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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Aad Publish**
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant io Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Federal Government Has
Socked Three Gas Taxes
On Motorists Since 1951
The ostrich is a much smarter bird
than he gets credit for being. Over the
centuries he has been an object of ridicule
from those who think an ostrich tries to
hide from trouble by burying his head
in the sand.
Now for the truth about this not so
foolish bird. He happens to be a tall crea
:ure — ranging as high as eight feet from
the ground. He inhabits open desert coun
try, where he stands out conspicuously
on the landscape.
So when he senses any danger, this
clever bird crouches down on those long
legs of his and presses his head against
the sand until he blends into the scenery
and becomes almost invisible from a dis
tance.
U. S. motorists would be a lot better
off today if they had learned to imitate
the ostrich years ago. They, too, have a
way of sticking out on the landscape. At
least they have been targets for excessive
gasoline taxes over the last 30 years, and
they haven’t yet found an effective way
to protect themselves — even by hiding.
Motorists were certainly in plain sight
back in 1959 when they got stuck with
another increase in the federal gasoline
tax — the third since 1951. The rate of
this tax was boosted to four cents per
gallon on the claim that additional money
was needed to meet a deficit in financing
the national highway program.
But the motorists were promised that
the added cent of tax was only temporary,
and that it would expire on June 30, 1961.
After that date, they were assured, the
highway program would get a big shot
in the arm by the application to its support
of receipts from a portion of the federal
taxes on cars and automotive parts —
motorist-contributed revenue that is not
now being spent for roads.
This sounded just dandy to motorists —
the more so because the transfer of funds
scheduled to take place after the temporary
gasoline tax expired would actually make
possible the spending of an additional $225
million each year on the road program.
But now Congress is being pressured
to repudiate its 1959 promise to the motor
ists and keep thattemporary added gas
oline tax in efffect.
Another fact about the ostrich: Never
antagonize one because when aroused he
knows how to use those powerful legs of
his. He is a fearsome kicker.
It's too late now for the U.S. motorist
to hide from those who would attack him
with unreasonable taxes. He can’t imitate
the ostrich that way. But if he will kick
as that alert and lively bird he will kick
with all his might against attempts to
keep the temporary fourth cent of the fed
eral gasoline tax in effect past next June 30.
Common "Cold" May
Bring Many Ailments
Os Chronic Type
The worst thing about the so-called
“common” cold, is not the cold but some
of the side effects and attendant diseases
it so often stirs up. Among these probably
none is more annoying or more frequent
than misbehavior of the sinuses. If this is
the acute type, you are lucky. That means
it may bedevil you for a while and then
go away - completely. On the other hand,
it may recur often enough to become
chronic. You then have a conversation
piece for life.
Thus, if your cold - either the one you
have now or the one you will soon be con
tracting - should entail sinus suffering,
acute or perennial, you should be glad to
know that there is now something safe,
sane and economical that can be done
about it. And you should be equally im
pressed if your sinuses act up without even
having a cold.
The thing to do, of course, is to listen
to the experts. At a meeting of the Ameri
can College of Chest Physicians just end
ed in New York, Dr. Eduardo R. Pons. Jr.,
of that city reported good to excellent re
sults on patients using a new squeeze bot
tle of nasal medication with a suction nose
piece affixed to it. One drug manufactur
er has already put this new suction nasal
spray on the market and calls it Phenyl-
Drane. Because this new principle of “Suc
tion-then-spray” with the same squeeze
bottle outmodes anything else for self -
treatment of head colds and sinus trouble,
other manufacturers are expected to fol
low suite at a retail price pared to Kefau
ver’s urging.
Literally, a sinus is a hole-in-the-head
such as we need one like!
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'MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
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Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
Thomas A. Edison Named
To Hall Os Fame Was
Milestone of Year 1960
A milestone for which 1960 will be re
membered is the election of the late Thomas
Alva Edison to the Hall of Fame for Great
Americans - that world - famous national
shrine that commands the summit of the
New York University campus, overlook
ing the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
Two other distinguished Americans
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and phil
osopher, and Edward MacDowell, com
poser, were chosen with Mr. Edison for
this honor — out of a field of 242 nomi
nees. And since this was, indeed, an elec
tion -for which the “Wizard of Menlo
Park” became eligible in 1960. since can
didates must have been dead 25 years or
more and elections are held only on years
ending in 0 and 5 - the score should be
noted. Mr. Edison received 108 out of a
possible 142 votes, Mr. Thoreau 83 and Mr.
