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Thursday, March 10, 1960
State Farm
Mutual Had A
Banner Year
State Farm Mutual ended
1959 with an 11.9 percent share
of the nation’s private passen
ger car insurance market and
with earned premiums for the
year in excess of S4OO million,
the first time a single casualty
insurance company has passed
that dollar level.
Local agent for State Farm is
William E. Daughtrey, 14 West
Square, Covington.
Os the company’s $432,061,-
041 of earned premiums, auto
business accounted for $419,-
740,013. Other year-end figures
announced today by Adlai H.
Rust, chairman of the boards
of the three State Fann com
panies, show assets of $567,-
899,140, a 17 percent gain for
the period. Policyholders’ sur
plus increased 17.8 percent to
$156,119,624.
Claim costs mounted to a new
high for the tenth straight year,
Rust reported. Claims incurred
totaled $257,084,976, a 15.1 per
cent increase, and claims and
underwriting expenses incur
red climbed 7.9 percent to
$159,059,724. The company set
teld 2,118,360 claims during
the year.
Investment gain improved to
$16,164,447 over 1958’s $13.-
444, 795. The underwriting gain
of sls, 916,341 compares with
$8,814,696 for the previous
year. Federal income taxes to
taled $4, 495, 775.
The American Foundation for
the Blind’s survey shows that
while only 15 per cent of blind
persons read braille with fac
ility, almost all of them can
hear Talking Books.
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Emory-At-Oxford Glee Club
Starts Spring Concert Tour
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OFFICERS AND SECTION LEADERS of the Emory-At-
Oxford Glee Club are shown In the picture above. Left to
right front: Bill Reagin, Atlanta, president; Dale Pichard,
Tallahassee. Fla., section leader; Stephen Johnson, West
Point, business manager; Robert Young, West Point, sec
retary. Back: Neill Beavers, Jacksonville, Florida,
section leader; Phil Mcßae, Talbotton, vice president; Joe
Prince, Rockmart, section leader; and Dave Snodgrass, Ox
ford, section leader. — (Photo by Tom Dennis).
The Emory-at-Oxford Glee
Club will open its spring tour
with a concert in the Central
Methodist Church, Fitzgerald, on
Wednesday, March 16. Other con
certs scheduled on the tour are:
March 17, St. Paul’s Methodist
Church, Tallahassee, Fla.;
March 18, the First Methodist
Church, Lake City, Fla.; March
19, the First Methodist Church,
Bartow. Fla.; March 20 the
Miami Springs Methodist Church,
Miami Springs, Fla., and the
Lake Placid Methodist Church,
Lake Placid. Fla.; March 21, the
Riverside Methodist Church,
Miami, Fla.; March 22, the
Murray Hill Methodist Church,
Jacksonville, Fia.; and March 23,
the Mcßae Methodist Church, Mc-
Rae, Georgia.
Professor Harold W. Mann is
director of the Glee Club.
Accompanist is Jimmy Young
blood, North Augusta. S. C. Soloist
is Miss Brenda Gurley, Hartwell
Officers of the club are: Bill
Reagin, Atlanta, president; Phil
Mcßae, Talbotton, vice president;
Robert Young, West Point, secre
tary; and Stephen Johnson, West
Point, business manager.
Members ot the Glee Club are:
Tenor I — Neill Beavers, Jack
sonville, Fla., (Section Leader);
Sam Williams, Lake City, Fla.;
Jimmy Pope. Mcßae: Joe Willi
ams, Bowersville; Jack Sims,
Pembroke: Norman Gambill,
Cuthbert; Larry Jewett, Dawson;
John Bargeron, Millen; Tenor 11,
Dale Pichard, Tallahassee, Fla.,
(Section Leader); Loyd William
son, Macon: Eddie Hoiges. Calla
han, Fla.; Phil Mcßae. Talbotton;
Bill Reagin, Atlanta: Lynn Huie,
Monroe; Mike Kennedy, States
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lucky tv have neighbors who
do share their young people
with us since the ones we had
are married and gone. Lucky
us! And those girls! My, oh
me! They were so pretty we
just wished they were ours to
keep We are so happy
Mrs. Jack Elliott is home again
even if she can’t have any
company as yet . . . we just
sit here and know she is near,
and say a little prayer for her
speedy recovery from her re
cent illness . . so glad John
Bob Weaver is home again and
doing nicely too. Thinking of
George Allen and wishing and
praying that he will soon be
out again greatly improved.
We always regret to include
sad news within our column,
but the hearts of all bleed
with Eula Callaway (Mrs. Dan
Cosgrove) in the loss of her
precious little daughter, Elea
nor Brosnan Cosgrove, one of
the twins. We pray the Heav
enly Father will bnn” to th?ir
hearts that peace and perfect
understanding that He alone
can bring . . . and to our own
Relious Knight and his family
in the loss of his dear father.
Words can not express our
heartfelt sympathy to every
heart so grieved. Relius is
one of the ‘Covington News
Family” a valued employee and
very dear to our heart also . . .
