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Founders Day Program Held
At Porterdale School, Thurs.
PORTERDALE — Founders
Day was observed at the Por
terdale Junior High School
P. T. A. on Thursday evening,
February 19, at the school cafe
teria at seven o’clock. This
meeting honored the original
founders of the National Con
gress of Parents and Teachers
and all former presidents and
leaders in this particular school.
Mr. A. W. Dalton, President,
welcomed each member and
guest. Minutes of the previous
meeting were read by Mrs. E.
L. Digby in the absence of the
secretary, who was ill. Mrs.
Digby gave the treasurer’s re
port.
The Nominating Committee
to consist of Mrs. Ruth Jaynes,
Mrs. Betty Strawn, and Mrs.
Mildred Walden was reminded
to bring nominations for next
year's officers to the April
meeting. No March meeting will
be held due to the Spring holi
days to be observed in the
school that week.
During the business session,
Mrs. Ruth Jaynes made a mo
tion that the P. T. A. buy song
books for the school to use at
chapel periods. The group vot
ed to buy 125 of these books.
When the grade count was
made, Mrs. Scarborough’s First
Grade and Miss Trippe’s Fifth
Grade had most votes and re
ceived the gift awards.
Mr. J. T. Elkins was wearing
the unique hatchet with cher
ries of the George Washington
legend on its handle and receiv
ed the attendance award which
Mrs. Bill Gregg supplied. Each
person received a hatchet on
his or her lapel on arriving.
Mr. Brice Allen read a devo
tional message from the Gospel
of Matthew and led the group
in prayer.
Miss Mae Hardman present
ed a Founders Day Program
with the assistance of former
PresidentsTmd’ Wa'affTToiVef
Presidents present were: Mr.
E. A. King, Mrs. Ruth Jaynes,
Mrs. Annie Day, Mr. D. O.
Shirah, Mrs. J. T. Elkins, and
Mr. A. G. Grove. The late Mr.
Andrew Burch was represented
by his sister, Mrs. Virgil Nor
wood, and the late Mr. R. J.
Cason by Mrs. Cason and Vice-
President James E. Cason. The
three principals, namely, Miss
Ethel Belcher, Miss Maud King,
and Miss Jordye Tanner, were
also recognized and offered ap
preciation for their leadership.
Following the program, the
Founders Day offering was tak
en to assist in furthering the
work of this organization for
the development of children.
Miss Tanner proposed that a
copy of the program be for
warded to the Georgia Parent
Teacher Bulletin and be car
ried in the Bibb Recorder. This
proposition was approved.
The formal meeting was clos
ed with prayer led by Mr. E. A.
King.
The Hospitality Committee
consisting of Mrs. Ed Hertwig,
Mrs. R. C. Thompson, and Mrs.
James A. Jeffries had prepared
delicious refreshments for the
group. They were assisted in
serving by Mrs. James R?ga«-
and Mrs. W. H. Walden.
Rev. Chidsey Is
E A 0 Speaker
The Reverend J. Walker
Chidsey, District Superinten
dent of the Decatur-Oxford
District of the Methodist
Church, will be the speaker in
the Emory - at-Oxford chapel
assembly on Monday, March 2,
at 10 a.m„ in the Allen Memo
rial Auditorium.
The public is invited to hear
him speak.
Ministerial Association
Meets Monday at Ist
Presbyterion Church
The Newton County Mini
sterial Association will hold
their monthly meeting at the
First Presbyterian Church of
Covington on Monday, March
2, starting at 11 a.m. Rev. W.
P. Perry Jr., pastor of the Por
terdale Baptist Church will be
in charge of the program.
For safety’s sake keep all
rugs secure and free from loose
edges, advises Miss Lucile Hig
ginbotham, health education
specialist, Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
The Covington Enterprise, Established in J 864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
Mrs. Ora Moles
Dies While On
A Visit Here
Mrs. Ora Dodd Motes, 81, of
Jefferson, Georgia and Green
wood, South Carolina died in
her sleep February 23, while
visiting relatives, M^s. R. G.
Motes on Gardner Street, here
in Covington.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at Oconee
Baptist Church in Jeffenson
with Rev. Clay Campbell offi
ciating and interment in Oconee
Cemetery with Caldwell and
Cowan Funeral Home in charge.
