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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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Editor Aad FablialMr
LEO S. MALLARD
Assist*^ to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Encouraging Outlook
Is Forecast For The
Nation's Supermarkets
Americans enjoy a variety, quality and
abundance of food unmatched anywhere,
and beyond the imagination of a good part
of the world’s people. The reUi] stores
which have developed the distribution
system to move and sell this mountain
of goods do an immense and outstanding
job — and one that is getting bigger every
year.
According to Paul J. Cupp, Chairman
of the Board of the National Association
of Food Chains, the nation’s food chain
stores are likely to ring up a grand total
of more than $23.4 billion in sales for
i 960 — an increase of 6.5 per cent over
1959. The smaller companies are doing well
as shown by the fact that sales of those
w ith four or more stores are 6.5 per cent
over 1959 in comparison with the 4.6 per
cent figure for food chains of eleven or
more stores.
Food chains are backing up their con
fidence in the economic outlook with plan
ned expenditures for building and remod
eling totaling about $1,159 million oaring
1961, a slightly larger amount than that
spent in 1960. i .au - evidence of the im
pact of food c. i expenditures on the
economy is the ouuook for increased em
ployment opportunities in food chains as
new people are hired to staff new stores
and supermarkets. Payroll costs in 1960
are estimated at more than $2 billion for
food chains alone.
Reassuring to consumers is the fact
that even the most pessimistic food chain
operators see no inc> eases in food prices
of more than 2 per cent for the next 12
months, and the fact that current food
price levels are very close to those pre
vailing about two years ago.
According to Mr. Cupp the trend toward
construction of “super supermarkets” is
abating in favor of medium-sized markets
and food chain executives are planning
an all-out attack on rising expenses. The
gradual climb in operating costs is one of
the key problems facing the industry in
its effort to satisfy consumer demand for
variety and convenience while maintain
ing its record for pioneering lower cost
distribution methods.
Beef Growers Ultimate
Goal Is To Please
The Buying Public
The American consumer is the most
pampered critter in the world. His tastes
are the first concern of producers, manu
facturers and distributors. This concern
could be seen at a recent inter-industry
beef grading conference where an official
of the American Meat Institute discussed
some of the problems and goals of meat pro
cessors and producers.
One point he made was that no meat
grading system yet devised is sufficiently
accurate to serve as a guide to consumer’s
selection of meat for tenderness, juiceness
and flavor. Shoppers rely on the personali
ty of a store and its reputation for quality
and high standards.
He suggested a 9-point program for the
cattle and beef industry to improve its po
sition with consumers: Realize that the
ultimate goal is to please the consumer;
encourage breeding selectivity through
appropriate certification programs; con
tinue improvement in feeding and finish
ing of cattle for market; more effective
measures for control of diseases; more re
search in the area of tenderization, longer
shelf life, packaging and freezing proced
ures; develop more accurate measures of
consumer preference; wider dissemination
of information about proper methods of
cooking different qualities and cuts of
beef; encourage all segments of this free and
competitive industry to perform most ef
fectively their respective services in gett
ing to consumers the kind and quality of
beef they prefer; and, perhaps most im
portant, discourage a paternalistic govern
ment interjecting itself in an industry
function where price controls or price eval
uation are involved, either directly or in
directly.
There has never been greater effort ex
pended to please consumers. This is one
of the attributes of our free market system
that we can ill afford to forget.
What reconciles me to my stupidity is
that my contemporaries are as perplexed
about the current international situation
as I am, and as equally baffled about how
to solve it
You can preach a better sermon with
your life than with your lips. — Oliver
Goldsmith.
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Oil Company Makes
SIOO,OOO Gift To
Cuban Refugee Relief
One of the nation’s largest oil companies
is contributing SIOO,OOO toward relief work
being undertaken on behalf of refugees
from Communist-controlled Cuba. Texaco,
Inc., which last June had $55 million of
its Cuban assets seized by the Castro regime
has conducted business in Cuba for more
than 50 years and wishes to help relieve
the plight of the estimated 30,000 to 40,-
000 Cubans who have been forced to flee
the Island to Miami, Tampa, New Orleans
and other Gulf Coast areas. Texaco’s grant
will be divided among several agencies.
