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We read of heartaches and
sorrows from afar . , . our
hearts go out to the loved ones
. . . and yet the turmoil within
our heart is not as great as
when the tragedy, or heartache
is here at home . . . with people
we know . . . our near neigh
bors.
Tuesday morning found Mrs.
•3ohn Mooney, at home, with a
new baby just four days old.
A colored maid was taking care
of her three little boys. Around
10 o’clock the maid had missec
one of the boys, two year old
Wayne. He could be found no
where. When the search was
fruitless, this mother, of a baby
four days old, climbed into her
car and rushed to her nearest
neighbors home, Mrs. Roy Kim
ble, who is Gum Creek corre
spondent for the NEWS. The
mother fainted while Mrs. Kim
ble was telephoning for help.
And help they did have . . .
Sheriff John Berry and all the
police force were on the job . . .
Mr. Berry notified National
Guard, Civil Defense, State
Patrol . . . and our fine Taxi
drivers gave of their service in
taking men out to help in the
search . . . What of that little
mother? She was resting under
sedatives. All day long, the
father worked in Atlanta and
returned home to learn the sad
news, and find his wife in this
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Mel Waggoner
Is Chairman Os
Petroleum Com.
Plans for the celebration of
Oil Centennial Year and elec
tion of officers highlighted a
meeting here of the Newton
County Committee of the Petro
leum Association of Georgia
March 20, 1959.
M. H. Waggoner of Gulf Oil
Company was elected chairman.
Other officers
include J. G. El
liott, Pure; H.
M. Harris, Stan
dard; J. W. Day,
American; H. C.
Hicks, Texas;
J. F. Touch
stone, Thrift.
Members of
the local coin-
mittee heard F. ^el Waggoner
W. Savage, American Oil Com
pany speak on overall oil cen
tennial celebration plans for
Georgia.
“During the remainder of the
year, Newton county oil men
and women want to show the
petroleum industry’s contribu
tion to the prosperity of the
people of the county and state,”
Mr. Waggoner, newly elected
county chairman said.
America’s first commercial
oil well was completed on Au
gust 27, 1859, at Titusville,
Pennsylvania, by Colonel Ed
win L. Drake.
“Centennial plans include spe
cial events and talks which will
point up oil’s first 100 years of
pioneering spirit, freedom of
competition and the fact that
approximately 20,000 Georgians
derive their income from the
industry,” Mr. Waggoner con
cluded.
Knights Templar
Election Friday
Covington St. Bernard Com
mandery No. 25, K. T., will
elect and Install officers at
Covington Masonic Temp le,
Friday, March 27th at 7:30 P.M.
All officers are to be elected by
ballot at the regular conclave
on Good Friday without oral
nomination. The Sentinel and
three guards will be appointed.
All of our Fraters are re
quested to attend this conclave.
Visitors welcome. Mark L.
Davis, Commander, J. L. Skin
ner, Recorder, By W. J. Dingus,
Jr. P.C.
Georgia Employment
Representative Comes
To Covington, Friday
A representative of the Geor
gia State Employment Service
will be in Covington on Friday,
March 27, 1959 at 9:30 a.m., in
the Court House to discuss Job
Insurance with applicants.
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VOLUME 95
EAm SUNRISE SERVICE AT FOOTBALL FIELD
CL L Is Found After 6-Hour Search Tuesday
Wayne Mooney, Age 2,
Object Gum Creek Anxiety
A frantic 6-hour search by some 150 persons Tuesday
was culminated about 4 o’clock when a 2-1/2-year-old boy
was united with his parents in the Gum Creek section of
Newton County.
Little Wayne Mooney, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John David Moon
ey, wandered out his back door
and disappeared about 10 A.M.
Mrs. Mooney was in a bedroom
with a four-day-old baby when
young Wayne suddenly disap
peared from the care of a Ne
gro woman who was working
for the Mooneys.
A quick search of the premi
ses failed to find little Wayne
and the mother soon drove the
family car to the home of Mrs.
Roy Kimble to telephone for
help from the Newton County
Sheriff’s Office and the State
Patrol.
Wayne was finally located
about a mile from his home
through the use of bloodhounds
from the Putnam County Work
Camp. He was sitting on a big
flat rock, apparently
unaware of the excitement and
anxiety he had caused. The
section was a heavily wooded
area at the back of the Mooney
Home. The boy was found about
4:15 o'clock.