MacDowell 72.
Thus Thomas Alva Edison, the eighth
inventor to be so honored, takes h i s
place among such American immortals as
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee, Robert
Fulton, Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur
Wright, Stephen Foster, Daniel Boone and
77 others who have made outstanding con
tributions to their country.
Unlike the seven other inventors with
whom he now shares a special Elysian
subdivision, however, Edison has long oc
cupied a special niche of his own in t h e
regard of his countrymen. The late Charles
F. Kettering, himself an inventor to whom
we are considerably indebted, said it:
“Every citizen is as much a beneficiary of
Mr. Edison as if he had mentioned him in
his will. The comparatively small sum of
money he may have received for his in
ventiveness is microscopic in comparison
with public’s benefit — yours and mine.”
But even Kettering didn’t say it all.
Edison’s greatest single legacy to us all,
despite his 1,097 patents, may well have
been the example of planned research as
the surest - and fastest - route to tech
nological solutions, a legacy which he left
in the keeping of Max McGraw and the
company they founded to project this Edi
sonian principal into the future. Thus, pos
thumously, the man “who lit up the world
with the electric light in 1879” helped to
create the pop-up toaster, a new automa
tic telephone dialer and instruments that
help to guide our fastest jets and ultra
modern missiles.
Today, the original laboratory in
which Edison wrought so many of t h e
scientific components on which the mo
dern world has been erected, has prolif
erated into a chain of Thomas A. Edison
Laboratories operated across the nation by
the McGraw - Edison Company. And, even
more significantly, the torch of planned
research that passed from the hands of
the great inventor, now lights the way for
all who are engaged in pressing back our
technological frontiers.
Long may it shine upon that new bust
in the colonnade of the Hall of Fa.< !
Are You Protected ?
Polio can still strike any of over 85,-
000,000 unvaccinated Americans, bringing
with it a lifetime of crippling, a future
limited by crutches, braces or iron lungs—
perhaps even death. Are you protected or
are you one of that 85,000,000?
Polio epidemics still occur as was dem
onstrated by 1960 outbreaks in Rhode Is
land, the Carolinas, Puerto Rico and other
areas. Paralytic polio remains a continu
ing threat as large segments of the pop
ulation fail to get Salk vaccination pro
tection. That threat can be eliminated when
every susceptible person has been vaccina
ted.
Appalling numbers of men, women and
children are now suffering from crippling
attacks of polio that might have been pre
vented had they only made use of the
weapon which they themselves helped
forge through their voluntary contribu
tions to the March of Dimes.
A Salk shot series this winter will give
a measure of protection before the 1961
polio season.
Are you protected?
Newsweek finds that U. S. firms are
looking for 19 percent more college gradu
ates this June than a year ago, and are
offering salaries of $458 a month, up from
the 1959 average of $447. It quotes a De
partment of Labor spokesman as saying:
“If an engineer can waik, he can get $7,000
a year.”
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NFW MARCH OF
SOUR WEEKLY 4^ LESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
“Can This Be the Christ?”
Bible Material: John 4
Devotional Reading: John
1:43-51: Memory Selection:
They said to the women, “It is
no longer because of your
words that we believe, for we
have heard for ourselves, and
we know that this is indeed the
Savior of the world.” John 4:42
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
They Heard for Them'elves.
Young Peonle - Adult Topic:
Who Is Jesus?
This incident in Samaria oc
curred on a journey Jesus and
his disciples made from Jeru
salem to Galilee. The detour
through Perea, often taken to
avoid passing through Samari
tan territory, was avoided by
Jesus (v. 4 because a sense of
urgency in his mission took him
through the shortest route. Sy
char is a little village not far
from Schechem. Here they rest
ed near the well, the discioles
going into town for food while
Jesus remained there The time,
by Jewish reckoning, was
about the sixth hour (v. 6 noon
by our count.
The conversation with the
Samaritan woman arose from
our Lord’s request for a drink
when the woman came to the
well. Her hesitation and sur
prise were twofold. Jews never
spoke to Samaritans and despis
ed them; second, rabbis in par
ticular scorned speakinn to and
deferring to women. The first
reason is specifically cited (v.
9).
The incident is significant al
so because it is in contrast with
Jesus’ dealings with Nicode
mus. That great scholar was
given an elementary, basic les
son on the meaning of regen
eration and salvation: no great
scholarly issues were discussed.
Here, with the Samaritan wo
man, the subject of true
worship becomes the means of
salvation. A weighty theologi
cal issue is used as the means
of the clear revelation of h i s
I person and nature.