She is survived by three sons
Thomas Wesley Motes, Porter
dale; Roy Jerrman Motes, Jef
ferson; Jessie Clyde Motes, Ox
ford; two daughters, Mrs. Cora
Lee, Athens; Mrs. Pauline Cot
ton, Dallas, North Carolina and
one sister Mrs. Bertha Patrick,
Greenwood, South Carolina.
The NEWS joins the friends
of the family here in extending
deepest sympathy to them in
their sorrow.
National 4-H
Week Sei For
Feb. 28- Mar. 1
Newton County’s 551 4-Hers
■wuX. jwn. other 4-H’ers- every -
where in observance of Nation
al 4-H Club week from Feb
ruary 28 to March 7. There are
about 2,201,500 youth between
10 and 21 years of age, who
belong to nearly 90.700 local
4-H Clubs throughout the Unit
ed States. These young people
pledge their heads to clearer
thinking, their hearts to great
er loyalty, their hands to larg
er service, and their health to
better living for club, com
munity. and country. During
the past year, members com
pleted more than 3.631,000
“learn by doing” projects in
farming, homemaking, com
munity service, and other ac
tivities in the rural, urban, and
suburban localities where they
live.
Aims of National 4-H Club
Week in 1959 are:
To honor outstanding 4-H
“alumni” among the 20 million
men and women of America
who have part ; cipated in the
program since it started in the
early 1900’s.
To recognize, and encourage
seeking the values and benefits
gained by these former club
members through 4-H experi
ence and learning opportuni
tics.
To give 4-H members a
chance to evaluate past achieve
ments and plan future activi
ties on their forms, in their
homes, and in their rural or
urban communities.
To explain and show the 4-H
Club program to other young
people who may wish to en
roll.
To stimulate more youth
minded, public-spirited, citi
zens to volunteer for service
as local club leaders.
How the week will be ob
served:
Newton Countian
Receives Honor
Donald Wayne Rogers, of Mc-
Donough Road in Covington,
recently received an honor at
Austin Peay State College in
Clarksville, Tennessee. He was
selected one of the four attend
ants to the King and Queen of
Hearts who reigned at the col
lege’s Valentine Dance held
February 14.
Don, a veteran, is a junior
with a major in physical educa
tion and a minor in psychology,
Hobbies are golf, football, and
boating. His picture will be
placed in the honor section of
•the college’s yearbook.
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picture above with the director Leon Jacques Villard. The glee
club will appear at the Allen Memorial Auditorium on the Emory-
Oxford World Affairs Evening
Session Summarized Program
(Continued from Last Week)
Editor’s Note — The Even
ing Session of the Oxford
World Affairs Institute is re
capped in the article below.
Mrs. Leo Mallard is author of
the two interesting articles
relative to the 1959 Institute).
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Dr. A. V. Berger-Voesendorf,
Professor, Georgia State Col
lege, concluded the Institute’s
program with a discussion of
“Summary of the Problems of
Eastern Europe”.
Dr. Berge r-Voesendorf of
Vienna, former Austrian Em
bassy Attache in Brazil, Aus
trian Business Consultant in
Eastern Europe, and professor
at Oxford, Bagota, and Farouk
Universities, now an American
citizen, assured his audience
that he represented no diplo
matic service, party or coun
try, and was at liberty to pre
sent facts as he saw them.
He came straight to the point
by stating that Russia was wag
ing a war to win it, and that if
it meant a “Brink of War” pol
icy for the West as the only
possibility of maintaining peace,
then a 90 pct. military budget
would not be too much.
Europe emerged from World
War I in 1918 with no major
power. The German-Russian
“Axis” which had been obsolete
was re-awakened in 1939 by
the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Germany
from 1935 onward conquered,
first diplomatically and then
militarily, the constitutent parts
of Eastern Europe with ex
ception of Turkey.
Reviewing the post World
War II era, the speaker pointed
out that Western powers vir
tually conceded Eastern Europe
to Russia in allowing them a
free hand in sovietizing East
ern-Central Europe into a
“people’s democracy” as they
chose to call it. This conces
sion on America’s part, accord
ing to Mr. Winniewicz, Polish
diplomat, quoted as saying in
1945 by Dr. Berger, “Roosevelt
has to keep the Russians happy
to prevent their switching again
to a separate agreement with
Germany. But he will defend
democracy in Eastern Europe,
after three things have been
reached: Break down of Germ
any; surrender of Japan; and
development of the “secret
weapon”.
