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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Ami PnWnhw
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Progress Without Tax
Increases Is Record
Os Gov. Luther Hodges
If Governor Luther Hodges of North
Carolina becomes Secretary of Commerce
in the new Cabinet as seems likely, he
will bring to the job a remarkable record
as a businessman-Governor. In fact, he has
raised practically everything in his State
except taxes.
His achievements in many fields are
recounted in an article in the December
Reader's Digest, “Does North Carolina
Governor Luthre Hodges of North
Carolina was named Secretary of
Commerce Saturday by President-
Elect John F. Kennedy.
Point the Way?”, which should be required
reading for all leaders and citizens con
cerned with rising taxes and government
spending.
“Every major category of worthwhile
activity in this State has risen sharply
during Hodges tenure,” says James Daniel,
the author. “Education expenditures, from
first grade through North Carolina’s ex
tensive network of State-supported colleges,
are up over 100 percent over 1950, while
social services have risen more than 125
percent.
“And all without a tax increase, because
North Carolina's growing prosperity is
rapidly expanding the tax base.”
Hodges has achieved this success by
a blend of science and salesmanship that
might be emulated elsewhere. He has in
duced businessmen of his State to invest
millions in scientific research and also to
accompany him at their own expense on
trips as far away as Europe to sell investors
on the virtues of his State as a site for
new plants.
All in all his career has been remark
able for a man born 62 years ago in a one
room cabin built by his father, a tenant
tobacco farmer, and is proof again that
our country is a land of opportunity and
also that when problems arise, destiny
sometimes provides a problem-solver.
"Hagerstown Plan" To
Report On Closed TV
Educational Program
The eyes of the nation will be focused
shortly on Hagerstown and Washington
County, Maryland, when evaluation of the
five-year “Hagerstown Plan” of visual edu
cation via closed circuit TV gets under way.
Early next month, parents and teachers
of the nearly 20,000 grade school young
sters, who have been the guinea pigs in
the most extensive experiment in TV
teaching yet undertaken, will meet at a
public hearing to say what they think
about it. Later, the County Commissioners
will decide whether or not to continue this
electronic instruction. Some time next year,
and presumably before the experiment ends
next July, experts from the Ford Founda
tion which underwrote the TV program to
the tune of one million dollars will make
their own study of the results — which
will doubtless be of absorbing interest to
educators and parents everywhere.
In advance of these events, and in spite
of the opinion of at least one commissioner
that television teaching is making the hu
man instructors lazy, School Superintend
ent William M. Brish, a TV-teaching en
thusiast, and the School Board have asked
the County for funds to continue the pro
gram.
While it will cost $90,000 to continue
it through the second half of next year,
and SIBI,OOO for 1962. the Board points out
that it will cost more to drop TV teaching
than to continue it — to say nothing of
scrapping the elaborate TV equipment and
the four-and-a-half years of specialized
experience gained by the instructors and
technicians. All posible savings, the Board
estimates, would be more than wiped out
by salaries of the additional 25 junior and
senior high school teachers that would be
needed, while 105 more specially trained
teachers would be required to provide in
struction in music, art and foreign lan
guages that is now given by TV entirely.
Thus, we suspect that Washington County
will endorse — and continue — the Hagers
town Plan, and without any need or de
sire for Federal assistance or interference
in educating its youth.
Is there anything on this earth, from
squalling triplets to fresh garbage, or from
new-mown hay to barrels of beer, that
hasn’t been loaded into a station wagon
and moved?
I imagine that a crack salesman does
M percent of his job before he presents
himself to the prospect.
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Associate Editor
'MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
I Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Ciass.
Safety Council Urges
Seat Belt For Holiday
Auto Traffic Driving
Christmas gift suggestion for the man
who has everything — almost:
Buy him (or her, if your friend’s a hep
woman driver) an auto seat belt. It could
mean a really merry Christmas for some
one —by saving a life!
“The motorist who has everything (ex
cept a seat belt, that is) could wind up
with nothing but trouble if he gets in a
traffic accident,” said the National Safety
Council.
The Council, a nongovernmental agency
organized in 1913 to prevent all kinds of
accidents, heartily endorses seat belts at
Christmas — or any other time of the
year, for that matter.
“Seat belts,” it said, ‘are the No. 1 de
vice now available to reduce the number
of traffic deaths and injuries.
‘Use of seat belts by every driver —
and the day may come when this will be
nearer reality—could cut the traffic death
toll by 5,000 a year, the number of injuries
60 per cent.
“Wish a friend a truly merry Christmas
this year. Give him a life-saving seat belt.”
(And while you’re at it, why not take
that idea one step further. Buy belts for
yourself and your family, too).