To a great scholar, the sim
plicity of the gospel is pro
claimed. To a simple woman,
the complexity of the gospel is
declared, yet its essential unity
in Christ is emphasized.
The highly controversial is
sue of the place of worship was
raised by the woman to cloud
the subject and draw attention
away from her guilty personal
life. And yet the question was
not entirely a diversion. The
Jews claimed that Jerusalem
was the appointed place of
worship and sacrifice and that
their temple was the only true
temple. The Samaritans declar
ed Mount Gerizim to be t h e
true point of mediation and
their temple the valid one. Ob- ’
viously. the conflicting claims
could not be true. Atonement
for sin and true worship and
access to God could not be at- I
tained by rival and mutually i
exclusive faiths. Thus the wo
man, in raising the question of
worship, was in a sense side
stepping her sins and yet ask
ing for an answer. She was in
effect saying: How am I to find
atonement amidst these rival
claims? Where am I to find I
God?
It is similar to a question of- I
ten raised today, and again of
ten evasive and yet potentially !
direct: which of these churches, 1
| with differing and often con
| flitting theologies, will lead me
to God an d salvation? Is not the
difference between certain mo
dern heretical churches and
true Christianity comparable to
the gap between the Samari
tans and the believing Israel
ites?
I Jesus’ answer is esoecially
important for us. because its
plain declarations are forever
timely. First, he declared that
the time was speedily coming
when both Jerusalem and Geri.-
zim would be by-passed and
become irrelevant, that indeed
the whole question of locality
would be out moded and the
Old Testament issues supersed
ed. Second, while the issue be
tween Samaritans and Jews
would be historically by-passed
and out-moded, its basic rele
vancy in terms of truth and
error would remain. The Sa
maritan faith was false and
ignorant; the true Jewish faith
was based on the word of God
and was thus a knowing and
true faith.
Third, the prophecies of the
Old Testament were to be ful
filled in terms of Israel, that is,
through Israel. Jerusalem
would, therefore, be supersed
i cd, but it would also be ful
! filled in that very appearance
l which made it no longer need
ed. The meaning of Jerusalem’s
existence would appear in its
I moment of fulfillment in t h e
I Christ, although Jesus here
1 stopped short of mentioning
i Christ.
i Fourth, he defined true wor
ship in this new era in verse
23 — worship is spiritual, per
sonal. and theological (“in
truth”). It cannot be formal,
impersonal, and devoid of
meaning and truth. Fifth, Jes
us gave a definition of God, not
intended to be comprehensive
by any means, but pertinent in
tern's of worship (v. 24). True
worship must be in truth; it
cannot be based on false theo-
| logies. It must be soiritual,
that is. informed bv a true and
regenerate spirit, because God
is Spirit, or as the Greek sug
gests, Spirit is God; the essence
of God is Spirit, known only
by means of spirit and truth.
Thus, Jesus declared, local
ity is not the basic issue in wor
ship: God is. But locality is not
irrelevant, because conflicting
doctrines cannot be equally
true. Thus, no church can claim
a monopoly on true faith and
worship. But neither can the
place of worship be declared
irrelevant. We cannot worship
God where spirit and I
truth are subordinated ,to
or by-passed for form, unity,
peace, or loyalty to the group.
The Samaritan woman was j
alert to all that Jesus said and |
recognized that all hinged on !
the coming of the Messiah. This j
fulfillment, not openly referred
to by Jesus, was now brought J
into the discussion by the wo- j
man. The Messiah, on his com
ing. she said, will tell us, or
clarify to us. all things.
Her assertion declared two
things. First, the Messiah, at I
his coming, would clarify every I
issue; the truth or error of all
things would be made apparent
by him. The statement is a re- I
markable one, revealing that
this sinful and basically pagan :
woman had a higher doctrine j
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State) Thursday, January 19,
Letters Io
The Editor
To the Editor:
Please publish this letter in
your good paper and thanks.
My great, great grandfather
Henry Talley, a planter in your
county from about 1820 to his
death in 1836 must have been
buried there. At least three of
his descendants are DAR mem
bers on his Revolutionary War
record. They and I are descen
dants through his son Henry
Hubbard Talley. We want to
locate his grave in order to
have DAR marker there.
His other children were Wil
liam, George. W. Nathan and
Elizabeth Talley in 1836, mar
ried girls were Lucy McWaters,
Sarah Clark, Mariah Farmer
and Eliza Hinton. Perhaps some
of your citizens or his descen
dants can tell me where Henry
and Edith Hubbard Talley were
buried. If so please write.