Nicholas Duke Biddle, Chairman of the
Caribbean Program of the International
Rescue Committee, commenting on Tex
aco’s action in volunteering its gift said,
“This humanitarian concern for the wef
fare of many Cuban citizens is most com
mendable and doubtless will be shared by
many other such organizations in the days
ahead.”
A spokesman for the oil company also
disclosed that its former Cuban employees
now in the United States are being offer
ed jobs in Texaco’s domestic organization,
or helped to find employment elsewhere
in this country.
Community Effort
The eyes of the nation are turning to
ward New York State's “Triple Cities,”
Endicott, Johnson City and Binghamton,
where, to save the threatened loss of rev
ered Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co. to these
communities, through outside purchase,
employes, merchants, ministers, house
wives, boy scouts, have been driving for
a $5 million fund to buy shares at home
and the happy ending may now be in sight.
HOW HISTORY WAS MADE
In an article on Henry Ford, the last
he ever wrote, and which appears in the
Vanadium Corporation’s “Vancoram Re
view” which he once edited, the late Victor
H. Scales sounded the following nostalgic,
if statistical, note: “In 1909 the (Model T
Ford) touring cars sold for SBSO. The price
went up to $950 in 1910, but thereafter was
reduced annually. By 1916 the Model T
touring car sold for $360 and runabout for
$345. A stripped economy model retailed
for as little as $290.”
It should be added, however, that this
was before Henry established his famous
$5 minimum daily wage . . . and a long,
long time before Walter Reuther.
FOR TOUGH JIMMY HOFFA, boss of
the million-and-a-half-member Teamsters’
Union, things are not so good. A Federal
grand jury in Orlando, Fla. 'ias returned
an indictment against him and two others
charging the misuse of over half a million
dollars of union money in a Florida real
estate promotion. If he should be convicted,
he could be put out of circulation for as
much as five years and fined SI,OOO each
on as many as 12 counts. And this unpleas
antness follows on the heels of the dismal
failure of his all-out effort in the election
campaign to defeat 56 Congressmen who
voted for the Landrum-Griffin Bill. Only
one was beaten.
Perhaps his long-loyal truckers are be
ginning to mistrust his motives?
The first full year of the civil Jet Age
saw the scheduled airlines of the United
States reach new highs in traffic, but
stand still in the profit department, ac
cording to the Air Transport Association
of America. Despite the fact that every
aspect of airline traffic — passenger, mail,
freight and express — set records during
1959, the airlines ended the year with a
profit of less than three cents on each
dollar of sales for the third consecutive
year.
A price of $162,000 paid for a seat on
the New York Stock Exchange a few months
ago was the highest in nearly a quarter
of a century. An Exchange seat is not a
piece of furniture, but conveys the right
to buy or sell securities on the floor of
this market place. The highest price ever
paid for a seat was $625,000 in February
1929.
It’s time that women, especially the
married ones, were held accountable for
their part in the promoting of extracurri
cular romances; in these affairs the men
are no more blame-worthy than the women
About all we gain from experience is
not to make the same mistake again. Then
we try a new way of getting into trouble.
Talking sense to a resentful woman
is like talking to a goldfish.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SO 0 R WIIKLT jOLISSON FOR
unday School
Jesus’ Authority Challenged
Bible Material: John 5
Devotional Reading: John
8:25 - 32: Memory selection:
Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who hears my words and be
lieves him who sent me has
eternal life; he does not come
into judgment, but has passed
from death to life. John 5:24.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Jesus Answers a Challenge.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Why Is Christ Our Authority?
The opponents of Jesus were
constantly challenging his
authority, and they were well
within their rights in doing so.
For if Jesus was what he claim
ed to be, he was in possession
of authority greater than ever
delivered to any other living
soul. If he was without au
thority, then he was false both
in his pretensions and in t h e
attempted exercise of author
ity.
