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We have learned from an “unimpeachable” source that
the Newton County high school band may be tendered an
invitation to attend the Orange Bowl classic at Miami, Fla.,
next January 1. It seems that the band did so well at the
Gator Bowl last year that an invite may be forthcoming
from the Orange Bowl officials.
Jerry Durden, one of the Loganville high basketball
players in the tournament here last week, is a former Por
terdale and Newton High boy. Jerry just about put his
team in the semi-finals on Thursday night when he hit a
one-hander to tie up the Loganville-Lithonia game in over
time and set the stage for his teammate to win the clash
45-43.
THIS AND THAT!
Alabama Coach Bear Bryant is reportedly angry that
the University of Georgia has signed Bob Ford, his excellent
line coach . . . We can’t see how any fellow in athletics who
made about $50,000 per year would fail to file an income
. x report with Uncle Sam. However, Goose Tatum, former
Globetrotter, is accused of failing to file a return for 1957
and 1958 . . . The Pebble Beach, Calif., golf course is a
treacherous one and the wind blows fiercely. Bob Crosby
told of how his caddie met with calamity in last year’s meet:
“My caddie lifted the pin and walked to the edge of a little
cliff while I putted. The wind blew him over the side. He
tumbled down onto the beach, and got so mad he quit me.
I had to pack my bag the rest of the way.” . . An old friend
of NCHS athletics is the new freshman coach at the Univer
sity of Georgia — Mike Castronis. Mike was the Winder
High coach in 1954-56 . . . Glenn Patterson, one of the
basketball officials in the Newton County Invitational tour
nament last week, is a native of Porterdale. He now lives
in Athens.
Atlanta Area Council Banquet
Tuesday At Dinkier Plaza Hotel
The 45th Annual Dinner of
•11 the districts of the Atlanta
Area Council will be held on
January 31 at 6:30 P.M. at the
Dinkier Plaza Hotel.
Thia announcement was
made today by John H. Stem
bler, President of the Atlanta
Area Council. Mr. Hugh Com
er, Member of the National
Executive Board of the Boy
Scouts of America and Presi
dent of the Comer-Avondale
Mills, Inc. will be the principle
speaker. At this meeting
awards of the Silver Beaver
will be made along with other
recognitions.
Mr. Comer is an outstanding
speaker who at present is serv
ing as President of the Choc
colocco Council, Boy Scouts of
American. Anniston, Alabama.
His connection with Scouting
is not only local, but regional,
and national. He has long been
interested in the development
of youth through the utiliza
tion of the Boy Scout Program.
Mr. Comer has been a leader
in the textile field of the South.
Newton High Team Captains Hold Championship Trophies of Tournament
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NEWTON TEAM CAPTAINS (all seniors) are shown in the photo
above holding the championship trophies of the Invitational Tour
nament held in Covingion last weekend. From left to right: PhiL
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
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SPORTS
808 GKEER. Editor
He started work for Avondale
Mills upon his graduation from
the University of Alabama in
1914. He was vice-president
and director of Avondale Mills
from 1927 until 1940 when he
became executive vice-presi
dent. He was elected president
and treasurer of the company
July, 1945. He is also a direc
tor of the company. He is presi
dent and director of Comer-
Avondale Mills, Inc., New
York, and director of South
eastern Cottons, Inc.
One of the colorful parts of
this program will be the
awarding of the Silver Beaver
for distinguished service to
youth to ten outstanding
Scouters of the Atlanta Area
Council. Recognition will be
given to outgoing and incoming
Officers of the Council.
The oldest type of boat con
struction is the lapstrake
(clinker-built). A craft of this
type dating back to about 400
A. D. was excavated near Den
mark.—Sports Afield.
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Rams Tie Game
Skein Record
Newton High Rams tied
their record for consecutive
games won in a season Tues
day night at Chamblee as
Coach Bradley’s boys their
18th victory of the Campaign.
The NCHS girls also won
Tuesday, by a score of 53-19.
The Rams score was 66-41.
Allan Rowe, Bob Mitchell
and Terry Evans led the Ram
Point - makers in the clash
with 22, 14 and 13 points
respectively. Carol Bryant
and Helen Masten vanned
the Newton girls attack with
15 and 10 points.
Rowe hauled in 21 re
bounds in the game Tuesday.
