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To some, there is something
about a uniform: but, to us
there is something about “4 -
H Clubs”! The annual 4-H
Clubs Award Banquet is always
a community high-light: and
the fact that for 23 years we
felt very much a part of Ex
tension and 4-H Club Work,
with our partner-in-life, who
is a Master 4-H’er, as well as
a former county agent, serves
to deepen our appreciation of
the achievements of this group
of outstanding young people.
Dickey George, Newton
County 4-H Club Council nre
sident was master of ceremon
ies for the Tuesday night
Awards Banquet; and dis
charged the duties of that of
fice in true 4-H Club style. The
guest speaker for the occasion.
Miss Eddye Ross, found a dou
ble measure of warmth in her
welcome, from a wide circle of
friends, formed during her
former years here as Newton
County Home Demonstration
Agent.
In 4-H Clubbers, both boys
and girls, one finds something
of the stability of the soil
itself. Because they love the
soil, and spend much time
working with it, they learn in
their youth, many irrevocable
lessons which it takes some of
us almost a lifetime to learn.
They learn, from childhood,
that one reaps the fruit of the
seed he puts in the soil. He does
not expect to harvest grapes
from a cucumber seed, no mat
ter how well he prepares the
soil in his garden. Nor, does he
even expect good cucumbers,
unless he has first prepared the
seed bed, properly planted the
seed, followed correct methods
of cultivation and harvesting.
In short, with his first garden,
he has learned, first hand, that
he will harvest the specific kind
of product that he, through his
own efforts, has produced. It
takes many years for some of
us to learn this lesson — that
we actually reap what we sow.
Another factor in the de
velopment of the 4-H’ers char-
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Landscape School
Monday At Leqion
Home, 1:30 P.M.
T. G. Williams, Extension
Landscape Specialist, Univer
sity of Georgia, College of Ag
riculture, Athens, will be on
hand Monday, February 6th,
1:30 P.M. at the American Le
gion Home for a landscape
meeting. He will present his
program to a joint meeting of
the Home Demonstration Clubs
and the Garden Clubs of New
ton County.
There have been many new
homes built in Newton County
making the interest run high
in a program of this type. A
large number of home-owners
desiring a plan for relocation
of shrubbury around homes
existing for several year is in
greater demand. Mr. Williams
will discuss plans for these sit
uations.
Sleet, Snow
Covered Area
Sleet and snow severely
crippled the normal business
and school activities in New
ton and surrounding counties
last Thursday through Satur
day.
A driving rain last Wednes
day night turned to sleet, and
was followed by snow Thurs
day morning. Icy-conditions of
the roads caused the turning
out of school for Thursday and
Friday. Classes were resumed
as usual on Monday, January
30.
Several of the commercial
plants in the area were closed
Thursday due to the trans
portation problem. Among
them were the Covington Man
ufacturing Company and Li
thonia Lighting Products Com
pany of Conyers.
Ice and snow covered many
of the streets in Covington
Thursday and Friday. Crews
of City workmen shoveled
mow on Saturday, getting the
thoroughfares back in shape
for a normal flow of traffic.
Jack Chapman, local weath
erman, reported that the low
temperature reading in the city
came early Saturday morning
when 16 degrees was noted.
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Dr. F
Drive Will
Be Launched
In February
Dr. Harry W. Faulkner, Cov
ington physician and civic
leader, has been named chair
man for the 1961 Heart Fund
campaign in Newton County.
The announcement of Dr.
Faulkner’s appointment was
made this week by Mrs. Helen
Dickinson, chairman of the
Newton County Heart Coun
cil.
“We of the heart council are
delighted to have a man of Dr.
Faulkner’s ability and interest
as our Heart Fund leader,”
Mrs. Dickinson said, “and for
this reason we believe the 1961
campaign will be one of the
most successful ever held in
Newton County.”
Dr. Faulkner is an active
member of the Georgia Heart
Association and has assisted the
GHA in many of its projects,
particularly in the area of
stroke rehabilitation.
