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VOLUME 96
Covington Service Guild
Enters National Contest
The Covington Service Guild re
cently received acknowledgement
from Washington, D. C. of its
official entry in the 1959-60 Com
munity Achievement Contest, co
sponsored by the General Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs and The
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
The club is competing with
thousands of other federated wo
men’s clubs throughout the coun
try for $65,000 in prizes, includ
ing a top national prize of SIO,OOO.
All cash awards won by clubs
must be spent for the benefit of
the community, according to con
test rules.
The contest is an incentive for
all GFWC to provide leadership
in meeting community needs. It
places great emphasis on work
ing with the community, through
cooperation with local civic, gov
ernmental and social groups in
all phases of planning and execut
ing community projects.
As the basis for judging, every
club must submit a written report
by March 1, 1960, detailing its
community achievement between
the dates of June 1, 1958 and
June 1, 1960.
Mrs. Moncey Pratt, local club
chairman for the Community Ac
hievement Contest, reports that
the Covington Service Guild entry
is in the form of a scrapbook, and
features the home of the G u i 1 d
Kindergarten, The Little Red
Schoolhouse. Its story is told,
from the time the idea was born,
until the curtains were hung, and
the school bell rang for the first
time, calling Kindergarteners to
school on opening day. Attrac-
Mrs.WCGoode
Dies in Texas
It is with much regret that
local friends learn of the death
of Mrs. W. Campbell Goode,
on Sunday night, in Houston,
Texas. Funeral services were
held for Mrs. Goode on Tues
day morning at 11:00 o’clock,
at the Houston Presbyterian
Church Chapel, with Dr. King
in charge.
Martin Goode, brother-in
law of the deceased, had ar
rived in Houston by plane on
Sunday afternoon, and was
with his brother at Hermann
Memorial Hospital, where she
was a patient.
The News joins many other
friends in extending deepest
sympathy to the bereaved
family.
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HOMER MOBLEY. 215 Lee Street, Covington, proudly displays
his "Christmas Cactus" flower that bloomed a little late this year.
Mr. Mibley says that the flower brings forth its bright red blooms
for about a month's time each year. There were thousands of blooms
on the plant when this photograph was made last week.
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The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
tive color photos, made of t h e
charming interior of the building,
its 32 adorable occupants for
this term, and the picturesque
setting and surrounding area, high
light each page of the scrapbook.
The contest entry also contains
reports of other successful action
to meet community needs, with
achievements including other var
ious projects which add up to
hundreds of volunteer service hrs.
for the 22 members each year.
Serving with Mrs. Pratt in pre
paring the contest entry were
Mrs. Frank Stone, Mrs. Guy
Evans. Mrs. S. M. Hay and Mrs.
Everett Pratt.
The Covington Service Guild
was a participant in the f i r s t
Community Achievement Contest
which was held in 1954-56, and re
ceived the distinction of winning
second place in Class A, Georgia
Club*. A cash award was pre
sented to the club by The Sears-
Roebuck Foundation at the GFWC
State Convention in May 1956.
Fred L. Kinney
Succumbs At
Covington Home
Funeral services for F r e d L.
Kinney, 75, were held Saturday.
March 5 at 11 a.m. at the Wes
leyan Methodist Church with Rev.
Ralph Day and the Rev. Clyde
Hicks, officiating. Interment was
in Social Circle.
Mr. Kinney, who had been in
declining health for sometime,
died Wednesday night, March 2
at his residence. He was a Bap
tist, but attended services at the
Wesleyan Methodist Church along
with his wife until his health fail
ed. Mrs. Kinney passed away one
month ago.
Survivors include two sons, Tom
Kinney of Covington and James
Kinney of Atlanta; one daughter,
Miss Jeanie Kinney of Covington;
two brothers, J. W. Kinney of
Pensacola. Fla., and Dewey Kin-,
ney of Greensboro, Ga., one sis-1
ter, Mrs. Allene Crawley of Greens
boro, Ga.', and four grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers were
C. B. Kinney, Austin Kinney, Boyd
Carithers, Hugh Kesler, O. R.
Kendrick and A. A. Bledsoe.
The NEWS extends deepest sym
pathy to the members of the
bereaved family. The E. L. Al
mand Company of Social Circle
was in charge of arrangements. ■
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PRINCIPALS OF POST 32 AMERICAN LEGION and Auxiliary's
Annual Birthday Banquet are shown grouped at the head table
at the Legion Hall, where the event was held Tuesday evening.