TOURNAMENT RESULTS:
(All Girls Games)
Rockdale County 29, Logan
ville 17
Newton County 58, Monroe 17
Social Circle 39, Morgan Coun
ty 27
Boys Games:
Morgan County 40, Social Cir
cle 39
Loganville 47, Lithonia 45
(Overtime)
Rockdale County 34, Monroe 27
SEMI-FINAL GAMES
Newton County 34, Rockdale 26
(Girls)
Rockdale Co. 40, Morgan Co. 29
(Boys)
Lithonia 55, Social Circle 53
(3 overtimes)
(Girls)
Newton County 65, Loganville
27
(Boys)
FINALS
Newton County 49. Lithonia 29
(Girls)
Newton County, 45, Rockdale
Co. 32 (Boys)
James Birchfield
Graduates From
Marine School
Marine Sgt. James P. Birch
field of Route 1, Fair Street,
Covington, Ga. was graduated,
Dec. 26, from the Radio relay
repair course at the Marine
Corps Recruit Depot, San Die
go, Calif.
During the 38-week course,
students were instructed in
elementary electricity and re
pair and operation of Marine
Corps radio equipment.
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IN THE COVINGTON NEWS
lip Freeman, Bob Mitchell. Terry Evans. Allan Rowe, Dianne
Moore, Helen Masten and Carole Bryant.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961
Newton Teams Take Tournament
Both Newton County High School basketball teams cap
tured championships in the Invitational Tournament held
at the Covington gymnasium during the past weekend. The
Rams turned back the Rockdale County quint 45-32 and
the NCHS girls won over Lithonia 49-29.
The double triumph for the
host school marked the third
straight title for Coach Stone
Cooper’s team. The Rams an
nexed their fourth straight in
the meet.
In winning the eighth annual
affair the Rams of C o a c h
Ronald Bradley recorded their
16th and 17th straight wins of
the season and presently are
the only team in Region 4AA
with an unblemished record for
the season.
Guard Billy Shaw and Cen
ter Rowe vanned the NCHS
attack with 18 and 11 points
respectively. Ronald Smith, the
tall Rockdale center, led hi s
team in the scoring column
with 13 points.
It was the hot shooting of
the Rams that set the nace for
Coach Bradlev’s boys. Thev hit
on 17 shots from the field in
31 tries. That is a good 54.8
percent accurate. In contrast
the boys from Convers only
made good on nine of 48 shots
for an 18-7 percent mark.
In the girls’ championship
game the deadly set shooting
of Dianne Moore paved the
way for the lonsided win and
the title for Newton County.
She had 10 field goals in the
first half with seven of those
coming in the initial period of
plav. Dianne was the games’
high scorer with 26 points.
Newton’s guards did a splen
did job of twarting the shoot
ing of the Lithonia forwards.
The foe had 29 shots from the
field during the game and con
nected on onlv 10 field goals.
Newton had 21 fielders on 62
shots at the bucket.
Betty Faith Jaynes. Carol
George and Sandy King, the
starters for the local sextet,
damped a defense on the visit
ing forwards that permitted
only five field goals in the final
three periods of play.
Newton teams will buckle
down to the resumption of the
regular season play Friday
night against the Briarcliff ag
gregations in Atlanta. The
NCHS squads met Chamblee
Tuesday night on the Cham
blee court.
Tuesday, January 31, the ‘
next to last home game of the
season will be played at the
NCHS gym. Jackson is the op
ponent and game time is 7
o’clock.
Donald Cardell
Named To Georgia
Fall Dean's List
Donald J. Cardell of Mans
field. was among the 96 Uni
versity of Georgia students
named to the Dean’s List at the
University for the fall quar
ter. Mr. Cardell is enrolled in
the College of Education.
Glenda Day Ewing of Soc
ial Circle was also named to
the list, which the college an
nounced recently.
The penguin can’t fly. but
he can jump about five to eight
feet out of the water and on to
an ice floe.—Sports Afield.
BY 808 GREER
(News Sport Editor)
GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP
Newton 49 Lithonia 29
! F—Moore 26 Willis 11
F—Bryant 11 E. McDonald 5
F—Jeffries 5 McDonald 10
G—Javnes Hawkins
G—G- • Jackson
G —King Stembridge
Score at Half: Newton 30 -
16.
Subs: Newton — Bailev 3,
Lester. Hopkins 1, Morcock 2.
Lithonia — Abbott 1, Young, J.
King.
BOYS CHAMPIONSHIP
Newton 45 Rockdale Co. 32
F—Mitchell 6 D Smith 0
F—Farr 0 Miller 1
C—Rowe 11 R. Smith 13
G—Shaw 18 Pennington 0
G—Bowen 8 Tonev 11
Score at Half: Newton 25-9.
Subs: Newton — Freeman 2,
T. Rutledge, Rockdale Co. —
Fincher 7.
