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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
City And REA Employees
Perform Heroic Service In
Restoring Light and Power
The recent ice storm has demonstrated
what a fine group of people we have
associated with our public utilities. They
arose to the recent emergency in away
to make the entire citizenry of Newton
County proud of them.
The city employees worked 36 hours
without ceasing and were back on the
job with just a few hours rest and have
been working many hours day and night
extra to get light and power to our com
munity.
The city policemen and firemen volun
tarily helped in every way possible ascer
taining where the breaks were and in
places helping clear driveways and going
far beyond the call of duty in many in
stances.
Mayor Nat Turner was called out at
1:30 A. M. Wednesday and wnen he saw
the extent of the freeze he immediately
placed a phone call to the Mayors of Moul
trie and Albany who promptly dispatched
line trucks and line crews to the assistance
of our city.
The lady employees of the City Hall
cooked and served meals to the tireless
workers all during the emergency day and
night at the City Hall, evidencing the
great spirit of cooperation and service which
everywhere prevailed.
The City of Oxford was, if anything,
harder hit than Covington, due to the
fact they did not have many trained em
ployees. They were assisted, however, by
a group of volunteers who worked equally
as faithfully as the paid workers of the
city. The city of Camilla sent a truck and
trained workers to help the Oxford volun
teers and they gave valiant assistance in
supplying electricity to the schools, busi
nesses and families of Oxford.
The greatest task of rehabilitation faced
the Snapping Shoals Rural Electrification
Membership Corporation as mules and
miles of lines were out of commission.
These faithful employees also worked 36
hours without stopping and by their valiant
efforts were enabled to get. many families
served who would otherwise suffered great
hardship.
To prevent the great spoilage of meat
and other perishables the management se
cured 40,000 pounds of dry ice and sup
plied it without charge to stores, residen
ces, etc., with freezers, thus saving hun
dreds of pounds of valuable foodstuff
which would mean so much to the economy
of the owners.
The lady employees of the REA office
likewise served breakfast, lunch and din
ner to these faithful employees and many
times it was midnight each night before
the last crews were finished with their
meals.
The management of the Ne-Hi Bottling
Plant served faithfully in securing dry
ice for the Snapping Shoals management
to send to their customers, furnishing 10,-
000 pounds at short notice.
Approximately 40 men were secured
from other Co-ops and contractors and con
struction crews were also engaged to help
in restoring service to the rural members
who were without electricity-
All of the primary lines are back in
use on the REA but there are several
transformers which have to be renewed
and the management states they hope to
have complete service restored at the
earliest possible moment.
The Southern Bell Telephone employees
also served faithfully and well, sacrificing
sleep and comfort, to labor long and hard
to restore telephone facilities which are so
vital to the well-being of the citizens of
every community.
They performed prodigious tasks and
many crews from the sections of the State
which were fortunate to escape the ice
storm were called in to assist in restoring
service.
There were many acts of heroism and
hardships far beyond the call of duty
performed by all these workers and un
named volunteers to help alleviate the
suffering of our citizens.
To each of these we know we express
the sentiments of the citizens of Newton
County when we say: “thanks a Million’’
to the greatest corp of workmen in the
Nation who responded so willingly and
wholeheartedly to the needs of their com
munity.
We are proud and thankful for such
fine groups of men.
Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary o f
Health. Education and Welfare, pledged an
all-out effort to back up the Food and
Drug Administration’s campaign to protect
consumers from “the fraudulent products
and schemes being foisted upon the public
as weigl^ reducers.”
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We Salute The Girl Scouts
And Their Fine Leaders
Celebrating Anniversary
The entire Nation is celebrating this
week tiie Anniversary of the founding of
the Girl Scout movement. This movement
has grown until it is now celebrated in
many Nations over the globe.
The Boy Scout organization proved
such a boon to the boys of ours, and other
Nations throughout the World, that it was
thought a like movement among the girls
would prove equally beneficial.
This has proven to be the case and
thousands of Girl Scouts over the World
are enjoying this beneficial training today.
