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Community News from
Salens
By MBS DOUGLAS YANCEY
Birthday! are in th* news
from Salem this week. Miss
Ruth Lovd'i family celebrated
her birthday with a dinner Sun
day. The following gathered at
ihe Loyd home for the occa
sion. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Loyd
of Porterdale, Mr. and Mrs.
Woodson Binford and Mrs. Ada
Chapman of Newborn. Mrs. J.
F. Burns, Mrs. Lea man Smith
and Miss Irene Smith, Miss
Christine Loyd and the honoree.
Our very best wishes are ex
tended to Miss Loyd for “Many
happy returns” of the day.
Sam Holcomb’s brothers and
sisters surprised him with a
celebration of his birthday Sat
day night when they all liter
ally fell into his living room
unexpectedly singing “Happy
Birthday to You.” The ice cream
and cake was brought by the
members of Mr. Holcomb’s fam
ily in order that even Mi's. Hol
comb would be surprised and
those to enjoy the occasion were ।
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Holcomb
of Newborn, Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Pinkerton of Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Brodnax of Walnut
Grove and Mrs. E. B. Davis of
Porterdale.
Donald Savage Is spending a
few davs furlough with his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Savage. Donald has just com
pleted a course of study at Nor
folk, Va., having gone there
from Camp LeJeune. N. C.,
whore he has been for the past
several months. When he re
turns to camp, he will go to El
Toro, Calif., where he will re
ceive further orders.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bates and
Mr. and Mfs. Douglas Yancey
visited Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Savage on Friday night. The
four spent a pleasant Saturday
evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bell Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Bailey
and Miss Brenda Bailey were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Manson Miller and Mary Alice
on Thursday evening.
Miss Patric ia Hammonds
spent Sunday with Miss Mary
Alice Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ramsey
were the dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron Kemp Sunday.
Sunday afternoon the Ramseys
and Kemps went to Conyers
where they visited Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Hull.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Rob
ertson and two daughters, Rose
mary and Susan, went to Dallas
Sunday to visit Doug’s parents.
Friends of Miss Janet Loyd
will be looking forward to see
ing her on Channel 11-TV Sun
day. February 8 at 5:30 Pm
on the Stars of Tomorrow Show,
Janet is the talented daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Loyd and
she has a host of friends who
are always happy to learn that
she will be on TV or give a
performance of her pantomime
act any place. She is in de
mand for club parties and din
ners locally quite often. Friends
in Salem are watching with in
terest this young lady and pre
dict that she truly will be one
of the Stars of Tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. English
ar? in Fast Point this week visit
in? Roger Derrick and ’heir
grandchildren while Mrs. Der
rick is a patient at Georgia
Baptist Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Yan
cey went to Georgia Baptist
Hospital several times last
week to visit Mrs. Elliott Milli
kin who has been seriously Bl
there for the past ten days.
Mrs. J. F. Bums’ guests Sun
day were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bums of East Point. Mr. and
Mrs. Joel Bums and children of
Decatur, Mrs. L. P. Brightman
and Mrs. Walter Stanton, both
of Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrc. Frne=t T ovd of
Covi^rton caHe-1 on M’ss Ruth
Loyd Sunday afternoon to wish
her many happy returns on her
birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Bailey
and Misses Wanda and Jordye
Bailev were dinner guests at
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By MBS OBtt PABKEB
Mr, and Mi*. Ben Dawkins
and Molly and Mra Emmett
McCart were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCart and
' Bruce of Alpharetta.
Mrs. Charlie Mills and Mr*.
Frank Mom spent Saturday af
ternoon with Mrs. Ernest Dar
by.
Mr. and Mr*. Jessie Ivey of
Porterdale visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Few Ivey and family Sun
day afternoon.
Jimmy Moss spent the week- |
end with Mr. and Mrs. George
Moss at Forest Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Plunkett
and Pam of Atlanta were Sun
day dinner guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Savage and Mr.
and Mrs. Virgil Canup.
An enjoyable day was spent |
Sunday at the home of Will
Johnson when Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Malcolm and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Steadham
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin I
Piper, Archie Johnson, Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Townsend and fam
ily, Chester Johnson of Winder,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom McMillian
and Mrs. Shirley Groover of
Atlanta gathered for the day
together. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Johnson and family visited
with them in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Obie Parker
and Bonnie Johnson spent Sat
urday in Atlanta and were the
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Roberts.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steele
and family of Atlanta attended
the morning worship service at
High Point Baptist Church and
were the dinner guests of the
Ed Stone Family in Covington.