Distractions Are Over
For The Year- Now
It's Back To Work
The American people have been ex
posed to an extremity of distractions this
year. There was the tumultous and un
precedented meeting of chiefs of state at
the United Nations, which dominated the
headlines for weeks. During it and after it
was the long drawn out presidential cam
paign.
The UN meeting is over, and the Presi
dential decision has been reached. The
congratulations of the American people
have gone out to the energetic and deter
mined President-Elect who will be the
youngest man ever elected to the office
and the second youngest ever to serve.
More important, John Kennedy has the
profound hopes of the people that he will
find within himself the strength, resolu
tion and wisdom to discharge the duties
of the most difficult and exhausting job
in the world.
Now, it is time to get back to work.
The basic strength of this nation does not
lie in the leaders, important as they are.
It lies in the people. It is the thinking of
the people, the decisions they reach, that
will determine whether a free, proud and
strong America is to be preserved or lost.
Chief Victim Os
Christmas Fires
Are Youngsters
How many persons will die in fires
during the Christmas holiday?
“Not a one, necessarily,” the National
Safety Council declared today. “The grim
picture of frequent fires at Christmas does
not need to be — not if people take a few
precautions.”
The Council cited these facts about fires:
1. More than 1,000 persons died last
year in December — month when most
fire deaths occurred.
2. Chief victims are the very young —
children under 5 — and persons 75 years
of age or more.
3. In recent years, more than half a
million homes have been struck by fire.
4. Fire losses in the home will total more
than 300 million dollars this year.
To keep yourself and your loved ones
from becoming fire victims, the National
Safety Council makes these life-saving
suggestions:
— Don’t let gift wrappings accumulate
so they become a fire hazard.
— Don’t smoke in bed. And at holiday
get-togethers, use deep ash trays that will
hold burning cigarettes securely.
— Check your Christmas tree wiring
for possible shorts. Better to buy a new
string of lights than to risk having tragedy
visit your home.
— Don’t leave the Christmas tree lights
burning if you’re away from home or out
of the room for long.
— Don't put your tree up too early.
And don’t leave it up so long it gets dried
out. Keep it moist.
— Metallic Christmas trees are fine —
if you use the floor floodlights most manu
facturers recommend. Don’t risk a death
dealing short by putting a string of lights
on a metallic tree.
Silence can’t be misquoted, but it can
be misinterpreted. — Kin Hubbard.
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SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
God’s Promise of a Saviour
Bible Material: Isaiah 9;
Matthew 4:12 - 17, 23-25; Ga
lations 4:4-7
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
11:1-9: Memory Selection; For
to us a child is born, to us a son
is given; and the government
will be upon his shoulder, and
his name will be called “Won
derful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace.” Isaiah 9:6.
We understand the Bible on
ly when we realize that through
all sixty-six books runs, like a
scarlet thread, a continuing ser
ies of great themes. Chief
among these themes, of course,
is, in the Old Testament, the
promise of a Saviour, and, in
the New Testament, the de
claration that this promise has
been fulfilled.
The promise of a Saviour
really begin in Genesis 3:15,
where the declaration is made
that the seed of the woman
shall bruise the head of the ser
pent. This promise was renew
ed to Abraham. In Jeremiah
31:31-34, we encounter a new
covenant wherein God declares,
through the mouth of this great
prophet, that He will make a
new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house
of Judah. This covenant will
be more than words. It will be
law written on “the inward
parts” of the people and “in
their hearts.” “And they shall
teach no more every man his
neighbor, and every man his
brother, saying. Know the Lord:
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the
greatest of them, saith the Lord:
for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin
no more.”
Here we encounter the theme
that as religious consciousness
develops in the hearts of men,
it becomes an inner experience
rather than an external one.
Our lesson last week, with its
setting forth of Jeremiah’s pro
clamation of the new covenant,
prepares us for today’s lesson
wherein the promise in the
definite form of a heavenly fi
gure is held up for our contem
plation.
Ahaz was king of Judah when
Isaiah made his prophecy. He
brews to the north; the land of
Zebulun and Naphtali, were in
deed walking in darkness. The
Assyrian armies were threaten
ing the national life of t h e
northern kingdom and would
in a few years carry the people
off into captivity. But there was
a light shining in the kingdom
of Judah.
That light was the promise of
better days to come. But there
would be centuries of darkness
and semidarkness before the
Light of the World came in the
Person of Christ.
God had blessed Judah with
a growing population. The
statement in the text “Thou
hast ... not increased the
joy” is a baffling passage and
probably a mistranslation. We
are safe in concluding that it
should read, “Thou hast ... in
creased their joy”; for the sen
tence goes on to say the people
rejoiced before God, “as men
rejoice when they divide the
spoil.”
In every passage of Scripture
we examine, let us always bear
in mind that the characteristic
mood of a true believer is the
mood of joy.