Emory-Oxford
Basketball
Emory-At-Oxford intramur
al basketball results during the
past week were as follows:
C Co. Junior Varsity
Chestnut
Atkinson
Landford
•Tenkins
Ray
Smith. E. 8
Haggerty 9
Halpern
I Boyd 6
TOTAL 23
A Co. Junior Varsity
Peters
Newton, B. 8
Hollingsworth 2
Payne 12
Newton, D.
Reifler
Walker 6
Montgomery 7
Thornton 6
Connell
TOTAL 41
—
I C. Co. Varsity
Fortson, B. 18
Richardson ’ 1
Landford
Haggerty
Boyd
Capes 13
Dorris 13
Ramsey 5
TOTAL 50
A Co. Varsity
Fitzgerald 5
Whiting 4
Wakefield
Payne 3
Fortson, S. 10
Egan 1
Montgomery
TOTAL 23
EMORY AT OXFORD
ATHLETE SCHEDULE
Girls’ Basketball, Company
A vs. Company C. Thursday
(today), 7 p. m. Gymnasium.
Men’s Basketball, company A
vs. Company B. Monday, Jan
uary 30, 5 p. m„ 7 p. m. Gym
nasiuf.
Men’s Basketball, Company
B vs. Company C, Wednesday,
February 1, 5 p. m., 7 p. m.
Gymnasium.
Car's Transmission
Overheats, Causes
Fire Saturday
A 1950 model Chrysler be
longing to J. C. Gaither. Negro,
became overheated Saturday
afternoon on Monticello
Street directly in front of
Mayor Nat Turner's home and
caused a fire that the Coving
ton Fire Department quickly
extinguished.
Fireman Clayton Bailey said
that the fire apparently start
ed in the transmission of the
car when a shortage develop
ed in the shifting mechanism.
Gaither is an employee of
the State Highway Depart
ment. The car had a Rockdale
County license plate.
Georgia cotton production
for 1960 was 16,000 bales un
der the 1950 crop, reports the
Georgia Corp Reporting Ser
vice.
Betty Faith Jaynes, Allan Rowe
Head All-Tournament Selections
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BETTY FAITH JAYNES
Two members of the New
ton County High champion
ship teams of the Invitational
Tournament were named as
“Most Valuable Players” by
The Covington News for the
1961 event.
Betty Faith Jaynes, guard
on the girls team, and Allan
Rowe, Ram center, are the
honorees for their sterling per
formances in the eighth an
nual event held in Covington.
Miss Jaynes, a sophomore,
was assigned the hard task of
guarding Lithonia’s crack
forward Judy Willis in t h e
championship game Saturday
night. In the final three quar
ters of the game Miss Willis
managed to get onlv one field
goal. The night before in the
semi-final game the Lithonia
whiz sank a total of 28 points
to lead her team to a triple -
overtime win over Social Cir
cle.
In the first two games of the
tourney Miss Jaynes repeatedly
harassed the forwards of Mon
roe and Rockdale County to
help put her team in the fin
als.
Rowe’s game in the finals
Saturday against the tall Rock
dale County team, coupled with
a fine performance in the semi
finals victory over Loganville,
earned him the honor for the
‘6l meet.
Although he wasn’t the high
scorer of the tournament
Rowe’s all-around job on both
boards aided his team in win
ning number 16 and 17
straight for Coach Ronald
Bradley’s charges.
Other members of the All-
Tournament team are as fol
lows:
BOYS: Billy Shaw (Rams),
Ronald Smith (Rockdale
County), James Taylor (Mor
can County) and Leonard
Shaw (Loganville).
GIRLS: Judv Willis (Lithon
ia), Dianne Moore (Newton
County), Roxie Garrett (So
cial Circle), Jo Jackson (Li
thonia), Carol George (Newton
County).
Tourney Notes—
Crowds at the Wednesday and
Thursday night games at the
NCHS gym were the smallest
in years for first-round games.
A share of thus may be attribut
ed to the fact that the Rams
d : d not play until Friday night.
They drew a bye because of the
seven-teams entered in the
tournament.
• • « *
Billy Crowell, Porterdake
Junior high coach, and Billy
Hooper, were the scorer and
timer for the games.
• • • •
Clay Harris of Social Circle
was one of the high-scorers in
first round games as he dropped
22 points. However, he fouled
out of the Social - Morgan
County game with two minu
utes to play and saw his team
lose 40-39
• • • •
Gary Rowe of Monroe shot
19 points of his team’s 27 to
tal in the game against Rock
dale County. The Rockdale
team turned back the Monroe
aggregation by a low score of
34-27 .