To Wayne, who rode home in
a National Guard jeep, and was
ready to go on “another ride”,
it was high adventure: but to
his mother who was under the
care of a physician from the
ordeal, and the band of anxious
searchers it was a nightmare
with a happy ending.
The father of the boy was
finally reached at his job at the
Chevrolet Plant in Atlanta
about 2:45 and he soon left for
his home with Charles Cowan,
a neighbor, driving the car.
They arrived on the scene
shortly after Wayne was found.
Aiding in the search were the
Newton County National Guard
Unit under Cant. Oliver Mor
gan, R. T. Floyd’s Civil Defense
personnel of Covington, high
school boys and many of the
Moonev’s neighbors and friends
of the Gum Creek community.
Three taxi operators of Cov
ington, Ed King, Hoyt Grier and
Ernest Willard, took three loads
of Newton County High School
students to the scene to help in
the search.
Neighbors feared that the
little boy may have fallen in
one of three open wells in the
neighborhood, but a quick check
showed that he was not in any
of these wells. There are two
wells near the Mooney home,
but Mr. Mooney said that he
had repeatedly cautioned his
children about going near the
wells. Mr. Mooney also said that
the two dogs at his home gen
erally played with the children
and he couldn’t understand why
one of the dogs was not with
Wavne when he disappeared.
Tn the mid-afternoon when
the boy had not been located
Sheriff John Berry and mem
bers of the State Highway Pa
trol called the office of General
George Hearn of the State Civil
Defense unit in Atlanta. The
State CD was planning to send
large searchlights to the scene
so that the hunt could continue
until after dark if need be. Al
so a CD Helicopter was re
auested and would probably
have been used about 4 30 or
5 o’clock.
Other than the young baby
the Mooneys have two other
children, David 5. and Timmy
1 1/2 years of age.
The Mooneys, who live on
the J. P. Mitcham farm, said
late Tuesdav that they wanted
all their neighbors and friends
to know that they were most
grateful for their hdn in the
search. Thev asked The Cov
ington News to convev their
heartfelt thanks to all who
helped in the ordeal.
SAM MARTIN IN GRADY
Sam Martin was taken to
Grady Hospital in Atlanta last
Tuesday night after his car
overturned when he was re
turning home from a fishing
trip.
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Youth Held In
Piper Death
James Edward Walden of
Route 1, Covington is being held
in Newton County Jail pending
a preliminary hearing in the
death of Fred Clarence Piper,
Jr., 27, late Wednesday night.
A Coroner’s inquest was to have
been held yesterday afternoon
(Wednesday) at Caldwell and
Cowan Funeral Home in con
nection with the finding of the
body Thursday afternoon.
In an article carried in The
Atlanta Journal Friday, Newton
County Sheriff John Berry gave
the following account of the in
cident:
COVINGTON, Ga., March 21
—A 20-year-old youth Friday
was being held at the Newton
County jail here in connection
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and Mri. T. A. Rape who entered and won recognition at the
Fourth District Regional Music Festival held at Carrollton on
Saturday, March 14. They are left to right: Janelle Wood, ex
cellent plus: Catherine Laxenby, excellent; Mrs. Goode; Mac Mc-
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1959
“Miss Newton County”
Pageant Saturday Night
All details have been cleared for the staging of the
Newton County Junior Chamber of Commerce’s Second An
nual “Miss Newton County” Beauty Pageant at the high
school auditorium Saturday evening at 8 o’clock.
Nine contestants are entered
for the title with which the win
ner will become eligible for the
“Miss Georgia” contest later in
Columbus. Three lovely cups
will go to the three top girls
after the final judging Satur
day night. Miss Myrna Warren,
the 1958 winner, will crown
the new “Miss Newton County.”
The contest here also has
three U. S. Savings Bonds to
the winner and the runners-up.
The Jaycees will give a $50.00
bond to the winner and $25.00
bonds each to the next two girls
in the pageant.
The “Miss Newton County”
title is awarded by the same
rules and point system as the
Miss America title at Atlantic
City. The girls are judged on
beauty, brains and talent.
