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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Governor Vandiver Opposes Further Gas Tax Increase
Two prominent Georgia officials, Gov
ernor Ernest Vandiver and State High
‘way Board Chairman James Gillis, today
spoke out against any increase in the Fed
eral gasoline tax. An increase has been pro
-posed by President Eisenhower.
Governor Vandiver asserted that the
field of gasoline taxation was historically
one “reserved” to the states. “Increasing
the Federal gasoline tax may have the ul
timate effect of ‘pre-empting’ this source
of revenue to the state governments,” he
said.
The “pay-as-you-go” plan, abandoned
by Congress last year on the Interstate
Highway System, was advocated by State
Highway Board Chairman Gillis.
“A Federal increase in gasoline taxes,
to assist the speed up in construction of
the Interstate Highway System, would not
necessarily benefit Georgia highway con
struction,” he said. “The State still must
come up with its prorata share of the con
struction costs. This money normally comes
from state gasoline taxes,” he continued.
Governor Vandiver concluded his state
ment emphatically by saying, “As Gover
nor, I am opposed to any increase in the
Federal gasoline tax.”
- In his statement, Governor Vandiver
mnted out that gasoline taxes long have
n largely “reserved” to the states and
boosting Federal levies may have the ul
timate effect of “pre-empting” this source
of revenue to the states.
_ In line with the Governor’s statement,
Mr. Gillis noted that this proposed tax in
SUADAY SCHOOL
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT
THE END OF THE AGE
Bible Material:
Matthew 25:31-46; Mark
13:1-37.
Devotional Reading:
I Peter 4:12-19.
Memory Selection. Take heed,
watch; for you do not know
when the time will come.
Mark 13:33.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
God’s Final Victory
Background Scripture:
Mark 13:1-37.
It is not too much to say that
the thirteenth chapter of the
Gospel of Mark and the parallel
material in Matthew .24 and
Luke 21 are the most difficult
to understand in the entire New
Testament. In part they speak
of future matters, in part of
conditions of which we in our
present state are unfamiliar.
Several events are described
in this chapter, and accounts of
these events are so scattered
that one has difficulty in know
ing which event is being des
cribed. Verses I through 6, and
14 through 23, quite evidently
describe the fall of Jerusalem.
Verses 9 through 13 tell of the
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crease “would not necessarily benefit Geor
gia highway construction” since the State
still must come up with its prorata share
of the construction costs with money which
“normally comes from state gasoline tax
es.” Mr. Gillis urged a return to the “pay
as-you-go” plan in constructing the Inter
state Highway System.
The Petroleum Association of Georgia
adds another point. While President Eisen
hower may be correct in forecasting a large
deficit in the Highway Trust Fund (the
fund with which interstate highways are
financed), that fund does not represent all
the taxes the Federal government collects
from Georgia motorists.
About $1.5 billion in automotive taxes
out of the $3.6 billion collected last fiscal
year was diverted to the general fund. If
all the revenue expected to be collected
from motorists in coming years was to be
dedicated to road purposes, there would
be no need for additional taxes. And we
contend that the people who use the roads
should pay for them. That’s fair if their
tax money is used for this purpose and not
diverted.
We are afraid that, like so many Federal
projects heralded as magnanimous bene
ficences, the highway program may be
getting out of hand. It is refreshing, indeed,
to hear Georgia’s leaders speak out against
any further gasoline tax. Let Congress take
a closer look at the fund, then return to
pay-as-you-go or stop diverting the motor
ists’ tax.
persecution which Christians
will encounter in the founding
of the church. Verses 7 and 8,
.| and 24 through 37, describe our
Lord’s second coming.
We cannot escape the con
viction that this confusion of
| material is intentional and has
| come about under divine inspir
| ation. This may appear incredi
ble. Why should God the Father
and his Saviour Son want be
lievers to be confronted with
accounts which would confuse
their minds rather than clarify
them?
Dogmatism on these chapters
has split the church with con
troversy through the ages.