• * • *
Both Lithonia teams set a
presedent in the tournament
this year. They engaged in
overtime games for the first
time in the history of the eight
ALLAN ROWE
tournament meets. One — the
Lithonia - Social Circle girls’
game—was a triple overtime.
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There were three Shaws in
the tournament, all members
of boys’ teams. Billy is a mem
ber of the Newton Rams. Leon
ard and James are members of
the Loganville squad.
• • • •
Other than Coach Ronald
Bradley of the Rams the only
other mentor who is batting a
cool 1.000 per cent in the lo
cal tournament is Mike Cast
ronis, now the freshman foot
ball coach at the University of
Georgia. Mike was the coach
of the Winder girls in 1955 and
1956 when the Winder sextet
won the local cage event. He
had the famed Barnett girls on
his two championship teams.
Os course. Coach Bradley has
three straight wins.
• • * *
The Rams’ 45 points scored
in the finals against Rockdale
County was the lowest of the
year for the local high school
team. The lowest regular sea
son total was 46 against Mon
roe.
• • • •
For the first time since the
tournament was started in
1952 two boys having the same
last name made the All-Tour
nament team. They are Billy
Shaw of the Rams and Leonard
Shaw of Loganville. (See arti
cle elsewhere intoday’s News).
• • • •
High Single Game
Scoring In Meet
Willis (Lithonia) 28
Garrett (Soc. Circle) .... 23
Harris (Soc. Circle) 22
Bryant (Newton) 21
Conner (Soc. Circle) .... 21
Moore (Newton) 21
G. Rowe (Monroe) 19
L. Shaw (Loganville) .... 18
B. Shaw (Rams) 18
Whitlock (Morgan Co.) .. 19
Taylor (Morgan Co.) 18
M. McDonald (Lithonia) .. 16
B. Shaw (Rams) 16
McCullough (Rockdale) .. 15
Mitchell (Rams) 15
Ginn (Lithonia) 14
R. Smith (Rockdale) 13
Rockdale Principal Makes Trophy Awards
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NEWTON INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT championship trophies
are held by the two NCHS captains designate with James Hudson
(Center). Rockdale County School Principal, who made the trophy
presentations following the title games Saturday night. Bob Mitchell
of the Rams is shown at left, and Carole Bryant is at right.
A Prise-Winning
Newspaper
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Better Newspaper
Contests
Junior High
Cage Play
Resumes Tonight
Action in Newton County
junior high school basketball
circles will be resumed to
night (Thursday) after a lay
off of almost a week due to
the Invitational Tournament at
the NCHS gym.
Games scheduled for tonight
pits the Ficquett School teams
at Livingston, and Palmer-
Stone at Porterdale.
Livingston boys are present
ly undefeated and are leading
the junior high play in the
county. The Livingston girls
have lost one game, that to the
Palmer-Stone school.
In Business
Over 250 Years
Can any outboard motor
dealer claim he has been in
business for 250 years?
Well, Shannahan & Wright
son Hardware of Easton, Mary
land, can, even though the
outboard motor is not even a
century old.
This year Shannahan Si
Wrightson will celebrate its
250th year in business. But
boating had little to do with
their original business.
Founded in 1711 as a forge to
provide iron for the Easton
Court House construction,
Shannahan and Wrightson soon
began producing iron for other
purposes, then sold hardware
of various kinds. They have
been selling outboard motors
218 years later in 1929 when
they received a franchise as a
Johnson Motors dealer, on*
they’ve held for 32 years.
The present store is an out
growth of the early forge and
is reputed to be the oldest hard
ware store in America.
Another change of note for
the original iron foundry is
that the product they now sell
is cast mostly from aluminum!
Southern Bell
To Reward Two
STAR Students
A visit to Bell Laboratoriea
in Murray Hill, New Jersey,
will be given to two Georgia
high school students this spring.
This new award for excellence
in physical science is administ
ered through the Student
Teacher Achievement Recogni
tion (STAR) program and the
State Science Fair. The science
teachers of the winners will
accompany them.
The STAR program is based
on achievement on Scholastic
Aptitude Tests and is sponsor
ed by the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce. The most outstand
ing STAR student in physical
science will receive the new
award.
The State Science Fair is
sponsored by the Department
of Education. Preliminary fairs
are held in participating high
schools with the winners mak
ing a trip to Athens to enter
the State Science Fair. The out
standing winner in physical
science categories will go to
Bell Laboratories.
Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company will spon
sor the all-expense paid trip.
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