The last candidate to be ac
cepted for the 1959 Pageant
was Miss Jackie Pickett, who
will represent the Newton
County Chamber of Commerce.
Others entered are: Miss Sue :
Pratt, Covington Kiwanis Club; ]
Miss Brenda Bailey, Elks Club;
Miss Margaret Autry, Emory 1
ROTC; Miss Laurie Dial, Na-
Adult Bible
Conference
Here April 1-3
An Adult Bible Conference
will be held at Covington First
Methodist Church on April 1,
2 and 3 from 7:30 to 9:15 p.m.
each night.
Rev. Robert Funk, Professor
of New Testament at Candler
School of Theology, Emory Uni
versity, will lead the study 1
which will be on Paul’s Letter *
to the Romans.
Mrs. Barbara Pittard, Confer
ence Director of Methodist
Adult Work, will be in charge
of the Conference.
The public is invited to at
tend. 1
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tional Guard; Miss Josephine
Heard, Covington Rotary Club;
Miss Faye Dyer, Covington
Lions Club; Miss Linda Bledsoe,
Covington Fire Department;
and Miss Pamelia Laster, Amer
ican Legion.
Co-chairmen in charge of the
pageant program are Rucker
Ginn and Warren Kirkland.
Fashion Revue
Set For Legion
Home, April 3
The Newton County Home
Demonstration Clubs will hold
their annual Fashion Show on
Friday afternoon, April 3. The
show will be held at the Ameri
can Legion Home at 2:30 P.M.
The following groups will be
modeled by home demonstration
club members:
1. House Dresses
2. Play Clothes
3. Tailored or Street
4. Party Dresses
5. Church
6. Stylish Stouts
7. Coats and Suits
8. Remodeled garments
The Tiny Tots will model gar
ments made by their mothers or
grandmothers or friends.
The 4-H girls will model cos
tumes they have made.
The 10-11 year old 4-H girls
will model a skirt.
The 12-13 year old girls will '
model a skirt and blouse or a
dress.
The Senior 4-H girls will mo
del one in the following classes:
1. School outfit
2. Play outfit
3. Tailored outfit
4. Party outfit.
The public is invited to at
tend.
Cants, superior; Peggy Mclntosh, axcallani; Seaborn Hardman,
•xcellani plus: (those all are high school stvdents): Robin Den
nison, good; Mrs. Rape: and Nolda White, good. Robin and Nelda
are grammar school students of Mrs. Rape.
Ladies Night
Program For
Local Kiwanians
A special Ladies Night pro
gram has been carefully plan
ned for local Covington Kiwan
ians and their guests tonight at
the Ficquett School Cafetorium,
according to the special events
committee chairman Sam Hay.
Main speaker for the program
will be Lee Aikman, popular
after-dinner speaker and col
umnist for the Atlanta Consti
tution. He has made several
speeches here in the interest of
campaign and special club ac
tivities and always captivates
his hearers.
Mr. Hay said that the program
will mark the 32nd Anniversary
of the founding of the Coving-
I ton Kiwanis Club. The birth
i date of the local civic organiza
tion was March 1927.
| Newton County’s Representa
itive in the Georgia General As
[sembly House, Don Ballard, was
j the main speaker at the Kiwanis
■Club meeting Thursday at Le
igion Home.
Rep. Ballard enlightened the
members present about the me-
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R. M. Tuck, Jr.
Takes Farm
Loan Position
R. M. Tuck Jr. of Covington
has been elected assistant sec
retary-treasurer of the Madi
son National Farm Loan Assn,
which serves 17 counties in this
area, with J. P. Hatchell of
Madison as secretary-treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Tuck and
daughter will take up residence
in Madison about April 1.
Rev. Nichols Will Bring
The Ministerial Message
An early sunrise worship service will be conducted in
the Newton County High School Football Stadium on Easter
morning (Sunday) at 7 A.M. This program is being pro
moted by the Newton County Ministerial Association and
all members of all churches are invited and urged to at
tend.
REV. NICHOLS
Soil Bank
Enrollees Must
Obey Contract
Is your farm under a Conser
vation Reserve contract in the
Soil Bank this year? If so, be
sure to comply with any acreage
allotments on the farm and also
to observe your permitted acre
age of Soil Bank base crops.