We cannot, of course, be cer=
tain that the confusion of ma
terial, which is quite evident,
is intentional and divinely or
dained. It does, indeed, seem in
credible that there should be
any intentionally confused ma
terial in the word of God. But
we must remember that the
tendency of man to seek after
the mysterious and unrevealed
is a marked characteristic of
human nature. Mere curiosity
can sometimes lay hold on
Christian believers and crowd
out of their lives a sense of the
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
importance in righteousness
and personal and social respon
sibility for one’s neighbor.
As the apostles stood look
ing up into the sky after their
Lord’s ascension, “two men
stood by them in white apparel;
which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing
up into heaven? this same Jesus,
which is taken up from you
into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen
him go into heaven” (Acts
1:10-11).
In other words, the heavenly
message to these early church
leaders was to stop grazing up
into heaven and go out and
serve a needy world.
~ The disposition to stand gaz
ing into heaven and to neglect
one’s duties in a needy world
has been a weakness often man
ifested by Christian believers.
If our Lord’s second coming had
been made perfectly plain and
apparent, the Christian church
might conceivably have become
a group of heaven gazers, in
different and unresponsive to
human need round about them.
Confusion there certainly is
in this thirteenth chapter of
Mark and in the corresponding
passages in Matthew and Luke.
Since the word of God is given
under inspiration, it may in
deed be that this confusion is
with divine compliance.
The fall of Jerusalem and its
complete destruction by the sol-
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THY COVINGTON NEWS
Community News From%
High Point
iigh Point
| By MRS ORIE PARKER \
XXX REREHRRER LK TR
? Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mobley
lof Covington spent Sunday af
§ ternoon with Mrs. Lillie Mobley.
% Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lane and ;
{ children, Gail and Darrell Nor- |
iman and Miss Cynthia Steele
| were the Sunday dinner guests
|of Mr, and Mrs. Emmett Mc-|
zCart.
{ Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Calla
diers of Titus did take place
forty years after Jesus uttered
these words.
We cannot escape the fact
that Jesus on certain occasions
prophesied future events. Sev
eral generations ago, Biblical
critics, whose design was to dis
credit the supernatural teach
ings of the New Testament and
present Jesus as simply a great
personality with a helpful ethi
cal message, seized on the fall
of Jerusalem and our Lord’s
words concerning it as proof
that all the Gospels were writ
ten after the year A.D. 70.
Since these critics denied that
Jesus had any supernatural
power, they averred that the
first three Gospels must have
been written after the year 70
and that these prophecies were
words put into the mouth of
Jesus.
We do not have space or time
to go into the argument show
ing the complete falseness of
such an assumption. We can be
sure, however, that Jesus did
utter these words of prediction
and that the dates on which the
first three Gospels were written
are much earlier than formerly
claimed by the Biblical critics.
Note our Lord’s complete dis
regard for the value and per
manence of material things. The
temple was a thing of beauty,
and no doubt Jesus appreciated
| this beauty and loved it, but he
saw the day approaching when,
|because of the sins of the na
| tion, this temple would be level
ed to the ground and the Jew
| ish people scattered to the ends
.|of the earth.
The Jews are a people of
' imarked ability. There can be
|no doubt, however, that their
- rejection of God’s Messiah and
| the attitude of haughty rebel
| lion which they took toward
L1 their Roman overlords resulted
lin the destruction of their na
| tion.
i Peter and James, John and
Andrew asked Jesus privately
'|to explain what he meant by
| his statement about the destruc
| tion of the temple. They want
|led to know when these things
would be and what would be
|the sign “when all these things
| shall be fulfilled.”
|| Jesus warned them against
| being deceived by false leaders
|who would claim to be Mes
| siahs.
| This attempted deceit did
| take place just as Jesus said it
| would. Then and now the un
informed and unorganized
masses are often the viectims of
the mistakes and ambitions of
|evil leaders.
| This passage of Scripture is
not included in the printed text
but needs to be examined if
we are to understand the teach
ings of the chapter as a whole.
The growth of the Christian
church has from the beginning
been accompanied by sacrifice.
|The Romans were tolerant of
all religions save Christianity.