Left to right: W. J. Dickey, Sr„ vice-commander of Post 32,- 4th
District Auxiliary Presdent, Mrs. Ty Cason; Dr. Lee Harwell,
adjvjant; Mrs. Lewis White, Auxiliary treasurer; Mrs. George
Sumner. Auxiliary president; Bill Hoffman, Jr., vice-commander;
Mass of Angels
Service For
Cosgrove Infant
The Mass of The Angels for
Eleanor Brosnan Cosgrove, two
and a half year old twin
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Cosgrove of Stamford, Conn,
■will be held this (Thursday)
I morning at 10:00 o’clock, at
the Cathedral of Christ the
King on Peachtree St., in At
lanta. Msgr. Joseph Cassidy
will officiate , with interment
in Westview.
Little Eleanor, who was
strickec Monday afternoon
with influenzal meningitis,
was taken to Stamford Me
morial Hospital, where her con
dition grew steadily worse un
til her death at about three
o’clock Tuesday morning.
In addition to her parents,
Eleanor is survied by two
sisters, her twin, Renee, and
Paula: her paternal grand
mother Mrs. Paul Cosgroce of
Atlanta; and maternal grand
mother. Mrs. p . E. Callaway,
Sr.
The News joins hosts of
other friends in extending
deepest sympathy to the fam
ily in their bereavement.
“In the periods of prosper
ity, most people make more
money than they earn and
spend more than they make.”
—Tit-Bits, London.
Georgians Worked More, Spent
More, Saved More in 1959
Almost no matter how you meas
ure it, 1959 was a banner year
for Georgia.
The Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta has been measuring Geor
gia’s 1959 economic progress. In
its January Monthly Review, one
of its economic analysts, Robert
M. Young, reports that recession
born downtrends gave way to re
newed prosperity, and many in
dicators rose to record peaks.
Georgians worked more, spent
more, and saved more. Season
ally adjusted nonfarm employ
ment passed the pre-recession
high in November 1958, and has
risen steadily ever since. Tax
receipts indicate retail sales for
the year ended September 1959
were more than 10 percent ahead
of the preceding year. In the
first ten months of 1959, sales of
ordinary life insurance policies
were 16 percent above the volume
of the same period in 1958. Be
tween October 1958 and October
1959, outstanding shares at sav
ings and loan associations rose 10
percent, and time deposits at
banks which are members of the
Federal Reserve System rose 6
percent.
Georgia farmers, however, have
been plagued by lower prices for
their products. Their receipts in
the first three quarters of 1959
were 2 5 percent below the com-
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1960
School Hearing Set For
LaGrange Friday, 10 A.M.
The Sibley Committee of the
General Assembly on schools
in Georgia, of which Robert O.
Arnold of Covington is a mem
ber, will hold its Fourth Con
gressional District hearing
Friday, March 11 at 10 A. M.
at the Troup County Court
house, LaGrange.
Homer M. Rankin. Georgia
Press Association President and
! assistant to Chairman Sibley,
dispatched the following Tele
gram to Belmont Dennis, Pub
lisher and Editor of The NEWS
Wednesday:
Belmont Dennis
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
The General Assembly Com
mittee on schools will hold its
4th congiegational District
hearing in LaGrange at the
Troup County Courthouse at 10
A. M. Friday March 11. It hopes
to hear testimony from city
and county officials labor or
ganizations chambers of com
merce and other business or
ganizations Farm Civic womens
and school organizations in
cluding PTA and members of
county and city school boards.
The committee will appreci
ate your properly publicizing
this in order that these and all
members of the general public
will have the opportunity to be
present.
Homer M. Rankin
Asst to Chairman John A.
Sibley.
parable 1958 period. Livestock
producers were hardest h ; ‘, chief
ly the important North Georgia
broiler growers.
A major reason for Georgia’s
current high level of economic
activity is the turnabout in manu
facturing. After declining from
the end of 1955, manufacturing
employment began rising again
in May 1958. By October 1959 it
had regained the mid-1957 level
and was only 5 percent below the
pre-recession peak of mid-1955.
The decline in November 1959 re
sulted from a cutback in auto
mobile production which followed
the steel strike. Food processing
was the only major manufactur
ing category io employ fewer
workers in the average month of
1959 than in 1958.
Man-hours worked increased
even more than employment, in
dicating not only more paychecks,
but fatter ones.
The highlight of the manufactur.
ing upturn has been the new
strength shown by the tex
tile industry. Apparently Geor
gia’s most widespread industry,
it also is the largest, providing
almost a third of the stag’s manu
facturing jobs.