We need to impress upon our
minds this fundamental con
cept, namely, that the basic
problem in religion is the pro
blem of authority. Is there di
vine sanction for what we be
lieve? Have our teachers been
men through whom God has
revealed his truth, or have they
written down for our guidance
only their own opinions?
Many of Jesus’ contempor-!
aries admired him. but it is one
thing to admire a man and it is
another thing to make him an
object of worship. Only God is
worthy of worship. To worship
man is idolatry. We worship Je
sus Christ because we believe
him to be the incarnate Son of
God, equal with the Father in
power and glory.
So we must challenge the
authority of Jesus before we
decide what is to be our atti
tude toward him. Today we
have a church and a body of j
Christian doctrine because we
have decided that into the
hands of Jesus Christ has been
delivered all authority both in
heaven and on earth (see Matt. 1
28:18).
In order to understand this
lesson, we need to go back and
review Chapter 5 from the be
ginning.
There was a feast at Jerusa
lem and Jesus had gone up to
the city to attend it. In the
course of his stay, he encount
ered a partly paralyzed man
I lying on the edge of the pool
called Bethesda. For thirty -
eight years this man had been
in this deplorable condition.
Along with a number of other
ailing folk, he managed some
how to get to the pool of Beth
esda every day, hoping that
when the water was agitated,
as it was at certain times, pro
bably by erupting gases, he
might be placed therein and
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Letters To
The Editor
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Covington, Ga
January 19. 1961
To The Editor
Dear Sir:
I hope you will see fit to
print the following. (
Regarding the recommend
ed arrests of persons found
fishing on Sunday, can anyone I
tell me why it is more illegal !
or immoral to fish than to golf, |
go to drag races, movies, base
ball games, or even to watch
sports e rents on television?
And also can the Grand Jury
members tell me that they do
not participate in any such ac
tivities? Are we fishermen in
ferior citizens?
Thank vou.
A T. Stubbs.
Covington, Ga.
I Hon. Belmont Dennis 1
Covington, Georgia
Dear Belmont:
As each new year rolls
around, it is my pleasure to
extend to you my best wishes
for the New Year and at the
same time to forward a House
of Representatives calendar to
you.
Please know’ that each day
during the year which lies
ahead as in the years before, j
I am grateful to you for your (
friendship and that I welcome
every opportunity to be of ser
vice to you, to your communi
ty and to our district.
Please call on me whenever
I can be of any service of any
kind to you.
With continuing best wishes
and warm personal regards I
am
Sincerely your friend,
Member of C 'ress
I JOHN J. FLYNT, JR.
healed.
To us this appears to be su
perstitious procedure, but it is
an arresting fact that people
often are healed by means
which appear to us both super
stitious and unlikely. Certain
ly people must have been heal
ed — or believed that they
were healed — else they would
not have gathered there daily
as they did. Jesus singled this
man out of the crowd. He was,
indeed, a pathetic case.
By this notice of him, Jesus
set forth the great spiritual
principle that he singles out
today for healing of body and
soul those who are capable of
receiving his gift. This man
was ignorant and superstitious,
but apparently he had in him
the rudiments of genuine re
ligious faith.
The Lord’s question was,
“Wilt thou be healed?”
A needless question, we say.
Yet perhaps the man had be
come so used to mendicancy
and lazy living that he might
not want to be restored to nor
mal health, a condition which
would involve responsibility
and work. Are you, for in
stance, entirely sure that you
want to be cleansed of some
besetting sin? Augustine pray
ed God that He would make
him pure, “but not yet. Lord,”
he always added. Yet when
Augustine was born again in a
genuine religious experience,
he found release and the peace
which comes with purity of
thought and life.
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
That is a question for everyone
to ponder thoughtfully.
“I have no man, when the
water is troubled, to out me in
to the pool: but while I am
coming, another steppeth down
before me.” This statement
bristles with moral problems.
Many a man is in his sin today
because no one is helping him
to get out of it. And always,
according to the selfish pattern
of worldly living, those who
are able have been stepping be
fore those who are disabled.