That’s the reminder going out
this week from the Newton Ag
ricultural Stabilization and
Conservation office to all parti
cipants in the 1959 Soil Bank
Program.
Generally speaking, the per
mitted acreage on a Soil Bank
farm is the amount of land on
which grains, oilseeds, and row
crops may be produced. It con
sists of the historical acreage
of such crops less the amount
of land placed in the Conserva
tion Reserve. A farmer who
exceeds this permitted acreage
or any acreage allotment on the
farm may lose his annual rental
payment and also be subject to
a civil penalty.
The ASC office points out
that when all eligible cropland
on a farm is in the Soil Bank,
the permitted acreage is zero.
The home garden area on such
a farm may be used to produce
crops for home use, for setting
out forest trees or for non-agri
cultural purposes; but produc
tion of a Soil Bank base crop
on such acreage is a contract
violation.
Three Local
Students Named
To Merit List
The following Emory-at-Ox- 1
ford students were named to
the honor and merit lists at the ’
end of the winter quarter, ac- ‘
cording to Registrar M. C.
Wiley.
Honor list — Margaret Anne
Awtry, Senoia; Dale Black wood.
Social Circle; Jimmy Brantley,
Wrightsville; Rembert Glass,
Jr., Albany: Thomas Grier,
Blakely; Richard Kahn, Haw
kinsville; Geraldine Maddox,
McDonough; Janet Miller, At
lanta; Sandra Poole. Tifton; J
William Powell, Jacksonville, <
Fla.; Ralph Reeves, LaGrange; 1
William Burton Shadburn, Bu- j
ford; Larry Williams, Garden <
City, Savannah.
Merit List students from '
Newton County included: Sue *
Pratt and Joe Sharp of Coving- j
ton; and Dave Snodgrass of Ox- (
ford. I
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
The service will be conducted
under the leadership of the
Reverend J. W. Scarborough,
Pastor of the Alien Memorial
Methocust Church, Oxford. With
other ministers of this local
area participating in the service.
The Reverend E. P. Nichols,
Pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Covington, will deliver
the morning message.
In the event of inclement
weather, the service will be
conducted in the auditorium of
the high school.
The other ministers who will
participate in the service are:
the Reverend Peyton Splane,
Rector of The Church Os The
Good Shepherd, Covington; the
Reverend Henry Dillard, Pastor
of the Julia A. Porter Memorial
Methodist Church, Porterdale;
and the Rev. Walter Perry, Jr.,
Pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Porterdale.
1 Attend HD
Council Meeting
■ In Covington
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The Northwest District Home
Demonstration Council meeting
’ was held at the Covington First
Baptist Church on March 11
with over 300 attending the
meeting, according to Mrs.
James C. Elliott, secretary of
the Newton County Home Dem
onstration Council.
The theme of the meeting
was “Each Home A Beacon
Light.”
Registration began at 9:30 in
the educational building follow
ing by group singing at 10 a m
The devotional was given by
Rev. Edgar Callaway, pastor,
followed by special music,
"Bless This House” by Newton
County Home Demonstration
Club members.
Mrs. Roy Aiken, president of
the Newton County Council,
gave the welcome, after which
Mrs. Hinton Logan, president of
the State Home Demonstration
Council, and Mrs. E. S. Cown,
Southern Regional Director, ex
tended greetings.
During the business session,
reports were given by Mrs. H.
R. Darden, Mrs. Andy Rape,
Mrs. W. A. Peavy and Miss
Avola Whitesell.
Rev. Ted Haggard, pastor of
Salem Methodist Church, gave
the invocation, after which
lunch was served at 12:30.
At 1:30 group singing and
County Council reports were
given. Miss Doris Oglesby, hous
ing and equipment specialist,
gave a report on “A New Look
at an Old Subject,” followed
by a report from Lora Laine,
District Agent, after which the
meeting adjourned.
Rural Rd. Project
Let In County
The State Highway Depart
ment opened bids Friday on 60
contracts which covered road
work in 55 counties in the state.
Among those let to contract was
one project in Newton County.
The local project was for
4.185 miles of base and surface
on the Covington-Alcovy Road.
The apparent low bidder on the
project was Knox Brothers, Inc.,
of Thomson, Ga. The amount of
their bid wag oq
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