Under the impression that
they would have Western aid if
they proved their will to be
free, Hungary in 1956 made a
brave effort to drive out the
communists; Poland also took
modest action in a cabinet
change. No one came to their
aid. They no longer sacrifice
their lives in a hope for free
dom — now they sacrifice only
to gain a few economic and so
cial concessions.
Following World War II the
Soviets planned to conquer the
world, but were deterred in
their plans by the U. S.’s de
velopment of nuclear weapons.
However, according to the
speaker, Russia has not lost
sight of her goal, and is now
playing a chess game, in which
certain pawns are expendable
in order to win more in the
end. Her present strategy is the
outlawing of use of atomic
power; as soon as the pact is
made, then she will wage war
depending upon quantitive and
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1959
numerical superiority, but be
fore bowing to defeat would re
sort to atomic force.
The U. S. must be stronger
than the Soviet in all weapons
to insure peace. According to
the speaker, Khrushchev says
that “Coexistence is a period in
which Socialism shall conquer
the world”, not using weapons,
but economic and political
means”. We should remember
he warned, that Hitler came
into power through constitu
tional means — we must not let
them out-propaganda us with
talk of “Coexistence”.
Infant Floyd
Interred Wed.
Funeral services for infant
Harold Edwin Floyd, day old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Floyd of Covington, were held
Wednesday, February 25 alt
2:30 at the Church of The Lord
Jesus Christ, Porterdale, with
Bishop J. T. Payne, officiating.
Interment was in Lawnwood
Cemetery near Covington.
Survivors, in addition to his
parents include: one brother,
Billy Wayne Floyd; grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Payne
and Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Floyd,
all of Covington.
The NEWS extends deepest
sympathy to the members of
the bereaved family. J. C. Har
well and Son Funeral Home
were in charge of arrange
ments.
A. Henderson
Panelist At
Press Institute
Arthur Henderson, Covington
News Auditor and Office Man
ager was a guest panelist at the
31st Georgia Press Institute
which was held in Athens Wed
nesday through Saturday of last
week,
Mr. Henderson, who has been
affiliated with the News for
the past seven years, partici
pated in the Thursday afternoon
Panel for Personnel of Weekly
Newspapers, with Joseph Terry
of Chicago as speaker, and Mrs.
E. A. Wilbanks of the Buford
Advertiser, and Les Witte, Bul
loch Times Statesboro serving
as fellow panelists.
Institute Chairman Frank
Hash of the McDuffie Progress, '
Tnomson, with the cooperation I
of his committee; GPA Presi-1
dent M. A. Perry, Metropolitan
Herald, Atlanta, GPA Secre
tary-Manager Harvey Walters,
Atlanta, Dean John Drewry,
University of Georgia Henry
Grady School of Journalism,
and The Atlanta Journal, At
lanta Constitution, Augusta
Chronicle and Herald, Macon
Telegraph and News, and
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, se
cured leading figures in the
field of journalism for the in
teresting programs.
At-Oxford Campus Friday morning at 11 o'clock in concert with
featured artist Walter Steinhauts, cellist. The concert is free and
the public is cordially invited.
Missionary Film
Showing Sunday
At P'dale Presby.
PORTERDALE — A mission
ary film entitled “Profile of the
Middle East” will be shown at
the Porterdale Presbyterian
Church on Sunday evening,
March 1, at the seven o’clock
worship service. This is one of
the ways the church is observ
ing the Week of Prayer and
Self-Denial for World Missions,
which is commemorated in each
church throughout the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S.
Everyone is cordially invited
to share with this congregation
for this splendid, informative
presentation.
Graveside Rites
Held Saturday
For Kathy Dodd
Graveside services for Kathy
Lynn Dodd, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Dodd of
Porterdale were held Saturday,
February 21, at Liberty Ceme
tery in Porterdale with Rev. H.
H. Dillard officiating.
Surviving are her parents
George and Bernice Elders
Dodd, two brothers Jerry Dodd,
Ronnie Dodd and two grand
mothers Mrs. Mamie Elders and
Mrs. Lillie Hammonds all of
Porterdale.
Caldwell and Cowan Funeral
Home were in charge of ar
rangements.
The NEWS joins the many
friends in extending deepest
sympathy to the members of
the bereaved family in their
sorrow.
Hi YClub Hears
Prof. E. Brown
The February meeting of the
Newton County High School
Hi-Y Club was held on Feb
ruary 11. The meeting was call
ed to order by president, Nolan
Nesbit. Alton Freeman pre
sented a devotional on “The
Advantages of Clean Speech”.