The strong have been taking
advantage of the weak. “While
I am coming, another steppeth
down before me,” describes the
pattern of selfishness today as
always.
“Jesus saith unto Him, Rise,
take ud thy bed, and walk. And
immediately the man was made
whole, and took up his bed.
and walked: and on the same
day was the sabbath.”
Our Lord’s words have about
them the ring of authority. He
says to you and to me as he
said to the disabled man cen
turies ago, “Rise, take up thy
bed. and walk.” Rise because I
give you power. Take up a n d
fold up and put away that
old pattern of life which invol
ved inactivity and absence of
purposeful living. Walk in the
strength which I give you, out
of invalidism into health; out
of resignation into vigorous.
Durposeful living; out of sin
into righteousness.
Rise uo and walk are words
which Christ addresses to us
today. Millions of people made
nowerless bv the sinful con
dition of their lives are willing
to remain this way.
“And immediately the man
was made whole, and took up
his bed, and walked: and on
the same day was the sabbath.”
“Immediately.” Sometimes
God heals the afflictions of both
body and soul in this fashion,
but at other times He heals
gradually. "Made whole.” This
was something more than an
imnrovement in health. It was
restoration to what God in
ten^nr! him to be.
Such is the effect of Christ’s
irnoact upon our lives if. like
th's ooor invalid, we are will
ing tn be healed. God is not in
terested in just improving us
but in transforming us.
Later, Jesus sought out the
man in the temple and warned
him: “sin no more, lest a worse
thing come unon thee.” Evi
dently the man’s affliction was
the result of his sin. This is
not always true, but freouent
ly it is true. And after Christ
has healed us, the worst thing
that can happen to us is to go
back to the sin from which
we have been delivered.
The worst thing that can
happen to a man is for him to
see the light and to turn away
from it; to be healed of his sin
and then to go back again to
his sinning. God through Jesus
Christ is willing to forgive us
and to keep on forgiving us so
long as our faces are turned
heavenward.
More than 1 1/3 billion birds
or 78 percent of all U. S. broil
ers marketed in 1959 were pro
duced by Southern broilermen.
Georgia is the top state in
the nation in broiler produc
tion; Alabama, third, says The
Progressive Farmer.
(Largest Coverage An* Weekly Ie The State)
Navy Awards
Certificate To
Covington News
The Covington NEWS has
been awarded a Certificate Os
Appreciation by the United
States Navy* in recognition of
outstanding service to t h e
United States Navy Recruiting
Service.”
Presentation of the gold -
seal award was made by Petty
Officer First Class Kenneth A.
Frith, who has charge of t h e
local recruiting program for
the Navy. The certificate was
signed by Lieutenant - Com
mander P. S. Faulks, U. S.
Navy Officer in Charge, Geor
gia Recruiting District.
The citation stated in part:
“Through your public-spirited
cooperation with the Navy Re
cruiting Service, you have con
tributed immeasurably in fur
thering the excellent relations
between the United States
Navy and the people of your
community. In recognition of
these services rendered so un
selfishly, this Certificate of Ap
preciation is presented this the
Ist day of January, 1961.”
Milkina Practices
To P« F’n r »hasized
At Short Courses
Better milkmg procedure for
increased nrofit and improved
herd health will be emphasized
at three dairy production short
courses to be held in different
sections of the state in Jan
uarv and February.
Courses wiU meet at Car
tersvil'» on January 31. at
Rock Eagle 4-H Club Center
near Eatonton on February 1
and at Moultry on February 2.
The Cartersville meeting will
be at the American Legion
Home and the Mou’trie meet
ing at the County Agricultur
al Building.
Three out-of -state authori
ties will join University of
Georgia and Georgia Depart
ment of Agriculture personnel
in presenting the program,
which will be identical at all
three sessions, according to H.
K. Welch, Jr., head of t b e
Extension dairy department.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Old Lands And New People
By Dr. Irvine S. Ingram
NOTES ON THE MIDDLE
EAST: Prior to my leaving
America, a graduate of West
Georgia College who has serv
ed four periods in the Army in
the Middle East stimulated me
to write on the dispossessed
Arabs of Palestine. I connect
this to what I call a lack of in
ternational morality.