Friends of Herbert Norman
are sorry to know he is in the
hospital and wish for him a
speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dodd
had as their recent supper
guests Mr. and Mrs. W, C.
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Spence Henry
and Elaine were the Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Hudson Henry and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mobley
and son Joe of Decatur spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Nathaniel Mobley.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John
son and family of Decatur
spent Sunday with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl John
son.
Mrs. J. J. Steele was honored
with a birthday dinner Sunday
at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. James Johnson and Mr.
Johnson. We join with the fam-
Jackson Highway Sunday. Later
they visited Mr. and Mrs. Tal
madge Cawthon in their lovely
new birick home in Covington.
Miss Wanda Bailey joined
Mrs. Hazel Malone Friday and
went to Athens where they
were guests at the University
of Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Bailey and
daughters visited Mr. and Mrs.
Bob White in Decatur last
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Slade Ellington
spent Sunday in Macon.
Harry Curtis was home from
Georgia Tech this weekend and
was the dinner guest Saturday
night of Donald Savage and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Savage.
Mrs. A. J. Aylor and children
and Miss Leitha Cowan went to
Decatur Monday where they
visited Mrs. Effie Langley and
Mrs. Ruel Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell and
i daughter visited Mrs. Bell’s
! mother. Mrs. T. E. Lane in De
catur, Saturday night.
Mrs. Charlie Berry joined
। Mrs. Hazel Malone last Wednes
; day afternoon and attended the
|Home Demons tr ati on Club
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Stanton at Brick Store, where
ceramic work was demonstrat
ed in preparation of Salem’s
Home Demonstration Club hav
ing the opportunity to take up
the work of Ceramics.
Quarterly conference was i
held at Salem Methodist Church !
last Wednesday night.
Salem Methodist Church’s I
M.Y.F. members attended New- j
ton-Rockdale Sub-district meet- j
mg at Mansfield Monday night, j
PORTERDALE PERSONALS
Mui Pauline Hardman spent
last weekend in Eastman, Geor
gia with her niece, Mrs. Frank
Stuckey, and family.
Mrs. Bertha Mae Durden re
turned on Saturday, January
131, from Emory University Hos
j pital and is recuperating from
I surgery at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Horace Good
j man.
The Rev. F. S. Anderson. Jr.
was the guest speaker at the
, Family Night Service at the
| ily and extend birthday wishes
to Mrs. Steele.
Mrs. Preston Johnson and
Sammy and Mrs. Lois Norman
visited with Mr. and Mrs. A.
B. Mask Friday afternoon.
Friends of Mrs. Mask regret
to learn of her illness and wish
for her a speedy recovery.
There are still a number on
the sick list in our community
and we send best wishes for a
speedy and complete recovery.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
i Porterdale Presbyterian Church
on Sunday, February 1, at
which time he presented the
Columbia Seminary Develop
ment Program. He was accom
panied by Mrs. Anderson and
their daughters, Patsy, Ellen,
and Sidney.
Miss Alice Curtis spent a part
of this week with Mr. and Mrs.
Theron Curtis near Oxford,
Georgia.
Mrs. Ray Potts was welcom
ed to the Porterdale School in
the absence of Miss Velma
Acree who went to her home
in Toccoa. Georgia because of
illness, last week.
Mrs. Anna Womack is visiting
her daughter,- Mrs. Leila Rut
ledge in East Point, Georgia
while she recovers from a re
cent illness.
Mrs. Dewey Womack under
went an appendectomy at the
Newton County Hospital on
Friday, January 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Day visit-
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COMPANY — YOU PAY ONLY HENSON FURNI-
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PANY does not add ANY INTEREST or CARRYING
CHARGES on Furniture or Appliances purchased from
them? When you agree to pay HENSON FURNITURE
ai COMPANY SIOO for Furniture, you pay only SIOO,
O NOT SIOO PLUS INTEREST, CARRYING CHARGES,
PENALTIES FOR BEING LATE with your payment,
money orders or postage.
There will not be any mixup in your account —
tWk each receipt will show your unpaid balance.
8^ There will not be any question of whether your
payments were sent to a BANK or FINANCE COM
PANY, os HENSON FURNITURE COMPANY DOES
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COMPANY.
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cd Mr. and Mr*. Grover Peek
on Willivee Drive in Decatur,
Georgi* on Sunday, February
1.