On this occasion the nation
rejoiced because God had bro
ken the yoke of the opressor's
burden, the staff of his shoul
der. and the rod with which he
had cruelly scourged them. All
this was put aside when the
j Saviour came. The confusion of
battle “and garments rolled in
blood” would be “with burning
and fuel of fire.”
Did war cease with the
coming of Jesus Christ into the
world? No, but we believe that
because he came, a holy enter
prise, supported by heaven, was
initiated which will some day
result in permanent peace for
the whole world. Throughout
its history, the Christian church
has looked back on these pro
mises in the Book of Isaiah as
prophecies of th^ blessings God
will eventually give to h i s
faithful. We must never try to
thrust a calendar into God’s
hands, or to give Him a sche
dule with the implication that
events must transpire in accor
dance with our plans. God has
a divine plan. He did not even
disclose to Jesus when that
plan would come into consum
mation (Mark 13-32), but it
certainly will.
This conviction is basic to
Christian faith.
Here we have a description
of the coming of the world’s
Saviour.
He will come not as a heav
enly Being descending from the
skies and dazzling men with his
splendor. Instead, he will ap
pear later in the form of a
humble Child, born in a man
ger. His parents were of t h e
seed and lineage of David, peo
ple of fine spiritual background
who, probably for generations,
had lived as common working
people among their fellows.
The Biblical promise was.
“the government shall be up on
his shoulder.” The Babe lying in
the manger has, according to
our faith, become King of the
world and of the universe. He
was the Word made flesh of
whom John wrote: “All things
were made by him; and without
him was not anything made
that was made” (John 1:3).
We have our governments,
presided over by heads of state,
but above these is the King of
Kings.
Observe the terms by which
Isaiah characterizes this com
ing Messiah. First of all, he will
be Wonderful — that is, divine
and full of dazzling wonder. He
will be Counselor, or the one in
whom abides perfect wisdom.
Individuals and nations will
disregard his wisdom at their
jeopardy.
The coming Saviour will be
“the mighty God.” The Hebrew
word “El” is used to designate
“the mighty God,” or “God Al
mighty.” Here is a clear teach
ing of the deity of Jesus Christ.
He Is, as the Prayer Book puts
it, “God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God; Begot
ten, not made; Being of one
substance with the Father; By
whom all things were made.’’
Take the doctrine of the deity
of Christ out of the Christian
religion, and we have left a
great Teacher and a commend
able system of ethics. But we
have no religion. Thhere is no
redemption apart from a Sav
iour, who shares with the Fa
ther the power to redeem men’s
souls.
The Father and the Son are
one; hence we read that this
Child is “The everlasting Fa
ther.” He is “The Prince of
Peace."
How we strive through the
United Nations and through
hundreds of associated societies
to establish world peace. These
efforts are all good but they are
not good enough. The estab
lishing of wor' ’ peace requires
Christian faith and devotion for .
its complete success. I
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
LIBERTY HALL
Southern elegance and dig
nity are a tradition here. Al
though her days of glory are
long past, the atmosphere sur
rounding Liberty Hall still por
trays one of charm and hospi
tality once displayed by her
master, Alexander H. Stephens.
The antebellum home of the
vice president of the Confed
eracy is located in the Alexan
der H. Stephens Memorial State
Park near Crawford. Liberty
Hall was so named because Ste
phens did as he pleased there
and wanted friends to enjoy the
same freedom. Now completely
restored, the white columned
mansion is very much as it was
in the days when he entertain
ed some of the South’s greatest
leaders — visitors such as Her
schel V. Johnson, Joseph E.
Brown and Robert Toombs.
The bedrooms, parlor, li
brary, study, tramp room and
kitchen contain much of the
original, antique furniture. Al
so open for visitor inspection
are the wine cellar and slave
quarters.
The Confederate Museum lo
cated at this park contains re
lics, documents, letters, diaries
and many other items of Step-
New Marketing Plan Needed
By Georgia Turkey Producers
Georgia growers of the na
tion’s traditional holiday bird,
the turkey, must come up with
a new marketing scheme if they
ever are to regain the favora
ble position in the state mar
ket which they enjoyed in the
late 1940’5, in the opinion of
W. W. Harper, associate agri
cultural economist at the Geor
gia Experiment Station of the
University of Georgia College
of Agriculture.
Mr. Harper, whose study of
marketing Georgia turkeys was
recently published as a bulle
tin of the Georgia Agricultural
Experiment Stations, believes
Georgia producers can reclaim
much of the state market with
an aggressive and well co-or
dinated marketing plan.
Growing turkeys for profit
isn’t easy and Mr. Harper
points out that a Georgia grow
er must solve many problems
to be a successful commercial
producer. The big problem for
Georgia growers, however, is
the competition in the retail
market between Georgia
grown, fresh-dressed birds and
frozen birds which are ship
ped into Georgia in large
quantities from western states.