We visited some of the lar
gest pyramids of Egypt. A uni
versity professor from America
and a research investigator
from France were our only
traveling companions. Fresh
from some of these camps in
Sidon. Lebanon. I opened up
the question of these people
who were thrown out of their
homes. The Frenchmen said
that the situation was all right.
From time immemorial the
conqueror had taken lands and
countries. He said the past is
too far back to start correcting
such things. He stated the
neighboring Arab states ought
to take these people in as
brothers they are and absorb
them.
The American professor
stated that to do otherwise
than what has been done is im
practical. The Frenchman
stated that the U. S. is t o o
humane and generous; that it
has a tendency to leave inter
national matters to the more
experienced nations. He said
further there is a point of sa
turation in giving aid. Too
much aid encourages graft, and
these Eastern countries, in the
main, on a matching basis, have
a tendency to inflate their part
of the matching fund to meet
U. S. aid and thus their cost is
little.
He disliked the tendency of
these small nations to play
Russia gainst the United
States in order to get fund*.
He said this plan of blackmail
had paid off. He paid tribute
to Great Britain as the best
nation in dealing with these
underprivileged countries, and
he stated his plan for distribut
ing aid. He said that the Wes
tern powers should pool their
grants — grants from the
respective nations to be based
on their per capita income —
and have a common agency for
these countries to distribute
these funds.
He stated this would do away
with jealousy and blackmail.
This was the Frenchman talk
ing.
Much of our trouble in the
Middle East grew out of giv
ing up the completion of the
THEN and NOW..
1861 - 1961
By LEO S. MALLARD
History books spread before us tell an amazing story
of the likeness of the most dramatic and colorful period
in the life of the United States with those conditions that
exist today. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln ascended to the Presi
dency and was faced with a divided nation. John Kennedy
has just been inaugurated President of the world’s most
powerful nation; he faces a divided world. Although 100
years have passed, racial strife is still a thorn that continues
to irritate both the northern and southern sections of our land.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Clouds of civil war hung
over this nation in 1861 as Mr.
Lincoln took office. Georgia
had joined the ranks of the se
ceded states bringing their
number to five and giving the
Confederacy a land area
stretching from South Caro
lina to Mississippi. Eight other
states were soon to join the
“Southern Cause.”
The ship "Star of the West”
was shelled on Jan. 9, as it
attempted to land reinforce
ments at Fort Sumter off the
South Carolina coast. Unknown
at the time, Confederate bat
teries would fire the first shots
of the “American Civil War”
at Fort Sumter on April 12,
1861. to begin the four year
bloody struggle.
The abolishment of slavery,
a goal of the northern states
and one of the minor causes of
the split, was one of the hot
test issues of the day. The
economy of the South depend
ed upon cotton. Negro slaves
were needed to work in the
fields to produce the cotton.
The Northern economy was
stablized by industry and very
few Negroes lived north of the
Mason-Dixon Line.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
On Inauguration Day, Jan
20. 1961, Mr. Kennedy became
President of the 50 United
States. His acceptance speech
rallied the support of free men
the world over, gave hope for
Aswan Dam. That Is another
story. But I cannot forget the
1.050,000 persons displaced in
Palestine. Israel should com
pensate these dispossessed peo
ple for their property, contend
ed the Frenchman. Much of
what he said is true.
The Ford Foundation touch
es spots for stimulating help
ful projects in the Middle East.
I am surprised that they
achieve so much with limited
funds. But, after all, we learn
ed at West Georgia College
that money is not everything.
Egypt is a country whose
past seems to go further back
into antiquity. Modern Scho
lars know a great deal about its
history despite the tomb rob
bers and conquerors. The
population is 24 million and
its size is an area equaling
Texas and Arizona. Someone
has said the Arabs never make
strong nations, for they are
apathetic and they are Mos
lems. They think more of their
religion than they do anything
else, perhaps. The Moslem re
ligion seems satisfying to them.
