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Thursday, December 8, 1960
Contract Let For Georgia's
First Tourist Welcome Station
Contract for $46,348.25 has
been let to Construction En
terprises of Nashville, Ga., for
the construction of Georgia’s
first Tourist Welcome Station
to be located on U.S. Highway
301, near Sylvania, it was an
nounced by Jack Minter, di
rector of the Georgia Depart
ment o< Commerce.
Work will be started by mid-
December as soon as all tech
nical details have been com
pleted, including the posting of
a performance bond by the
contractor, Minter said. The
station, which will be operated
by the Commerce Department,
is expected to be completed and
ready for operation by March
1, 1961.
Although the successful low
bid of $46,348.25 was consider
ably higher than the $32,000
allocated originally to the de
parment for the station’s con
struction, the long-awaited pro
ject was made possible when
Gov. Ernest Vandiver agreed
to transfer $14,348.25 from the
state’s surplus fund to make
up the difference, it was point
ed out.
This was the second batch
of bids taken on the proposed
atation. In early October, bids
were rejected and a second call
was put out because the lowest
figure submitted then was
about $55,000. Plans for the
station were revised in an ef
fort to cut the construction
cost.
The proposed station, expect
ed to be the forerunner to oth
ers to be erected in Georgia in
future years, will be located on
a four-acre site about 14 miles
north of Sylvania on U. S. 301
and less than a mile south of
the Savannah River Bridge
connecting South Carolina. The
route is one of Georgia’s heav
iest traveled tourist thorough
fares and is often referred to
as “the short route to Florida.”
(An average of 5,227 motor
vehicles daily traveled over
NOTICE!
Kitchen’s Garage
Located on Highway 278, Will Close Out All
Business Transactions on December 17. This
Notice is To Let Customers Know That I Am
Closing My Business.
At A Later Date I Will Announce My Af
filation with Another Business Firm Here in
Covington.
Thank You For Your Patronage.
Gerald W. Kitchens
BREAKFAST
DINNER
And
SUPPER
Starting Monday, Dec. 12 Until Xmas
REGULAR BREAKFASTS
STEAM TABLE DINNERS
SUPPER SPECIALS
Steaks - All Sizes - Shrimp - Catfish
Hamburgers And Sandwiches.
OPEN WEDNESDAYS
Country Kitchen Is Happy To Announce
GEORGIA JENKINS
Will Be Back Monday, Dec. 12 To Serve And
Greet You. Come In And Say Hello.
Country Kitchen
202 Church St. Phone 786-7897
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
U. S. Highway 301 in 1959, of
which 58.7 per cent were out
of-state cars, records show.)
The proposed welcome sta
tion will be a one-story, rec
tangular-shaped, 2,200 square
foot structure built of concrete
and steel. It will have a lounge,
information room, products dis
play room, rest rooms and two
overhead - protected patios.
There also will be a parking
area for 40 cars and a spaci
ous area for ten picnic tables
outside.
Primary function of the sta
tion, which will be manned by
four employees of the State
Department of Commerce, will
be to offer every sort of hos
pitality it can to tourists who
stop there. This will include a
sales pitch about what the visi
tors might be missing if they
do not “linger a little longer in
Georgia,” according to Bill T.
Hardman, the Commerce De
partment’s Tourist Division
manager.
In addition to dispensing
courtesy and helpfulnes, con
crete things like Georgia-made
products, maps and travel in
formation, gifts, literature on
Georgia scenic attractions and
the like will be available to the
visitors, Hardman said.
GSCW Report
Shows Student
College Choice
Why do people make certain
decisions? What influences are
at work on high school students
to help them select a college?
These and similar questions
are behind a seven - year study
which has been conducted at
Georgia State College for Wo-
Tests Show
Shading Aids
Azalea Growth
Azaleas which bloom in
March to beautify hundreds of
Georgia communities may be
come even more beautiful as a
result of research conducted at
the College Experiment Station
of the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture.
Tests conducted by Dr. D. V.
Sweet, former assistant pro
fessor of horticulture at the
College Experiment Station in
Athens, showed striking dif
ferences in the frost hardiness
and flowering of azaleas grown
under full sun and various de
grees of shade.
Dr. Sweet grew azalea plants
of the Hino de Giri, Snow, and
Formosa varieties under full
sun and 30, 51, and 72 per
cent shade to investigate the
effect of light intensity in
Georgia on flowering, resistance
to cold, and growth. Two ex
periments were conducted over
a two-year period.
A noticeable increase in the
total amount of growth and in
the size of leaves was apparent
for all varieties in one-year-old
plants grown in 51 and 72 per
cent shade as compared to
plants grown in more intense
sunlight. A positive correlation
existed between increased
flower and leaf size and color
intensity with each increase in
the degree of shade.
Winter cold injury to late
growing terminals, both as leaf
burn and bud kill, varied be
tween treatments in all varie
ties tested. Many terminals of
plants grown under full sun
suffered complete kill from the
cold, but leaf and bud injury
noticeably decreased as the de
gree of shade was increased.