In our own county we are very fortunate
indeed to have several troops and these
troops are active under wonderful leader
ship.
Like the Boy Scout movement the Girl
Scouts are trained in many phases of use
ful activity. These activities prove to be
beneficial in the adult life of these girls
and much credit is due to fine leadership
and training received under the Girl Scout
movement.
We salute these Girl Scouts and Brownie
troops and wish for them continued suc
cess in our community and throughout the
World. We know of no activity which gives
more lasting benefit in training and com
panionship.
Like the Boy Scout movements, our
Girl Scouts are better citizens, wives and
mothers for receiving this wonderful train
ing. We congratulate each and every
Brownie and Girl Scout and pay tribute
to their consecrated leaders who are en
gaged in this very worthwhile movement.
Newton County Pays
Tribute to National
4-H z ers During This Week
Somewhere between the sterness of a
parent and the comradeship of a pal is
that mysterious creature we call a 4-H
Leader.
These leaders come in all shapes and
sizes, and may be male or female. But
they all have one thing in common —
a glorious twinkle in their eyes.
Newton County has a total of 550 4-H
club members in the 10 clubs of the county.
They are under the capable supervision
of Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Hazel
Malone and County Agent Ed Hunt.
Let us stop right here in Newton County,
the cradle of the 4-H movement which has
spread to all America, to pause and say
a “Well done, 4-H members and adult
leader's.” This is your week but, the work
that you accomplish lasts through the
other 51 weeks of the year.
4-H leaders are found everywhere —
at judging contests, at Junior fairs, square
dances and talent shows. They are always
preparing for, sitting through, participat
ing in, or recuperating from, a meeting
of some kind.
They are tireless consumers of muffins,
expert at taking knots out of thread, peer
less coaches, and spend hours on the tele
phone.
Nobody else is so early to rise, and so
late to get home at night. We sometimes
forget them, but we can’t do without them.
They receive no salary, and we can never
repay them.
They are angels in aprons, saints in
straw hats. Their only reward is the love
of the kids and the respect of the com
munity. But when they look around them
al the skills they have taught, and the
youth they have built, there’s an inner
voice from somewhere that says: “Well
done!”
Safety Rules For
Kite Flying Time
Kite flying time is here again. It’s one
of the oldest and best of juvenile diver
sions. But there can be danger in it, as
well as fun.
So eight safety rules of kite flying
recommended by the Pacific Gas & Elec
tric Company of San Francisco should be
emphasized to every child. Here they are:
1. Don’t fly a kite with metal in the
frame or tail. 2. Don’t use tinsel-string,
wire or twine that has any saetal in it.
3. Don’t fly a kite near electric power
lines. 4. Don’ fly a kite over radio or TV
aerials. 5. Never pull on a string or climb
a power pole to loosen a snagged kite.
6. Don’t touch fallen electric wires. 7. Don’t
run across streets or highways while fly
ing kites. 8. Don’t fly a kite in the rain.
“The U. S. Government spent more
money in the fifties . . . than it did in the
1940'5, whic> deluded all o.* H’frld V’a r
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
1 Associate Editor
M MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
Before Governors and Kings
Bible Material: Acts 24-26
Devotional Reading: Mat
thew 16: 16-25: Memory Selec
tion: God did not give us a
spirit of timidity but a spirit of!
power and love and self-con
trol. II Timothy 1:7.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
A Day in Court
Young People-Adult Topic:,
The Christian Witness to Civil I
Rulers.
In uealing with Paul the
Apostle, we are dealing with
one of the most unusual men
of all time. He was the great
est theologian the Christian
church has produced in its his
tory. No missionary has ever
founded churches under more
difficult conditions than did he,
and the churches he founded
were destined to constitute the
trunk of a groat tree with
many branches. Although Jesus
and his twelve disciples were,
apparently, men of no formal
education save the meager
training they had received in
village synagogue schools, Paul
(in his youth bearing the He
brew name Saul) had enjoyed
opportunities for formal edu
cation equal to the best gradu
ate school training today.