Textile mill employment has in
creased almost steadily for fif
teen months, reversing a down-
Director Pete Wheeler, guest speaker, of the Ga. State Veterans
Servic Dept.; 4th District Lgion Commander Ty Cason; local
Post Commander Charles C. King, Jr.; Mrs. John Chesnut. Auxil
iary secretary; Bernard Greer, charter member and past com
mander of Post 32; and James Vansant of the Veteans' Service
Dept.
Covington Man
Wins Prize For
Farmer Letter
Birmingham, Ala. — Chann
ing Cope, of Covington, Ga.,
has won first pri-e for his let
ter appearing in The P ^gres
sive Fanner’s March ’Country
Voices” column.
In his letter he says:
Down our waj the pine tree
has become so valuable for
papermaking as well as for
lumber that no one dares to
treat the forest with anything
but respect. Twenty years ago,
or even 10. no one worried
about a forest fire and it was
customary to “burn the woods”
in late winter in order to bring
on early wiregrass.
With all the new grasses,
Georgia has year-round ground
cover. With Ky. 31 fescue,
which I brought to Georgia in
1945, in North Georgia, and
Pensacola Bahia grass for
South Georgia, the land is
green; and we can relax.
Net result can be seen in
the color of the rivers which
drain Georgia.
Ruthie and I have been tak
ing it easy at Yellow River.
My year-round pastures still
maintain about 65 brood cows
and their offspring. Our kud
zu continues to furnish fall
grazing. The spot where you
and I stood when you got the
idea for your Reader’s Digest
article has now been in kud
zu 29 years.
Channing Cope,
Newton County, Georgia
Porterdale Baptist
Music Director Resigns
Mr. Fred Connell of Deca
tur, Georgia resigned as Mu
sic Director of Porterdale Bap
tist Church last Sunday night
after serving for four and a
half years.
Mr. Connell stated that he
was going to another field of
service as his reason for leav
ing Porterdale. He has been
called as music director of the
Liberty Baptist Church, Lil
burn, Georgia.
trend that started back in 1951.
Here, too, the increase in man
hours has exceeded the increase
in the number employed.
Many other factors also helped
turn Georgia's economy upward.
In the first ten months of 1959.
13 percent more construction con
tracts were awarded than in the
same part of 1958; new business
es were started at a much faster
rate than in 1958, and industrial
development continued, with abju
S6O million being invested in major
new and expanded plants during
the first three quarters of t 1 e
year. Both state and federal
governmental activities were
stepped up. providing an average
of 5,000 additional jobs during the
first ten months.
Porterdale
Methodists
Set Revival
PORTERDALE — The Com-
I mission on Membership and
I Evangelism of the Julia R. Por
ter Memorial Methodist Church
in Porterdale announces a
forthcoming revival to be held
April 24 - 29. In preparation
for the special services, a cot
tage prayer meeting will be
held each of seven weeks prior
to this date of the beginning
service. The first of these was
held at the home of Rev. and
Mrs. H. H. Dillard on Tuesday
evening, March 8.
Preaching for the series of
meeting will be the Rev. Larry
Bowman of Eatonton, Georgia.
The Rev. Homer Brownlow of
Stone Mountain, Georgia will
conduct the song services each
day.
Visitors Night will be observ
ed on Sunday evening and
throughout this Lenten Sea
son, particular emphasis will be
placed on Evangelism in all
phases of the church's activi
ties.
Porterdale P-TA
Postpones The
March Meeting
PORTERDALE — The Parent
Teacher Association of Porter
dale Junior High School will
not hold a March meeting on
the third Thursday because of
Spring vacation from school
and the probable absence of
most teachers during that per
iod. However, all members are
reminded that officers will be
elected and installed at t h e
April meeting, which indicates
that it will be a most important
meeting.
Town Os Oxford Hard - Hit By Ice And Sleet Storm
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This Paper Is Covington’s
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
Many Hear
Bishop Henry
“Religion is not how we live,
but why we live the way we
do,’’ said The Right Rev. M.
George Henry, Bishop of West
ern North Carolina, who is con
ducting a five day Preaching
Mission this week at the Epis
copal Church of the Good Shep
herd in Covington.
Bishop Henry opened h i s
series of sermons with the
topic “What is Man?” “Man is
a creature - created by God,”
he said “and he can only func
tion properly by responding to
God’s will.” Man is the only
moral animal - or creature -
created by God, therefore, man
is the only creature which can
sin.