Two-year-old plants in the
second test responded to vari-
Cousins Loses
First Game
Last Friday night at the
Washington Street Gymnasium,
the R. L. Cousins Wolverines
were defeated by the state
champions of Washington, Geor
gia, the scores were boys 46-
27: girls 10-22.
The game, was very exciting,
not only because of the first
conference game, but because
of the spirit and fight among
the players.
The R. I. Cousins High
School Band was an added at
traction especially during the
half time when they performed
splendidly.
The next game the team will
play will be in Sparta, Decem
ber 16, 1960.
Douglas F. Benton
James O. Freeman
(Sports Reporters)
men by the Public Relations
Department, Freshmen and new
students have responded to
questionnaires each fall during
orientation week for the past
seven years. These students are
asked to rate 55 specific items
according to: no, slight, moder
ate or great importance, on the
questionnaire, “Why I Selected
GSCW”.
In this seven year study
trends have been established, as
some items are consistently
rated high. Other items indicate
interesting influences on stu
dents at a state supported col
lege and/or a woman’s college.
A report on this year’s survey
follows: The 55 items are ar
ranged in three groups:
1) Advantages and attraction
of college
‘Scholastic Standing of Col
lege’ received the landslide vote
of 267 out of a possible 344 as
; the item with the largest single
| number of “great importance”
I answers. Next in line were
i “Friendliness of Students and
j Faculty’ and ‘Outstanding
j Courses Offered in your Chosen
I Field’.
2) Personal Contact Influ
| ences.
Highest in this category was
I ‘Visit to College Campus’ with
‘Students of this College’ and
‘Alumnae of the College’ close
behind.
3) Publicity Influences.
The ‘Catalogue’ captured the
highest vote here followed by
“Viewbook’ and ‘Student Year
book’.
Other high influence items
selected at random were Types
of Students Who Attend This
I College, Training of Faculty,
Religious Emphasis, Size of
Student Body, Type of Com
munity in Which College Is Lo
cated, Cost Per Year, Guidance
Program, Mother, Job Place
ment for Graduates, and High
School Teacher.
The “write-in” influences re
flected varing interests: Medi
cal College Suggest GSCW, Fa
cilities of Language Depart
ment, Home Economics Pro
gram, Emphasis on Music, Suite
Arrangement in Dormitories,
that all important item Com
parison with Other Schools.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
ous degrees of shade in much
the same way as did the one
year-old plants.
A complete report of Dr.
Sweet’s study is given in Cir
cular N. S. 18. of the Georgia
Agricultural Experiment Sta
tions entitled, “The Effect of
Shade Treatments on Frost
Hardiness and Flowering of
Azaleas.”
There is no indication of
change in the Russian intention
to dominate the world, in the
view of William H. Draper,
Presidential Advisor on United
State defense. Writing in the
improvement and expansion?
“That’s what the newspapers
General Electric Defense Quar
terly, he says: “Russian atti
dues toward Berlin, toward the
two Germanys, toward disar
mament, have hardened despite
predictions of peace.”
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Groover Is
Elected Cerebral
Palsy President
Denmark Groover Jr., promi
nent Macon attorney, has been
elected president of United Cere
bral Palsy of Georgia, Inc officials
of the organization announced to
day.
Officers elected to serve with
Mr. Groover include: Mrs. Virginia
Russell, first vice-president: Dr.
John R. Fair, Augusta, second
vice-president; Dr. George S.
Whatley, Columbus, secretary; and
David J. Copeland. Atlanta, treas
urer.
United Cerebral Palsy is the
only national voluntary health
agency dedicated exclusively to
an over-all attack on the entire
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
problem of cerebral palsy, officials
of the state group revealed. United
Cerebral Palsy of Georgia, Inc.,
they explained, is composed of
representatives from local affilia
tes and is a part of the national
association.
One of the major purposes of
United Cerebral Palsy, according
to the By-Laws of the Corporation,
is to promote education and reha
bilitation of persons with cerebral
palsy and to subsidize profession
al training programs of all types
related to the problem of cerebral
palsy.
A short time ago Senator
Dirksen said his office had re
ceived ten thousand letters con
cerning the Forand bill, which
would give government - paid
medical, hospital and nursing
home services to beneficiaries
of the Social Security system.
He added that sentiment ran
three to one against the pro
posal.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
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All across the U. S. boys and girls and their parents are jumping
up and down at outdoor rebound tumbling centers and backyards.
It’s the nation’s newest and fastest growing recreation. It’s so
popular, in fact, even kangaroos are getting that extra bounce from
the sport. Here is “Trampy" matching jumps in Cedar Rapids,
lowa with George Nissen, former U. S. gym and diving champ anil
developer a quarter century ago of rebound tumbling equipmenti
The big question is “Who’s teaching whom?”
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