There were many interesting
things about this unusual man.
For some reason unknown to
us he had been born a free Ro
man citizen, and this was some
thing quite unusual among
Jews. Paul had a great world
view both of God’s purposes
and the church’s mission Tn
today’s lesson we witness Paul
standing before the Roman i
governor Festus and Agrippa,
King of Judah. Paul behaves as
a man should, of his back
ground and learning to behave.
His address to the king and to
the Roman governor was
straight to the ooint, uncom
promising in its Christian Theo
logy. yet delivered in respect
ful terms and in an irenic
spirit.
Paul had learned the hard
way that false ideas are over
whelmed by nothing other than
the true apd convincing power
of right ideas.
Paul began his address by a
polite reference to Agrippa’s
knowledge of the realities of
the Jewish religion. This Mrio
pa had full knowledge of the
teachings of the Jewish reh ;
ion, but if rumor is to be erc - ’
ited, he was one of the most,
monstrously debased persons of
his generation, and his sister
Bernice was equally so.
Here was the world’s great
est exponent and defender of I
revealed truth confronting a
man and woman of beastly
morals and a stern Roman of
ficial who probably prided him
self on being skeptical about all
religion.
In verses 4 to 13 (not in
cluded in our printed text but
a part of the lesson as a whole),
Paul recounts his conversion. I
He had started out as a young .
man hating Christianity so bit
terly that he not only led the
persecution against believers
but asked the high priest to al
low him to carry his cruel ac
tivities “even unto strange (for
eign) cities.”
It was while he was on his
way to Damascus that had a
vision of Christ and received j
from him a commission to carry '
the belief to men everywhere
and particularly to the Gen- ;
tiles.
Paul’s conversion was also,
the conversion of a great scho
lar. He had sat at the feet of '
Gamaliel (Acts 22:3), the the-|
ologian par excellence among ■
the Jews of that day. We may !
wonder at times what would |
have happened to the Christian ;
church had it not been for Paul.
Jesus laid dow the principles of .
revealed truth. He was the in- |
carnation both of God and ofl
God's message. But somebody I
had to take the general prin- I
ciples laid down by Jesus, ap
ply them to the life of the Ro- ■
man world of that day, and by I
so doing make an application ’
which would have meaning for'
all people through the centur-!
ies.
There probably have been j
many Christian believers ’
through the centuries as heroic'
as Paul, as righteous as was
this uncompromising figure.!
and as learned. But because
Paul lived and taught at the
time he did, he had the op-1
port unity to present Chris tan I
truth with a force and author- I
ity never since equaled.
Paul is by all odds the most'
influential Christian believer
that the church has produced
in its two-thousand-year his
tory.
Paul had experienced a tran
scending vision which was to
change the faith and thought of
the world. He had been defin
tely commissioned by Christ
to open men’s eyes and “to turn
them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan
unto God, that they may re
ceive forgiveness of sins, and
inheritance among them which
are sanctified by faith that is in
me (Jesus Christ) Where-unon,,
O king Agrippa, I was not diso- ।
bedient unto the heavenly vis- :
ion: but shewed first unto them'
of Damascus, and at Jerusalem,
and throughout all the coasts of
Judaea, and then to the Gen
tiles. that they should repent
and turn to God, and do works
meet for repentance” (Acts 26:
18-20).
The Bible does not go into
details as to the cruel methods
of persecution which Paul san
ctioned and used in the day of
his ignorance and hatred. But
now he knew that Jesus Christ
was what he had claimed to
be. This Christ was the consum
mation of that long line of re
vealed truth which God had
made known to his people. He
was the promised Messiah. He
was the Saviour sent to a lost
world.
How thrilling to hear a man
say, “I was not disobedient un
to the heavenly vision.” We all
have our heavenly visions —
perhaps not supernatural re
velations of heavenly glory
such as Paul on the road to
Damascus, but visions of God’s
love and purpose directly to
our hearts. The Bible, which has
come to be universally accept
ed by Christians as the record
of God’s revealed truth, is now
a completed book. But through
the sixth-six books of the Bi
ble, God is constantly reveal
ing Himself to the world and to
our hearts.