Business was then discussed
and the various committees re
ported that all was working
smoothly. It was then announced
by Nolan Nesbit that the school
project for this month is a
courtesy campaign which will |
be climaxed by the selection of.
the most courteous boy and
girl by the faculty.
Next the meeting was turned
over to Monty Willson who in
troduced our speaker, Mr. E.
J. Brown of Oxford. Mr. Brown
selected as his topic the po
tential power of leadership and
ability found in each person and
the ways of developing this
potential. The talk was thor
oughly enjoyed by all and the
club would like to express its
appreciation to Mr. Brown.
The meeting was adjourned
with prayer.
D. L. Branyon, agronomist
cotton, Agricultural Extension
Service, says scientists have
found a method of converting
( cotton seed hulls into plastic.
Joe Remley
Honored Al
Oxford Parly
The members of Southern
Bell Plant Department honored
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Remley with
a dinner at the Oxford Com
munity Building last Wednes
day night, February 18. The
testimonial dinner was given
Mr. Remley to honor his promo
tion to another position as well
as appreciation of his help,
guidance and cooperation both
with employees under his sup
ervision and associates.
Mr. Remley came to Coving
ton in December of 1939 to help
on the conversion of Dial tele
phones and has worked on
every technical phase of the
Plant office both inside and out
side until his promotion to Su
pervisor in 1953.
G. D. Lancaster, Service Su
pervisor, was Master of Cere
monies and spokesman for the
group in wishing Mr. Remley a
bright future and C. S. Hene
gan of Athens, Ga. District
Plant Manager, was on hand
to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Rem
ley to Athens and also looking
forward to a progressive asso
ciation for the Southern Bell
Telephone Co.
D. R. Colquitt was designated
by the employees to present Mr.
Remley with a handsome desk
set of double pen staffs mount
ed in marble with Mr. Remley’s
name inscribed in bronze. Har
old Rice, Group Manager, ad
dressed the gatherings as well
as Mrs. Ilene Savage, Chief
Operator, A. B. Denman, Con
struction Supervisor and Rus
sel Parker who is to assume Mr.
Remley’s position here in Cov
ington.
The members of the Oxford
Community Club prepared and
served delicious steaks with all
the trimmings, on beautifully
decorated tables under the cap
able direction of Mrs. Reba
Lancaster. Several employees
from out of town as well as all
of the local Plant Department
attended.
Mr. Remley’s new position as
Central Office Foreman is sche
duled to take effect March 1.
Mrs. Remley and Daughter,
Jeanette, who is a Freshman
member of Newton High School,
will leave Covington at a later
date.
E. L. Patrick and
Don Briscoe Visit
Purina Farm
E. L. Patrick and H. Donald
■ Briscoe of Covington, were a
mong approximately 300 farm
ers from this section of the
country who visited the Purina
Research Farm at Gray Sum
mit, Missouri last week and
spent the following day tour
ing the company’s mills and
research laboratories in St. •
Louis.
Thousands of farmers from (
all sections of the United
States and many from foreign ।
countries visit the farm each ।
year to see results of experi- j
ments conducted there in live- ।
stock and poultry feeding and (
management. The 778-acre farm i
is devoted entirely to farm re- i
search projects. 1
This Paper Is Covington’s
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
162 Girls Al Newton High
Taking Homemaking Courses
How long has it been since
you visited the homemaking de
partment in your high school?
If you haven’t been there
since the days when homemak
ing courses were known as "do
mestic science” and featured
stitching a straight seam and
learning about carbohydrates
and proteins, you may wind up
feeling like Rip Van Winkle!
At Newton County High
School two Homemaking teach
ers, Mrs. J. D. McKinsey and
Miss Ruth Tanner, instruct 162
girls and supervise two Future
Homemaker Chapters with 139
members.
Mothers assisting these teach
ers are Mrs. Albert Parker, Mrs.
Ed Hertwig, Mrs. Byron Paden,
Mrs. Sherty Campbell Jr., Mrs.
Harry Dietz and Mrs. Jake
Hooten.
The FHA’s main goal is
“Learning to live better today
in order that the homemaking
pupils lives and those of their
families may be better tomor
row.”