Mi. *nd Mrs. T. L Pinkerton
of Atlanta, Georgia were week
end guests of their sister, Mr*.
E B. Davis, and Mr. Davis. On
Saturday evening, they visited
relatives in the Salem Com
munity and on Sunday, they all
went to Newborn, Georgia.
Mr. and Mr*. Joe Davis and
Julie have moved to Thompson
Avenue in Covington for future
residence. Friends in Porterdale
wish for them much happiness.
Mr. and Mr*. T. H. Lynch
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lynch and family, all of At
■ lanta, Georgia visited Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Simmons and fam
ily on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Moon
spent last week in Brunswick,
Georgia, having been called be
cause of the illness of their
daughter, Mrs. Billy Patterson.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Tomlin of
, Snapping Shoals Community
| visited Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sim
। mons and family on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Hayes and
*», W-kl, I. Th. SWI
Americans Are
Not Champion
Telephone Users
Americans have mmt than
half of the telephones in the
world. But they're being out
laixed by people in several
other spots on the globe.
The 1958 edition of the
“World's Telephones,” released
today by the Telephone Com
pany, shows the United States
averaged 460 conversations per
person last year-trailing the
Canadian average of 497 and
the Swedish conversation of
491.
The statistics indicate it's the
inhabitants of the colder cli
mates that make the most use
family with Mrs. D. W. Singley
of Jackson, Georgia visited Mrs.
Sallie Hayes at the home of her
son, Mr. L. C. Hayes, and Mrs.
Hayes, in Barnesville, Georgia
on Sunday.
Mrs. Hazel Wills and two
children, Susan and Gregg, of
Valley Station, Kentucky has
been the guest of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kelley dur
ing the serious illness of her
father. She will return home
this weekend.
lof their telephone geographi
cally, the most talkative tele
phone area in 1957 was Alaska
with an average of 581 con
versations per person. Little
' Iceland also ranked high, aver
aging 452 per person.
I An exception was Hawaii.
The Island territory with the
I travel folder weather reported
! 522 conversation* per person.
No doubt this includes calls by
talkative touri*ls from cold
countries.
The world in general—in
i eluding 7 savages who never ■
even heard of a telephone—
-56 telephone conver* •
i sations per person. This com
pares with 51 for the preceding
vear.
| This survey did not Include
i individual states but available
। statistics indicate that each
Georgian talks more than 54J
times over the phone each year,
or more than the average
. American, according to Harold ;
Rice, Southern Bell Manager.
The Telephone Survey re
cords a total of 117.800,000 tel
ephones in service in the world
on Januarv 1. a gain of close
to 8,000,000 over the previous
year.
The United States, with 63,-
621,000 telephones, led the list
of countries having the largest
systems. Second was the United
kingdom with 7,354,000. Can-
Do you know that when you buy from HENSON
FURNITURE COMPANY YOU ARE DEALING
WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW YOU AND UNDER
STAND YOUR PROBLEMS — who sympathize with
you in sickness and misfortune!
Do you think strangers in NEW YORK, CHI
CAGO or ATLANTA ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR
WELFARE?
Do you know that when you buy from HENSON
FURNITURE COMPANY, chances are the person
who waits on you will be the person you will make
your payments to —a friend that you have known
practically all your life.
WHY TAKE CHANCES? Why pay those strang
ers in NEW YORK, CHICAGO or ATLANTA a lot
of interest, late charges — or carrying charges?
Why not buy from friends you know and who
know you? Call the store collect now — HENSON
will be glad to send a car and bring you to the
store — no cost or obligation.
In case of death of the purchaser, the unpaid
balance will be paid in full by Henson Furniture
Company.
In case of fire, those items that are a complete
loss will be paid for by Henson Furniture Company.
ad* reported 4,815.118, the
German Federal Republic
(West Germany) *- 7 J I 'MS, Ja
pan 3.886.327, and th* U S S R.
3.558.000.
The Russian Telephone Com
pany statistics were the first to
be reported from that country
since 1936.
Members of the Georgia Bale
and A Half Cotton Club for
1958. have shown once again
that Georgia farmer*, by fol
lowing good production and in
sect control practices, can grow
high yields of cotton for good
’ profits.
I The 221 farm* reporting on a
total of 5,102.8 acres of cotton
had an average net profit per
acre of $158.43 from sales of
j both lint and seed. The average
gross return was $339.69 per
acre at an average total cost
of $181.26. The average cost
per pounds of lint was 20.8
cents per pound.
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