He and other doctors of the
medical staff of Newton Coun
ty Hospital were instrumental
in the establishment of t h e
Newton County Stroke Clinic,
a stroke education facility that
has aided numerous patients
and which has won GHA hon
ors for the clinic and heart
council leaders.
Currently, Dr. Faulkner is a
member of the heart associa
tion’s committee on cardiac re
habilitation.
Mrs. Dickinson pointed out
that the Heart Fund campaign,
conducted each February, is
the Georgia Heart Association’s
only appeal for funds with
which to fight the heart and
blood vessel diseases, blamed
each year for the deaths of
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Aptly Spoken
And Printed
u . . . . Having nothing to
offer the Cuban people but
the unhappy fact that he is
power, Castro has sought to
make hating America a posi
tive policy ....
“Again, America and all
free lands must hope, that as
it becomes daily clearer he
does not serve those aspira
tions but only his own and
the Communists’, the Cuban
people will repulse him and
cast him into the oblivion
where all political fakers and
petty tyrants belong.”
—Sterling (Ill.) Gazette
Snow Aaain Hits Covinpton And Newton County
COVINGTON SNOW SCENE in Academy Springs Park is shown in the picture above Thursday
soon after the city and cointy were blanketed in freezing temperature. Some of the snow and
ice was still evident in Covington yesterday (Wednesday) as The News went to press.
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MISE SATURDAY AT 'PHONE BUILDING
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Kner Chairman Heart Fund
Telephone Long Lines Communications Center At Salem To Be Shown Saturday
OPEN HOUSE Saturday from 3 until 8 p. m. marks the first
occasion the general public will have to view the facilities of the
$8,000,000 installation of the American Telephone and Telegraph
Emory Alumni
Set Birthday
Dinner Feb. 11
Emory Alumni, wives or hus
bands, students, parents of
Emory students, and friends of
the University in the Monroe -
Covington-Oxford District will
celebrate the 124th birthday of
Emory College and the forty -
sixth birthday of Emory Uni
versity with a dinner on Satur
day evening, February 11, at 7
p. m., in Haygood Dining Hall
on the Emory-at-Oxford cam-
pus.
Club Presi
lent. C. C. King,
Jr., of Coving
ton, will pre
side. Other of
ficers of the
club are: Rev.
Harry L. Wood,
Monroe, vice
president; and
Pro f. W. A. chas. King
Carlton. Oxford, secretary -
treasurer. Immediate past
president is J. E. Briscoe, Jr.,
of Monroe.
Newton County’s own Dr.
James T. Cook will speak. Dr.
Cook was recently named
“General Practitioner of t h e
Year” by the American Medical
Assn. An Emory alumnus, Dr.
Cook practices in Marianna, Fla.
He is the first Emory man to
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COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1961
Bill Allgood
Speaker Al
Kiwanis Today
Bill Allgood. Chief of Meth
ods and Training and Informa
tion Services of the Georgia
Department of Labor, will be
the guest speaker at the Cov
ington Kiwanis Club luncheon
meeting today (Thursday), at
Legion Home at 1 o’clock.
The introduction of the
speaker today will be handled
by Dean V. Y. C. Eady of Em
ory-at-Oxford. Mr. Allgood is
a native of Oxford.
Having recently attended the
White House Conferences on
Aging in Washington, D. C„
Mr. Allgood is expected to tell
the Kiwanians some of the
problems and solutions dis
cussed at the conference. He
attended as a special represen
tative of Georgia Labor Com
missioner Ben T. Huiet.
Mr. Allgood will also tell
the local club about the work
being carried on by the Geor
gia Department of Labor.
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Prof. Nelson Hoffman, a
member of the Emory -At-Ox-
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Company at Salem. The center serves eight Southern states and
can handle more than 40,000 calls a day.
Dr. Goodwin Tuck
On Education Assn.
Program Tuesday
The Newton County Educa
tion Association will meet at
the Newton County High
School Auditorium on Tues
day. February 7, at 4 p.m.