Modern homemaking courses
—now as ingrown a part of the
high school curriculum as math
and English and science—are
net only interesting, but inval
uable to modern families. In
these days when millions of wo
men work at jobs outside the
home, homemaking courses fo
cus on “all the family helping”.
Choosing the right appliances,
learning to stretch the family
dollar wisely, budgeting family
time, organizing the household
as efficiently as engineering a
modern laboratory, and culti
vating the gentle skills of guid
ing children and ministering to
the hurt and the sick — all these
things are part of the learnings
of the modern homemaking stu
dent in Georgia’s high schools.
Georgia’s 570 homemaking
teachers last year taught 53,-
765 high school girls and boys.
They went in and out homes
helping with and supervising
185.367 projects which their
students planned and carried
out. Most popular project was
Selection, Care, Construction
and Renovation of Clothing; 43,-
169 students chose that one.
Some others that are popular
are these: Provision of Food
for the Family, Home Improve
ment (interior and exterior),
Personal Care and Improve-
William E. Wolfe Speaker al DCT
William E. Wolfe gave a most
interesting talk at the Annual
D.C.T. Breakfast Meeting held
at Bill’s Grill Friday morning
February 20.
The subject upon which Mr.
Wolfe spoke is a very vital one.
It was “What Industry Will Re
quare of Young Job Seekers in
the Future.” He stressed that
all young people must secure
at least a high school education
in order to get a job in the
future. To those who wish to
be leade’rs, highly skilled tech
nicians, managers and owners
in tomorrow’s industrial w'orld,
he said, must get much more
than a high school education,
in our colleges, technical in
stitutions and in live work sit- |
uations.
Mr. Wolfe predicted startling
changes in the economy of the
United States by 1975. The
population will approximately
be 200 million. With this great
increase in population will come
automation and electrification
of industry, which will displace
thousands of wrorkers. This will
mean that many people must
be retrained tor more responai-
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ment, and Care and guidance ot
Children.
In the ninth and tenth grade
such things as planning or
choosing their clothes, living
with small brothers and sisters
without too much quarreling,
keeping home a safer place to
live, helping with family menus
and marketing, and how nutri
tion affects their lives and per
sonalities are learned. As they
get into the senior high school,
many of them are engaged and
they begin seriously to think
about building good homes of
their own. Homemaking courses
have the answers for them.
“Os course homemaking can
be a crip course,” said a girl
who made A’s in chemistry and
history. “But so can English and
math, and anything else. It de
pends on the teacher and the
student. The good home eco
nomics course can be the stif
fest and the most valuable in
high school. It brings to a fo
cus the importance of art, eco
nomics, chemistry, math, so
ciology, and ah else we learn,
and applies it to daily life.”
Principals—who have helped
their homemaking t achers and
superintendents plan many of
the colorful, efficient homemak
ing departments in Georgia's
• new schools —report that most
! parents want their children to
■ have some homemaking course
. in high school.
> Now and then, there is a
r hold-out. Some father, looking
J at yesterday, demands to know
I why girls can’t leam homemak
-1 ing at home from mamma.
The answer is two-fold: more
‘ often than not, mamma is not
3 there. She’s working at an out
e side job. Secondly, even if
s mamma is there, she can’t keep
• us with all the new learnings
'• that research turns up every
g day. The homemaking teacher,
- who is a professional, does keep
i. up with these things. It’s her
s business to keep her students—
J and through them, their homes
• —in touch with the best that the
1 modern world has to offer for
s the building of the good homes
i on which our survival depends.
That’s why many people be
lieve that Georgia’s homemak
ing education —headed by Miss.
Inez Wallace, who supervises
it all for the State Department
of Education —is an indispen
sable part of the modern school.
; ble jobs. It may mean, he said,
a shorter work week, possibly
a four-day work week with a
vacation in summer and winter.
These predictions have many
implications. It means that you
young people will have to get
the best possible training, pos
sibly in several fields, if you
expect to compete for jobs in
the highly technical industrial
' world of tomorrow. It means
that you will have to learn bet
ter how to work and live with
peoole.
The population will be great
er and air travel will bring us
closer to our foreign neighbors,
with whom you must learn to
work and cooperate.
Mr. Wolfe stressed that we
must learn to profitably utilize
leisure because we will have
more of it.
He further stressed the Im
portance of spiritual values in
all our lives if we expect to
live and get along and keep
peace in the world of tomorrow
Only through education of all
its people can America remain
a leading industrial and world
powetr.