The Bible is the public re
velation meant for all men. Yet
there is a special revelation for
you and for me every day, if we
will but seek to apprehend it.
It is the Bible truth applied to
our daily needs. It is God’s spo
ken directive coming to us
through conscience and reason,
warning us what to avoid and
indicating clearly what He
wants us to do.
There are millions of people
who, when they come to the
end of their lives, must be sor
rowfully conscious of the fact
that they have not been obe
dient to God’s heavenly vision.
They have had the advantages
of Christian upbringing. The
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Short Course For
Egg Producers
Set March 16
Georgia egg producers had a
“rough” year in 1959, accord-j
ing to Dewey McNiece, poul-1
tryman. Agricultural Extension
Service. To help them deal with
two of their chief problems —
diseases and low prices a
Commerical Egg producers
Short Course has been plan
ned for March 16 at the School
church stood ready to help. A
multitude of friends have wish
ed them well and encouraged
them to take right pathways.
The imploring hands of Christ
were extended to them all
through their earthly journey,
yet they came to the end with
out having responded in any
satisfactory fashion to Gods
gracious advances.
WEEK END SPECIALS
First Cut Pork Chops Lb. 39c
Sliced Bacon 777777777 7.7 7” ILb Pkg. 29c
Red Smoked Links (Sausage) _ _ 4 Lbs. for 97c
Small Whole Fresh Hams (Skin On) Lb.49c
Small Whole Fresh Shoulders (Skin On) Lb729c
Fresh Back Bone Lb. 39c
Perch Fillet Lb. 39c
25 Lb. Can Lard (Home Made Kind) Ea7s2 59
45 Lb. Can Lard (Home Made Kind) Ea. $4.95
Lemons ~7 7 dozeiT29c
Bunch Collards Ea. 25c
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'of Veterinary Medicine, Uni- j
versity of Georgia.
The short course is sponsor
ed by the University’s poultry
division, including Extension,
teaching, and research.
“Commercial egg producers
। were plagued with low egg
■ prices during most of 1959.”
McNiece pointed out. “This
i trouble has followed them on
into 1960. In many flocks win
ter weather magnified disease
problems, too. To put it blunt
ly, egg producers have had a
' I rough time of it,” the College
of Agriculture specialist de
cla,-ed.
According to McNiece, the
morning session of the pre gram
will be devoted to disease con
’ trol and the afternoon part of
l| it to egg pricing and marketing.
■ Several new methods cf disease
: control will be discussed and
I new ideas for pricing and mov
,' ing eggs into market channels
■ will be presented.
’' “All egg producers who have
a problem, or problems, in di
sease control and with market-
Thursday, March 10. 19W
: ing are urged to attend th*
short course,” McNiece said.
Speakers will be: from the
University of Georgia — Dr.
Dale J. Richey, Dr. Malcolm
Reid, Dr. Sam Schmittle, Dr.
Henry Fuller, Steve J. Bran
nen, Dr. Ken May, R. A. Gay
vert, and McNiece: Poultry Di
agnostic Laboratories — Dr. W.
W. Adams, Tifton; Dr. Dank
Morris. Gainesville, and Dr.
Henry Burger. Dalton: Ga. Egg
As-cciation-Sidney Miller, pre
i rident, Irwinton, and C. E.
Boggs, sc -rotary, Atlanta: Pro
. -J U c ’s — Dolph Calloway,
Rayle, and Bruce Hancock,
■ M' iettp.
, Dr. J. Clyde Drigeers, chair
. man of the University poultry
” •«' will nreside at t h e
morning session and Arthur
He ioa, Extension poultryman,
I at the afternoon session.
Tn 1959. according to state 4-
H Club leaders. Agricultural
; , Extension Service, 5,994 Club
. I members attended camp at the
. Rock Eagle 4-H Center.