Since surveys show that
Georgia homemakers prefer
fresh-dressed over frozen tur
key when they can get it,
Georgia growers have a distinct
advantage over out-of-state
producers, provided they can
market birds at competitive
prices. Because of their large
volume, out-of-state producers
now hold the edge, but Mr.
Harper believes Georgia grow
ers can regain their former
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hens’ political life. 'Personal ef
fects of Mr. Stephens are exhi
bited and many of the letters
written by him during the war
years are documented here.
There are uniforms of the
men in grey, muskets, swords
and over 300 other Confederate
items. The curator is on duty
daily to narrate the different
phases of the War Between the
States.
The Recreational Demonstra
tion Area provides 737 acres of
space for organized group
camping. Facilities on the lake
land wooded area are sufficient
I for 135 campers.
1 Another area, consisting of
238 acres, is splendidly equip
ped for swimming, picnicking
and hiking.
The Alexander H. Stephens,
near Crawfordville, is about
100 miles east of Atlanta and
60 miles west of Augusta,
reached by State Highway 12
or U. S. 278.
Visiting hours at the Mu
seum and Liberty Hall are 9:00
a. m. until 5:00 p. m.
For further information con
cerning the Park, Write the
Dept, of State Parks or t h e
Dept, of Commerce, State Cap
itol, Atlanta.
position by instituting a vigor
ous sales program for fresh
dressed turkey among retail
stores.
An industry-wide organiza
tion is needed to conduct such
a program, Mr. Harper says,
because growers, in order to
get and keep the cooperation of
retail food stores, must provide
retailers with a dependable
source of top quality birds. But
since Georgia commercial egg
producers used such an orga
nization to capture the Geor
gia egg market he sees no rea
son why turkey growers, with
a similar organization, can’t
enjoy similar success.
TOO Taxes On
A Single Egg
The Tax Foundation recently
counted the number of “hidden
taxes” that are imposed on
items in every-day use. It found
that there are 100 taxes on an
egg, 116 on a man’s suit, 150
on a woman’s hat, 151 on a loaf
of bread and 600 on a house!
In case you’re wondering who
ultimately pays these taxes, the
answer is simple. You do!
DIVERSITY
In addition to producing 7 to
8 billion board feet of lumber
a year, Southern Pine lumber
manufacturers are also sup
plying nearly 15 percent of the
South’s total raw material for
paper production—solely from
sawmill residue.
Thursday- December 8.
Letters To
The Editor
December 6, 1960
To The Editors
The Covington News
The Newton County Blood
Program Committee is deeply
appreciative of your splendid
cooperation in disseminating
information in news stories, ex
horting and encouraging the
citizenry in editorials, and
lending moral support when our
own spirits begin to lag in this
effort to carry our own weight
as a county in the Red Cross
Blood Program.
Marshall R. Elizer, Chair
man Newton County Blood
Program American Red
Cross
Hon. Belmont Dennis
Editor and Publisher
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Dennis:
Thank you for the recent
publicity on the 1961 New
March of Dimes campaign.
The current campaign is a
big job for Georgians and the
cooperation of news media is
necessary and greatly appre
ciated.
Please call on us when we
can heln you in any way.
Sincerely,
Jack Minter
United Nations, New York
Mr. Belmont Dennis, Editor
The Covington News
Dear Editor:
Thanks to your readers’ gen
erosity, and to the outstanding
support your newspaper gave
the Trick or Treat for UNICEF
program in your community,
1961 will be a better year for
needy children in many parts
of the world.
The Halloween collection fi
gure $300.00 you recently pub
lished will translate itself into
any one of the following in
terms of aid given by the
United Nations Children’s
Fund:
— The vaccine to protect 30,-
। 000 children from tuberculosis:
a daily glass of milk for 7,500
school children for 4 weeks;
the penicillin to cure 6,000
children of yaws, a crippling
tropical disease; the antibio
tics to save 1,500 children from
the blindness of trachoma; the
DDT to protect 2,400 children
against malaria for a year; the
sulfone to treat 300 young lep
rosy victims successfully for
3 years: 120,000 vitamin cap
sules for children suffering
from malnutrition.
Please share the assurance of
our heartfelt gratitude with
your readers and with your
staff.
Yours most sincerely,
Victor de Keyserling
Director of Publicity
Senator Byrd recently point
ed out that gasoline taxes now
total almost 50 per cent of the
retail price of the fuel. He add
ed: “Highway users are paying
these tremendous sums to build
a network of modern, high
speed state and Federal high
ways. I am not altogether con
vinced that they are getting
their money’s worth. I am, in
fact, gravely suspicious that
some of their money is being
wasted in gingerbread design
and extravagances and, what
is worse, some of it disappear
ing in loose administrative
pra ctic es, irregularities and
profiteering. And the costs, far
from going down or even re
maining the same, keep going
up and up.”