Very truly,
Minnie Talley B^ndy
Summersville, Missouri
• ♦ • ♦
Mr. Editor:
We would like to take this
way of saying thanks to so
many people from whom we
have received telephone calls,
letters, cards and visits which
made our Christmas a real
joy to all. We would like to
; see you all in oerson but that
; is imnossible. Thanks again.
Jim and Lois Gardner, Sr.
Covington, Ga.
of the Messiah than the learned
men of the day, including Ni
codemus. Her thinking was
simple and direct. The Messiah,
being what he is, will, when he
comes, have the answer to
every question. There was no
halfway evaluation here but a
full and direct recognition of
all the implications of his com
ing. Second, her answer post
poned decision concerning Je
sus’ statement on worship. She
did not disagree with him; had
he not said that “the hour
cometh, and now is” when true
worship shall be fully made
manifest? Well, then, she pre
ferred to wait for the Messiah’s
coming and the complete reve
lation of his presence and
teaching.
This declaration by the wo
man was given in sincerity and
earnestness, as well as with in
sight. In terms of this alone is
Jesus’ answer comprehensible,
“I that speak unto thee am he.”
He was not forcing information
on her. Rather, since her faith
was such that she was ready to
receive all truth from the Mes
siah, without reservation or
limitation, he made this, his
first open declaration of him
self, to the Samaritan woman.
Seedlings Are
Available Al
Forestry Comm.
The man who goes forward
is the man who reads the signs
of the time.
The steel beams reaching
skyward in every progressive
Georgia community is an in
dication of the leadership Geor
gia landowners are and have
shown in the field of forestry.
With increased industry, 42
new industries in 1960, Geor
gia landowners are in a po
sition to solidify their number
one position by seeing to it
that these mills are constantly
fed the raw materials needed
for maximum production.
Landowners, today, for the
first time, have an opportuni
ty to fulfill their seedling de
mands and the needs of indus
try in the future. The Georgia
Forestry Commission has an
ample supply of high quality
seedlings available. The spe
cies include slash, loblolly,
shortleaf, and Virginia pine and
yellow poplar. Landowners may
order these seedlings through
their county ranger, county
agent, ASC technician. Com
mission tree seedling nursery
or the Forestry Commission,
Box 1077, Macon. ASC pur
chase orders will be accepted
as well as checks and money
orders.
Commission Director Ray
Shirley stated that advice on
area to be planted, specie to
buy. and spacing of seedlings
can be obtained from the local
county ranger free of charge.
Shirley added that ranges will
also aide landowners in secur
ing commercial or contract
China. ..
Her Weakness
By LEO S. MALLARD
Chinese peasants have had a hard year. They are hungry
and they face an even harder winter under the communalis
tic agricultural system that the Peiping government operates.
“Natural disasters” have been blamed for their plight, but
the truth is that the food raised by peasants has been ex
ported to other countries to pay for China’s mass indus
trialization.
The peasant has a bleak out
look toward the coming winter
months as he faces possible
starvation. Even the govern
ment has become concerned. A
change in policy—to a degree
—has come about. Taxicab
drivers in the cities have been
sent out to collect manure.
School children have been
turned out to plant winter veg
etables and fast ripening va
rieties of wheat.
An estimated 6,000,000 high
school and college students have
been sent into the fields to
help raise enough food for the
coming winter. Rice and veget
ables are being rationed to all
people. Workers are putting in
long hours of hard labor every
day and living on a diet that is
less than the average Ameri
can eats at a single meal.
According to government of
ficials, food shortages are the
result of “natural adversities
not paralleled in the past 100
years.” The official new China
News Agency reported that
about 150 million acres —half
of China total cultivated
acreage — was stricken by
drought, typhoons, insects, and
floods. Entire harvests were
lost in many areas.
More typhoons are reported
to have hit the China Mainland
in 1960 than in any year dur
ing the past five decades.
Floods destroyed crops and
left fields inundated in more
than 20 provinces.
By contrast, the lower part
of the great Yellow River was
Newton fountains Express Their
Views On University Situation
Newton Countians expressed '
their views to a reporter of
The Atlanta Journal-Constitu
tion Sunday in regards to the
recent developments of inte
gration at the University of
Georgia, Athens. The feature of
the Atlanta paper was “Geor
gia Speaks.”