And Sinful Man is born into
a Sinful World. Man is sinful
by nature. Sin however, is not
our behaviour, but our lack of
response to God’s two primary
laws — To Love God with ail
our being, and To Love our
Neighbor as ourself.
“How do I know God?” was
discussed in two parts by Bis
hop Henry, who emphasized the
“Good News of the Gospel”
which is the fact that God loves
us in spite of our sin. Be
cause of his'love God has given
man the free will to choose
how he will respond to God’s
love - or if he will respond.
The series of talks leads up
to the question “How Do I
receive Salvation?” which will
be discussed on Friday, the
final service of the Preaching
Mission.
The topic Thursday night will
be “What has God Done?”
The public is cordially in
vited to attend these services
at 7:30 each evening and to par
ticipate in the fellowship per
iod following in the Parish
House, according to the Rev.
Peyton Splane, rector.
J. H. Barksdale
Former Resident
Covington, Dies
John Hcnr,T Bf ksdale, 80. of
2131 Beech Avenue, Macon, died
in a Savannah Hospital Monday,
February 29 after a short illness.
He had been a Central of Geor
gia Railroad engineer for 43 years
before he retired. He had lived
in Macon for 23 years and before
that time had lived in Covington.
Born in Washington County, he
was the son of the late William
Dale Barksdale and Martha Vlr-1
ginia Palmer Barksdale.
He was a member of Cherokee
Heights Methodist Church and
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers and Firemen.
Funeral services were held at
the Chanel of Hart’s Mortuary on
Wednesday, March 2 and burial
was in the Covington Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Felton Lavender
Willard Barksdale, Wade Barks
dale, Virgil Smith, B. T. Sandifer,
Goodloe Grier and Steve Polk.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Pearl Shy of Macon;
two sons. Dr. John H. Barksdale
of Lantant, Florida, and Dr. Ed
gar W. Barksdale of Atlanta; a'
sister, Mrs. Sallie Veal of Warner-1
Robins, Ga., and 8 grandchildren.
The NEWS extends deepest sym
pathy to the members of the be-1
reaved family.
NUMBER 10
Wilson Knight
Funeral Today
At 4 O'Clock
Wilson Knight, 70, of RFD
I, Covington, died at a private
hospital Monday after a lin
gering illness. Funeral servi
ces for Mr. Knight, who was a
native of Morgan County, will
be held today, (Thursday),
March 10, at 4 p.m. at t h e
Julia A. Porter Methodist
Church in Porterdale with
Rev. H. H. Dillard officiating.
He will be assisted in the ser
vices bv Rev. Charles Moody.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Wilson Knight, four sons. Re
lious Knight, J. L. Knight,
Jack Knight, Plez Knight all
of Covington; three daughters,
Mrs. G. W. Cardell, Social
Circle; Mrs. Charlie Collis,
Mrs. Turner Christian both of
Covington; 14 grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Liber
ty Cemetery, Porterdale., with
Caldwell and Cowan Funeral
Home in charge of arrange
ments. Serving as pall bearers
will be David Peters. Leondas
Stargel, Jr.. John Chapman,
Larry Cardell, Jerry Collis and
Lawrence Knight.
The N'EWb joins the many
friends of the family in extend
ing aeepest sympathy to th^m
in their bereavement.
Mrs. Callahan Is
Named District
Pilot Chairman
Mrs. Doro’hv M. Callahan of
the Pilot Club of Covington h s
been appointed district chair
man of the Coordinating Com
mittee of Pilot International
for 1960-61.
The appointment was an
nounced by Dr. Vilda Shuman,
governor of District I. The new
committee appointments ap
pear in the March issue of THE
PILOT LOG. official publica
tion of the international organ
ization of executive business
and professional women. THE
LOG also outlines the work to
be undertaken by Pilot during
the coming year under the di
rection of Mrs. Bobbie Burn
ham of Albuquerque, N. M.
president - elect, who announc
ed that the theme for the year
will be “Faith and Undei -
j standing - Our Great Resour
■ ces.”
As district chairman, Mrs.
1 Callahan will have charge of
projection of committee work
at the district convention to be
held April 22-24 in Savannah,
Georgia.
Mrs. Callahan is a charter
member of the Pilot Club of
Covington, serving as its first
secretary. She is currently serv
ing as president of the local
Club. She has attended two dis
trict conventions, one Fall
Council and the International
Convention in Chicago in July.
1959.
Continuing major emphasis
will be given by more than 400
clubs and nearly 12,000 mem
bers of Pilot International to
community service projects. In
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