“What classroom teachers
and the family
physician can
do together in
meeting em o
tional needs of
chi 1d r e n and
young people
in the absence
of psychologi
cal and psychi-
atric services”. Dr. Tuck
will be the topic for discus
sion. Dr. Goowin Tuck will
serve as the consultant during
this meeting.
Valentine Carnival
At Porterdale
February 13th
PORTERDALE—A Valentine
Carnival will be held at the
Porterdale School on February
13 from six to nine o’clock.
Interesting exhibits and ac
tivities will be in each of the
nineteen classrooms. One room
will have the concession stand
also. To climax the festivities,
a queen and king from the
first four grades and a queen
and king from the fifth
through eighth grades will be
crowned in special ceremonies
at the Porter Gymnasium. Boys
and girls are busy collecting
votes for their favorite candi
dates.
Proceeds will be designated
by the P-TA, sponsoring or
ganization. for use in the Por
terdale school.
Everyone is urged to attend
and participate in the fun.
Stroke Clinic
Friday 1 P. M.
The Newton County Stroke Clin
ic will be held Friday afternoon at
the Covington City Hall at 1 o’-
clock.
It has been announced that the
future meetings will be held every
week
At the meeting this week a film
and individual instructions will be
shown and demonstrated.
Miss Reeves
Guest Speaker
Math Conference
Miss Louise Reeves, Director
of Curriculum of Newton
County Schools, will be a guest
speaker at the Fourth Annual
Conference of Teachers of
Mathematics at Rock Eagle
Park, February 10-11.
The Conference will be held
at Rock Eagle 4-H Center. The
theme for the conference this
year is “The Place of Arith
metic in the Total Mathematics
Program.” The conference is
jointly sponsored by the Geor
gia Mathematics Council and
the State Department of Edu
cation. Elementary and secon
dary teachers from all parts of
the state will be in attendance.
The conference will begin on
Friday evening with a dinner
meeting at 6:30. Dr. M. K. Fort,
Head of Mathematics Depart
ment, University of Georgia,
will be the speaker. A program
concerning the use of teaching
aids will follow the dinner
meeting.
The conference on Saturday
will consist of a dual track
program for the elementary
school group and the secondary
school group. An outstanding
group of guest speakers will
apoear on the program.
The speakers are: Dr. David
Wells. Director of Mathemat
ics Education, Pontiac, Michi
gan: Mrs. Mary Tulock, Mathe
matics Specialist, U. S. Office
of Education: Mr. Jude Robin
son, Associate Professor of
Mathematics, Auburn Uni
versity; Miss Martha Hilde
brandt .Emory University; Dr.
Sara Nelson, Head of Mathema
tics Deoartment, GSCW; and
Miss Louise Reeves, Director of
Curriculum, Covington, Geor
gia.
One-Act Play
Third in State
Newton County High’s One-
Act Play “Helena’s Husband”
was judged third in the state
Class AA contest at Athens
Saturday. Newnan High was
the first - place school and
Calhoun was second.
The local cast won the Re
gion 4AA title here two weeks
ago.
Nurses To Meet
The Newton County Regis
tered Nurses Association will
meet Monday night, February
6, at the Newton County Hos
pital at 7:30 o'clock.
Guided lours 3-8 PM At
SB-Million Salem Center
Open House will be held Saturday at the Rockdale Tele
phone Building on Salem Road from 3 p. m. until 8 p. m.,
according to an announcement by Ray Reece, local office
manager of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
Gospel Sing
Program Here
Next Thursday
A Gospel Sing program will
be presented at the Newton
County High School auditori
um Thursday evening, Feb
ruary 9th starting at 8 o’clock.
Several prominent singing
groups will appear on
the program including The
Harmoneers, The Sunshine
Boys and Big Jim Waits. Os
special interest will be the ap
pearance of two home-county
men who are famous as gos
pel singers. Fred Daniel, form
erly of Porterdale and Wal
lace (Happy) Edwards of Cov
ington will be present.
Advance tickets are on sale
at Wood-Dickinson Furniture
Company in Covington.
Fred Daniel’s success in
stage, television and radio has
been hailed by lovers of good
gospel music the nation over.