The question asked was “Did
Vandiver Handle Athens The
Best Way?” Printed opinions
of the persons asked follows:
O. C. McDougald. Covington,
textile worker: “I think he has
conducted himself in the best
way he passibly could. Nearly ,
everything he promised to do
(about maintaining segregat
ed schools) has been overrul
ed by the Supreme Court jud
ges.”
♦ • • *
VICTOR JOHNSON. Coving
ton, postal employee: “His,
hands are tied, I think. . . •
Integration is coming. It’s a j
known fact that the state can’t j
afford private schools for I
everybody.”
• • • ♦
MRS. A. L. SMITH, Coving-'
ton. food store employee and;
housewife: “That’s a had ques
tion. isn’t it? I don’t really ;
know. I guess he did what he ;
thought he had to do.”
♦ • • •
J. E. BATCHELOR, Coving- I
ton. taxi driver: “I don’t think ,
he handled it right at all. I was
under the impression all t h e
time that he was running
(Campaigning for office) that
his (desegregation) would nev
er happen. You know, I always !
thought the governor had more
power than any judge.”
«...
T. R. CAMPBELL, Covington,
postal employee: He didn’t han
dle himself the way he said he
was going to during the guber- '
natorial race. He said there |
planters as well as obtaining i
the desired seedlings. 11
The Commission’s six nurse- ।
ries, their location and species i
produced include Davisboro, j
located near Davisboro, slash; '
Herty, Ga. 91 at Albany, slash; ।
Hightower, Ga. 53, near Daw
sonville. loblolly, shortleaf and i
Virginia pine: and Walker- |
Page, Ga. 178, near Reidsville,
slash and swamp chestnut.
Morgan Nursery, U. S. 41 be
tween Macon and Perry is pro- ‘
ducing slash, loblolly and yel- £
low poplar. (
reported to have been almost
completely dry during a period
of nearly two months. Hordes
of grasshoppers took their toll
of the harvests that did mature
as they chomped many fields
bare. Many storms were also
reported to have tattered the
harvest. These are the excuses
given to the poor people of
China by their government to
comfort their empty stomachs.
Western observers find it
hard to believe that natural
disasters are to blame for the
sufferings of the people from
lack of food. Japanese weather
reports have shown little un
usual weather over China dur
ing the past year. Many peo
ple feel that these “natural
calamities” have been exag
gerated in order to rationalize
for the food shortage.
Hunger is man's greatest
source of discontent. History
has proved this fact many
times. A man who is hungry
becomes angry with his en
vironment, and as his hunger
pains increase, his want begin
to govern his actions. He does
not make a good citizen, work
er. or soldier.
In China’s rush to become a
great industrial and military
power she has failed to face
the fact that her livelihood still
depends on agriculture. Mak
ing her people pay the price of
modernization in food that is
needed to sustain life can never
build patriots for the Red Chi
nese government. Here liea
China’s greatest weakness.
1 would be no integration while
he was governor. He knew bet
ter at the time.
♦ • ♦ •
LeROY B. HEAD. Newton
County, taxi driver: “don’t like
any of this mess, do you? They
ought to put the federal judge
over the governor. That’s right,
they ought to do away with the
governor (ship) and give a
judge his job.”
♦ • • •
S. J. MORCOCK, Covington,
insurance broker: “There is
nothing else he could have
j done. . . The Sibley Report is
what I concur with. I think
the students (of the University
of Georgia) should be com
mended for the way they have
conducted themselves. I mean
the orderly ones, not the few
hoodlums. I don’t want to see
: the university closed. . . Yes. I
graduate from the university
in 1932.”
E. H. PRATT, Covington,
; partner in building supply
i company: “I think he has done
an admirable job. I don’t see
; how he could have done other
wise. But it’s a sad situation.”
Legislature
Completes First
Week of Session
The first week of the Geor
gia Legislature’s 1961 40-day
session was a hectic one. Rela
tive little constructive work
was accomplished. Main rea
son: The integration turmoil at
the University of Georgia
which developed as a result
of rapid-fire federal court or
ders to mix negroes and whites
at the 175-year-old state in
stitution.
Both Gov. Ernest Vandiver
and the State Senate (by a 47
to 2 vote) branded the federal
court action in the University
case as “usurpation” of law
making powers. The Senate re
solution said the Governor
“should resist” such interfer
ence “so that the determina
tion of the destiny of our
school system is returned” to
the state government.
I.umber oroduction in the
United States in 1960 was
about five percent below 1959,
reports Extension Forester Dor
sey Dyer at the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.