In fact, all other religions fit in
very snugly with the idolatry
and polytheism practiced by
the Romans. But the Christians
claimed that above every earth- |
ly ruler there is a King, one
Jesus, and therefore no Chris
tian would burn incense before
’the statue of the Roman em
peror and acknowledge him to
be divine. This caused the
‘ Christians to be hated and per
| secuted. For more than 250
|years this persecution continu
\led, until under the emperor
{ Constantine, Christianity be
]came the official religion of
| Rome. This, however, was far
| from being a blessing, for then
| the church, which had been per
|secuted and had kept its soul
during those centuries of per
| secution, began persecuting dis
senters.
] This persecution came to its
{ tragic climax in the Inquisition,
lwaged by the Catholic Church
{against Protestantism. How
iever, the Protestants are not
entirely innocent of this evil,
for they at times have perse
cuted also.
The basic teaching for us to
|bear in mind is that Christian
ifaith and sacrifice are insepar
able. It costs something to be
fa Christian. It always has and
| it always will. Persecution in its
| gross forms exists behind the
|iron curtain today, but we are
|all in a measure the victims of
}persecution if we stand fully
| for the moral and spiritual re
| quirements laid down by Jesus
| Christ,
han, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Parker.‘!
Mr. and Mrs., James P. Calla- |
han and children of Washing
ton, Ga., were spend-the-day
guests recently of Rev. and Mrs. |
Paul Callahan and Vanessa, the |
occasion being Vanessa's first
birthday.
An enjoyable day was spent |
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett Parish Sunday when
their children and grandchil
‘dren gathered to honor them on
| their 44th wedding anniversary.
Other enjoying the day with the
Parish family were Rev. and
Mrs. Hudson Moody and chil
dren, Miss Sandra Tuggle and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cardell
and Donald.
Mrs. Few Ivey and children
visited Mrs. Ben Dawkins and
Molly Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Steele,
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Cargile
and Ivy Jane spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Steele and Carol of
Stone Mountain.
Mr. and Mrs. Obie Parker
had as their Sunday dinner
guests Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rob
erts of Atlanta and Bonnie
Johnson. Their afternoon visit
ors were Archie Johnson and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson,
Andy and David.
Mr. and Mrs. George Moss of
Forest Park, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
win Moss and children of Ox
ford, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Moss and family of Covington,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Darby and
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‘with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moss.
\ Mr. and Mrs. James Pinson
and children spent the week
‘end with relatives in Ellijay.
Mr. and Mrs. Spence Henry
and Elaine were the Suri;{,y
‘dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
' Hudson Henry and family,
‘ Friends of J. J. Steele are
',sorry to know that he is on the |
'sick list and wish for him a
| speedy recovery, ‘
Saturday was a gala day with |
the Beginners, Primarys and
Juniors of High Point Sunday
School, when their teachers en
tertained them with a Valen
tine party.
The Intermediate Class No. 1
held their monthly meeting on
Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Obie Parker. After the busi
ness session, games and re
freshments were enjoyed. Mem
bers attending were Brenda
Moon, Molly Dawkins, Marlene
Johnson, Dianne Hamby, Mar
garet Malcolm and Carolyn
Darby.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Moon
and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Hancock visited with relatives
in Milledgeville Sunday.
Perry Johnson spent the
| weekend in Decatur with M.
and Mrs. Thomas Johnson and
family.
| Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dawkins
and Molly and Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett Callahan spent Suno‘
day afternoon in Barnesville
with Rev. and Mrs. Paul Calla
han and Vanessa.
The WMU of the High Point
Baptist Church held its Febru- |
ary meeting at the home of Mrs.
Francis Savage Jr. in Coving
ton on February 3 with eight
members present., Mrs. W. J.
Lane presided and Mrs. Leon
Long presented a very inter
esting program, her subject be
ing Alaska, she told of her trip
‘there, her wedding and living
quarters while she was in
Alaska. During the social hour,
refreshments were served by
‘Mrs. Savage.
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