The Lebanese with Beirut as
their capital are the elite.
While Egypt had some few
great kings, the record of these
kings in the main is one of de
ceit and egotism. When a king
was enthroned he began to get
ready for his transition to the
other world. This was a big
industry. He must build his
tomb, collect everything that
the other life must have — all
this included furniture, money,
the collection finest arts — in
fact, everything.
Out of this practice grew the
occupation of tomb robbery.
Had it not been for the rob
bery that placed *ll this wealth
back in circulation, this prac
tice would have buried untold
wealth.
However, the great Nile
River has been the source of
much water and food. Great
areas of Egypt are still unin
habitable because of t h e de
sert. Our government has a
small mission there working
on some problems of reclama
tion and agriculture. The ICA
has a strong, able person who
has imagination and vision.
As to Cairo, it is a city of
3-1/2 million. I think the city
is very modern and attractive
in many ways.
• • • •
We leave India confused. As
I tee India, her future is pre
carious. The states could fall
apart; political and religious
dissension can tear the nation
asunder; China is an evei
Thuraday, January 26, 1961
a better life to the enslaved
people of the world, and gave
warning to the Communist
powers of the world that this
nation would do “anything ne
cessary” to preserve our liber
ty.
Brush-fire wars that might
. spread at anytime and involve
the United States in a bitter
struggle to the end against
Communism were going strong
in Laos. Algeria, and the Con
go as Mr. Kennedy took his
seat in the President’s chair.
Cuba, Berlin, and the small is
lands of Quemoy and Matsu
smoldered in their different
parts of the world and theat
ened to burst into flames of
war anytime.
Integration of the races at
I all social levels, the goal of
the NAACP and other liberal
thinkers, is the hottest do
mestic issue of the day in the
1 North and South. States in the
' South havq watched their
■ long-standing segregation laws
being swept aside and declared
unconstitutional by the Su
preme Court one by one.
Southern states have been
forced to accept token integra
tion in their schools. As a last
resort, state legislatures
' throughout the South are has
, tily drawing up pupil place
j ment laws —the only statutes
that the Federal courts have
thusfar not declared unconsti
tutional.
threat; over-population can
bring untold havoc; poverty
can de-energive the nation.
Lack of trained young leaders
is apparent.
India, ambitious, is a puzzle.
What are the alternatives?
American and Western power*
make 15 billion look to India.
If India loses to communism,
all the East goes to commun
ism. America loses its major
markets. Life in America will
be harder and more difficult
The Prime Minister is no more
communistic than you or I.
This is an opinion of many
students of India. Faith and
patient persistence on our part
will win.
♦ ♦ • •
KARACHI, PAKISTAN—
The people of Pakistan are, in
the main, Moslems. England
in withdrawing from Indi* in
1947 thought it best to divide
the country. She set up two
states carved out of India for
the Moslems — West Pakistan
on the west and East Pakistan
on the east.
They are one thousand miles
apart. The Hindu people in
these areas were to move into
India, and the Moslems in In
dia were to move to one of the
Pakistani states. The plan h«i
not worked well. I doubt if
any other approach would
have worked either.
Certainly these people are
not at peace. The Moslems and
the Hindus are quarreling over
Kashmir, a state definitely
Moslem, but claimed by India.
The issue is complicated and
serious.
We have spent our time her*
with friends —some 25 in all—
who have visited West Georgia
College. We like this. In this
way we get some ide* of their
culture, philosophy, and de
sires.
This has been our plan
throughout the trip. One has
to eat a lot of strange food and
endure digestive upsets, but it
pay* off in information.
Indi* proper left me con
fused. But my morale was
raised after talking with a
great American in charge of
the Ford Foundation in New
Delhi. He is Dr. Emminger who
has been in India nine years.
He is a great person and in my
judgment knows something of
the situation here.
Pakistan ha* for two years
been under marshal law. The
ruler seems to be making an
excellent dictator. This eity is
clean. There are few beggars
One feel* the*? ia order in th*
government. Fewer political
prisoner* are in jail here than
in democratic India.