the same quiet, happy manner
in which he has passed his last
seven birthdays — sitting in
front of the big picture window
of his home in Covington
“watching folks”.
“Folks” could well be used
to describe the theme of Mr.
Lee’s life during the more
than 40 years he served South
ern Baptists through the Train
ing Union.
“Hotdog” Lee — he got the
“hotdog” nickname early in
his service as a TU worker
because he could eat so many
hotdogs — was one of six chil
dren of one of Covington's fin
est Baptist families.
‘Every single male ancestor
on my mother’s side, as far
back as we-can accurately trace,
was a Baptist preacher’, he
proudly recalls.
Mr. Lee was reared in Cov
ington and attended Emory at
Oxford College. Following col
lege studies, he worked in the
hardware business in St. Louis,
Mo. for four years, then mov
ed to Texas in the life insur
ance business. He was such a
devout Baptist and so devoted
to the principles of B.Y.P.U.
that ‘I spent as much time
making B.Y.P.U. speeches as
I did selling insurance. Many
times I would work three days,
then spend four days speaking
for the B.Y.P.U.’ he remem
bers. This continued for four
years, with “Hotdog” Lee's
reputation as an enthusiastic
B.Y.P.U. speaker rapidly
spreading all over the South
west.
“The Baptists of Oklahoma
seemed to think a lot of my
B.Y.P.U. “speechifying” ’, he
recalls, ‘but didn’t have any
funds to support a fulltime
B.Y.P.U. worker. So they asked
me to be the States’s unofficial
B.Y.P.U. worker and I accept
ed. “I paid my own salary and
travel expenses by writing in
surance everywhere I went. I
was the first such B.Y.P.U. un
official worker in the SBC.’
Texas Baptists wisely saw
the promise of the B.Y.P.U.
movement and the foresight of
E. E. Lee and voted in 1904 to
ask him to become the first
fulltime B.Y.P.U. state field
worker in the SBC.
‘For two years they talked
with me and for two years I
kept selling insurance and
making B. Y. P. U. speeches.
Finally in 1906, the Lord told
me to quit writing insurance
and I accepted the flattering
offer from the Texas conven
tion.’
In 1908 E. F. Lee became the
SBC's first fulltime B. Y. P. U. [
field worker. There followed i
38 years of unbroken service i
to the B.Y.P.U.’s later to be- I
come Training Unions of the;
Southland.
‘I don’t know how many
miles I travelled as field work
er’, Mr. Lee says, ‘but, it must
have been w’ell over a million.
How many speeches did I
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This Paper Is Covington’s
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
Henson Furniture Founder's Day
Sale Underway Here Today
Henson Furniture Company’s
“Founder’s Day” Sale starts to
day (Thursday) and will con
tinue through Saturday, Octo
ber 11, according to a 4-Page
advertising section of The Cov.
ington News today. Bill McDo
well, vice president of the Hen
son firm is also the manager of
the Henson store in Covington.
The first store of the Henson
chain, which now includes six
stores and serves some 23 count
ties was established in Conyers
by Mr. and Mrs. William A.
Henson in January 1927. Since
then stores have been establish
ed in Greensboro (1933), New
nan (1936), Hogansville (1937),
McDonough (1946), and Cov
ington in 1954.
The sale starting today and ac
cording to Mr. McDowell is one
lof the biggest events ever at
tempted by his firm. “We went
to several Nationally known
manufacturers and asked them
to furnish us with good, up-to
date merchandise priced in
truck load lots, so that we
could offer you, our firends,
some of the best values we have
had in our 32 years in business,”
said Mr. McDowell.
He added, “many of the
items in our 4-page circular
cannot be duplicated at these
prices, so please shop early for
best selections.”
Personnel employed in the
Covington store are as follows:
Bill McDowell, Vice-President
and Manager; Earl Costley, As
sistant Manager; Melvin Allen,
Joe Wilson, Buddy Daniel and
Weldon Carson. Salesmen; Mrs.