Fred was born in Porterdale
and attended grammer and
high school there. For
several years he was em
ployed by the Bibb Mfg. Co.
before entering the Navy for
two years in 1944. Fred’s moth
er, two sisters and three broth-
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Boy Scout Camp
Development
Pledges Lag
Announcement has been
made by B. B. Snow, Finance
Chairman of the Camp Devel
opment Fund for Newton-
Rockdale District Boy Scouts
of America, that payments
against the pledges made by
residents of the two counties
is far beyond expectations.
Newton - Rockdale District
has collected less money, per
centage-wise, than any of the
areas of the Atlanta Area
Council BSA. Eighteen and
seven-tenths percent of the
total has been collected locally.
Newton - Rockdale district
pledged $153,944.45 in the
drive for the BSA Camp and
Reservation to be located just
South of Covington off the
Jackson Highway. Collected
thus far is the sum of $28,481.-
74.
Ginn Elected
Chairman Local
Service Board
Meadors
H. F Meadors has been ap
pointed a member of the Se
lective Service System, Local
Board, Covington, Ga.
S. A Ginn who has served
as a member for 16 years has
been elected Chairman of the
Board. L. J. Moore, a member
of the Board, has served for
8 years.
Mrs. Alma V. Jordan, Clerk
of the Board, presented resolu
tions on the passing of “our
respected Chairman the late
Dr. W. K. Swann.” The reso
-luti on s were unamimously
adopted by the Board.
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
The occasion Saturday is the
first time since the huge build
ing has been in operation that
the general public will have an
opportunity to see the many
departments of the 3-story
structure. It is one of four such
communication centers in the
United States.
Southern Bell and the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph
Company are joint hosts at the
open house Saturday. Refresh
ments will be served and guid
ed tours will be conducted
throughout the five - hour
period. Mr. Reece stated that
the entire family is invited to
view the facilities at the cen
ter. Heretofore, civic grouos
were permitted to view only
part of the installations at the
center.
The center was completed in
the summer of 1960 and cost
$8,000,000. It is owned and
operated by the Long Lines De
partment of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company.
H. K. Kiser, Georgia Plant
Supt., Atlanta, said the center
“houses close to $7 million of
intricate electronic and me
chanical equipment designed to
speed more than 40,000 long
distance calls a day in and out
of eight southern states.” The
states are Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Georgia, North
Carolina, Louisiana and parts of
Tennessee.
Rockdale, as the center is
called, works as a southern dis
tributing point for both custo
mer - dialed and operator •
dialed calls from all over the
50 United States, Puerto Rico
and Canada. It receives them
from the Atlanta Ring, a radio
relay route encircling Atlanta
about a 25 mile radius, and the
east - west Atlanta - Augusta
underground cable.
Equipment at Rockdale ma
chanicaily interprets dialed
telephone numbers, determines
a call’s route of travel, selects
an idle circuit and sends th*
call on to its destination.
Automatic long distance tele
phone service offers the advan
tages of greater speed and ac
curacy.
The Rockdale telephone cen
ter is a major point in th*
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company's nation-wide
Direct Distance Dialing plan
which enables customers to dial
any place in the United States,
Canada or Puerto Rico with
out the help of an operator.
Because of its location well
outside of industrial Atlanta,
Rockdale can continue to pro
vide long distance telephone
service even if other closer-in
telephone centers are disabled
in a national emergency.
In the recent judgement of
281 telephone buildings across
the country, the two- story
concrete Rockdale center was
one of 17 buildings to receive
an honor award for excellence
of design at low cost. Judge
ments were made on the basis
of intrinsic architectural excel
lence. appropriateness to sur
round-over-all appearance and
cost.
Rev James Speer
Returns To Pulpit
Sunday, 11 A. M.
Reverend James V. Speer,
pastor of the Covington Mills
Methodist Church, will preach
his first sermon since his
illness of many months, Sun
day February sth at 11 a.m.
Rev. Speer underwent sur
gery at Emory University Hos
pital in Atlanta in September.
Members and friends are
cordially invited to attend the
service Sunday.
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