Only those who have suffered
these losses truly know how to
sympathize . . . and we do,
oh so much.
The American Legion and
Legion Auxiliary held a won
derful Birthday Party at the
Legion Home Tuesday night . .
The speaker was wonderful . .
I kept looking at him and felt
like I knew him . . . finally he
in speaking, mentioned Bel
mont Dennis, and having been
m his home ... and then I re
membered ... he was one of
MY Emory at Oxford Boys .
Pete Wheeler, now the compe
tent and pooular heed of the
Veterans Service Dept, of
Georgia. He used to come and
visit us with the son of one of
my good friends from Thomas
ton . . . young Alton Jenkins
then . . , but Oh well that was
21 years ago ... so how could
we remember! These young
men grew up . . . which re
minds me of the wonderful
record our Emory men are
making for themselves over the
Nation from Alvin Barkley, who
was vice president of the U. S.
right on and on and on . . . Yes
it means something to be edu
cated in a rare Christian in
fluence seldom seen elsewhere
. . . just rubbing elbows with
Fesser Brown Dean Virgil Y.
C. Eady. Dr. Allen and all the
rest including the Mayor out
there means character build
ing m the best tradition
I can’t write for watching
that lce on the trees freeje g
nttle more and more . . and
the limbs already all over the
the yard and sidewalks
broken never to be repaired
what next? Which tree . '
I am running from window to
window ... but you know we
trees • ■ and our lit
tle birds were singing this
morning . . but not now On
please throw out all your'
bread and scraps for them
we sent to town for bird seed
and you know that the bov
came back with three packages
of parakeet seed . . but they
were et. This morning I or
dered suet and said -send a
large package of wild bird seed”
boro: John Fuller, Decatur: Bill
Smith, Stone Mountain; Ashle/
Calhoun, Augusta; Barrett Smith
Lavonia; Frank Copeland. Mc-
Donough; Mickey Walker. Bir
mingham Ala.; Troy Prcst m,
Monroe; Edward Sells. S o .1 t h
Rhodesia, Africa; Charles Otwell.
Bremen; John Edwards, Fort Vaf
ley.
T ~ Jo * Prince, Rockmart,
i Section Leader); Tad Bowman,
Montgomery. Ala.; Dean Carroll,
Vidaha; Edgar Smith, Mcßae;
Waights Henry, LaGrange; Jerry
Jarrell, Butler; Harry Wood
Monroe: Jim Moody. Cedartown;
Roger Lynn, Adel; Robt. Young,
West Point; Stephen Johnson,
West Point; Buddy McLaughlin,
Lake City, Fla.; Pat Haggerty,
Marietta: Bass TT — Dave Snod
grass. Oxford. (Section Leader);
Bill Daniel, Fitzgerald; Marvin
Hardy, Elberton; Robert Adams,
1 Dalton; Frank Leggett, Atlanta;
Riley Ash, Cedartown; Henry
Coker, Toccoa; Max Austin, We
tumpka, Ala.; Francis Alsobrook.
Fitzgerald; Bill Lee, Dallas; and
Tom Dennis, Macon.
Navy Enlistments
Are Now Open
To Ex-Service Men
Chief J. R. Sellers, ADC, USN
Petty Officer in Charge of the
local Navy Recruiting Station,
announced today that the Navy
is accepting ex-service men
from other branches of the
Armed Forces for enlistment.
Men who have been honorably
discharged from the Army, Air
Force, Marines, and Coast
Guard may be eligible for en
listment in the Navy.
Chief Sellers stated that the
Navy is especially interested in
ex-service personnel in order
that the military and specializ
ed training that they received
in the Armed Forces may be
utilized. In many instances,
such personnel are enlisted in
the identical job field for which
they have been trained in other
services. He also stated that
active duty service in other
branches of the Armed Forces
may be computed in total ser
vice for retirement purposes.
The Navy permits retirement
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. . and I got a 25c box of ca
nary seed . . . and I can’t get
out to get any . . Do you think
these sweet birds I love so we l l
will forgive me, or understand
how I have let them down?
But they did give me a nice
niece of suet to hang out there
for them . . . and anv of the
stores will give this to you so
please put some out so they
will not suffer . . I loved the
story about the birds, and wild
animals in the woods and the
forrests written by Charles
Elliott in Tuesday’s Atlanta
paper . . He is such a wonder- I
ful writer . . He just takes me
on all his hunting and fishing
trips because he writes ebou*
them in such away that I am
right there living every minute
of it with his party . . but I
see the broom and I won't be
long to any party long if I don’t
get to my job of ’est . .
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thought provoking and inter
esting talk on the contrasting
philosophies of Christianity
and communism, which was
appreciatively received by his
hearers.
Other visitors welcomed at
the club’s meeting were Ro
tarians Hulon Kitchens and
Corry Oakes of Monroe; Joe
Fox of Atlanta: and Channing
Cope.
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Ihe OltL 'UmE'b
“A sense of humor is what
makes you laugh at some
thing which would make yon
mad if it happened to you."