Annie Sue Stokes, Mrs. Ruby
Rae Jones, Bookkeepers ; Floyd
Ellis and N, J. Ellis, Delivery
Department.
Miss McLendon
Is Heart Attack
Victim Friday
Miss Ella McLendon of Co
lumbus died Friday night, Sept
ember 26, from a heart attack at
her home. Funeral services were
held in Columbus Sunday after
noon.
Miss McLendon, a resident of
Covington for approximately 36
years, was a faithful member of
the local Presbyterian Church
where each week she placed the
flowers in the auditorium for
the Sunday church services.
She moved to Covington from
Talladega, Alabama after the
death of her parents and made
her home here with her brother
and sister-in-law, Dr. and Mrs.
S. D. Haynie.
Dr. Haynie, a veterinary doc
tor, died a number of years ago
while practicing in Covington.
After his death Mrs. Haynie and
Miss McLendon moved to Co
lumbus where they had made
their home together until the
death of Miss McLendon last
week.
A large number of former ■
friends of the family here ex- |
tend to them deepest sympathy I
in their sorrow.
On Sept. 13, 1847, U. S. Ma
rines stormed through the
“Halls of Montezuma” on their
■way to Mexico City.
Ch<
But ye, brethren, be not
weary in well doing.—(Thes
salonians 3, 13.)
Why are so many of us these. .
days addicted to pills to makel
us sleep, to give us needed
energy, to allay our nervous- I
ness and tension? Let ua try
stopping at least once a day,
in the headlong rush, to heip
someone in need, unselfishly td
lighten another’s load— and in
well doing, find peace, --<? t
NUMBER 39
bill McDowell
Women's Cl. 4th
District Meeting
Here Wednesday
The Fourth District Meeting
of the Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs will be held at
the First Baotist Church in
Covington, Wednesday, October
8. Registration will start at 10
a.m. The Meeting will begin at
10:30 a.m. with Mrs. N. J. Den
ton of Jonesboro, District Presi
dent, presiding.
The Covington Woman's Club.
Mrs. L.A. Patrick, president and
the Covington Service Guild,
Mrs. Frank Stone, president,
will be hostesses for the meet
ing. Other officers of the Fourth
District include: Mrs. Frank
Henn, Manchester, first vice
president; Mrs. S. M. Hay, Cov
ington, second vice-president;
Mrs. Luther Turner, West Point,
। third vice-president; Mrs. Doyle
Tatum, Griffin recording sec
retary and Mrs. C. H. Doe, Gris
. fin, treasurer.
State officers of the Georgia
Federation will be the program
speakers will include Mrs. E.
L. Barnes, Statesboro, State
President; Mrs. S. L. Taylor,
Manchester, first vice-president
and Mrs. E. O. Cabiness, Max
eys, second vice-president.
Luncheon will be served In
the Educational Building of the
church.
Handicapped
Worker Record
Tops-Huief
“Physically handicapped
workers have gained the year
round spotlight,” Commission
er of Labor Ben T. Huiet said
। here this week in pointing out
that National Employ the Han
dicapped Week will be observ
ed October 5-11.
“Georgia’s job-fit handicap
ped workers have shown their
employers that a physical han
dicap is not a job handicap.
These workers make better pro
duction and have less sickness
and absenteeism that the able
bodied. The disabled worker
has a better attitude, is more
cooperative and is less prone to
quit without good cause,” Huiet
continued.
“This outstanding record is
set by handicapped workers be
cause they have the ability to
do the job. We in the Georgia
Department of Labor feel that
an even more extensive and ef
fective use can be made of han
dicapped people if all employ
ers would look at their abili
ties to work, not their disabili
ties.”
Huiet stated that during th
past 12 months, 3,178 jobs were
filled with handicapped appli
cants through the Department's
34 Employment Service offices.
“These offices work at solv
ing the employment problem
of Georgia workers, including
handicapped ones, on a 12-
month basis.