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Thursday, February 2, 1961
Back From Trip
To Chicago
Back home and once more
settled in the familiar routine are
two young ladies who spent a
week in the nation's second lar
gest city — Chicago.
They made the trip by virtue
of having two of the best 4-H
projects in the state for 1960.
Their destination was the Na
tional 4-H Club Congress.
Clair* Breedlove Linda Bazemore
They are Claire Breedlove, 18,
of Watkinsville, and Linda Baze
more, 17, of 116 Azalea ave., Sa
vannah.
Claire, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Breedlove, annexed
her state crown through a food
preparation program. A member
of the Oconee Senior 4-H Club
with an eight-year background in
4-H activities, she has lived on
I 700-acre farm—an ideal setting
tor pursuit of her food prepara-
Son goals,
She has held most of the offices
h her looal 4-H Club and was
president of the Oconee county
4H Council. She is now a student
at Thrift Chllege.
Miss Breedlove's Chicago trip
was arranged by Betty Crocker
of General Jills.
Linda, dighter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. lazemore, also has
been in 4-1 Club work eight
years. A seiior at Robert W.
Groves Higl School, she is a
member of Ue Garden City 4-H
Club.
She was aguest of Montgom
ery Ward ot; her jaunt to Chi
cago for exollence in the 4-H
home econoircs program.
The girls ure selected by the
Cooperative txtension Service,
which superises the 4-H pro
gram.
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News Notes From
Cornish
Mountain
By Mrs. Vester Moughon
Mrs. Lillie Stowe is a pa
tient at Walton County Hos
pital. Those visiting her Sun
day morning were Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Stowe, Mr. and Mrs. James
Knight, Dan Stowe, Jerry
Stowe, Love Stowe. Benny
Knight and Mr. and Mrs. Ves
ter Maughon.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Knight and
Mr. and Mrs. Mason Whitley
visited Mr. and Mrs. Colly Day
Tuesday night.
The preacher’s meeting at
Cornish Mountain Baptist
Church Saturday night Drov
ed to be a great blessing. Those
taking part in the service were
Rev. Jack Brooks. Rev Mar
vin Young and Rev. Sammy
Stephens.
The Cornish Mountain quar
tette visited the “Amazing
Grace” program on Radio Sta
tion WIMO in Winder Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kitchens
visited Mr. and Mrs. Acie Kit
chens Sunday afternoon.
David and Cindy Maughon
spent Sunday with their grand
parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Maughon.
Mr. and Mrs. Nimmo visited
Mr. and Mrs. Robin Hood
Thursday afternoon.
Little Marty Shepherd, ten
months old son, of Mr. and
Mrs. John Hue Shepherd is in
Newton County Hospital. Vis-
News Notes From
St a rrsri I io
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Dixon
were joined by their sister
Miss Ruby Dixon of Decatur
and Bernard Dixon of Char
lotte to attend the funeral ser
vices for their aunt in Millha
ven, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Maddox of
Carrollton were weekend guests
of their parents Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Mann.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson
attended the 4-H Banauet at
Ficquett Auditorium, Tuesday
evening.
Members of Hays Club held
their dress revue Wednesday
afternoon at the clubhouse,
prior to the annual county re
vue set for Friday in Coving
ton.
M. D. Mcßae continues to
improve following a recent ill
ness.
Mrs. Pearl Savage is ill at
her home. Friends are wishing
for her a speedy recovery.
J. E. Mann. Clarence Hen
derson and Joe Haymore spent
several days fishing in Florida
last week.
Miss Mary Jane Dixon and
several classmates from Mid
dle Georgia College spent the
weekend with her parents.
They were the guests of her
aunt, Miss Ruby Dixon, iz De
catur Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fair. Brannon
and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Aiken
visited Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ai
ken, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Mort Ewing
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mann
and their guests Sunday.
Mrs. W. L. Barber was pre
sent to represent Hays Club at
the county council planning
session Monday afternoon. This
group plans the vears work for
Demonstration Clubs.
itors Sunday night were Mrs.
Ruby Butler and girls. Mrs.
Otis Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs.
Vester Maughon and Mrs. Ho
ward Maughon.
Mr. and Mrs. James Knight
and Jimmy spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Knight.
Mr. and Mrs. Robin Hood
motored to Forsyth Saturday.
Lt is better to make a light
pruning of your pine trees
every year or two than to make
one heavy pruning, says Ex
tension Forrester Dorsey Dyer.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
BSA Head Cites
'6O Scout Record
At Banquet
| The year 1960 was one of the
busiest and most successful for
the Atlanta Area Council. Bov
Scouts of America, according to
the report given b” Mr. John
H. Stembier, President of t h e
Atlanta Area Council at t h e
Annual Dinner for the Districts
held last evening at the Dinkier
Plaza Hotel. He pointed o u t
that the year was the move
ment’s 50th Anniversary, and
one of our major projects was
an extensive campaign for the
Camp Development Fund. The
goal fo.r the fund was $1,247,-
500. The accomplishment was
in excess of $1,375,000 in cash
and pledges.
Mr. Stembier said that the
Atlanta Area Council now ser
ves a total of 21,632 boys in
Cub Scoutin c. Boy Scouts, and
Exploring. This total repre
sents an increase of 1,491 boys
over the close of 1959, he added.
There are now 291 Cub
Scout packs. 366 Boy Scout
Troops and 147 Explorer units
within the Atlanta Area Coun
cil. There is a net gain of 57
units over the previous year.
Serving these units and the
local council as adult volunteer
leaders are 7712 men. Together
with the 1725 women serving in
Cub Scouting as Den Mothers,
these persons represent an in
crease of 69 adult Scout lead
ers, making it possibly the lar
gest body of volunteers in any
one organization dedicated to
the cause of youth.
The National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America reported
from its headquarters in New
Brunswick. New Jersey that
1960 closed with 5,160,958 boys
and adult leaders enrolled on
December 31 last. This is an
all-time high in active mem
bership. Also, the 130,368 units
represent the largest total of
these “service stations for
youth” in its history.
In its fifty-one years the
Boy Scouts of America has
touched the lives of thirty-three :
million Americans.
A new record was established
in camping last year in the At
lanta Area Council. Camping
plays a vital part in a Scout’s
training. It provides adventure
and through camping boys grow
in body, mind, and spirit. Here
new skills are learned and
boys become better prepared
for the years ahead.
Last summer 3009 boys at
tended Camps Bert Adams and
J. K. Orr of the Atlanta Area ।
Council.
Yet, while this record at
tendance was chalked up at the
local council camps, the Atlanta
Area Council was well repre
sented by 166 Scouts, Explor
ers, and leaders at the greatest
single non-military encamp
ments in United States history.
This was the Fifth National
Jamboree which saw a new
2,500 acre tented city spring up
at Colorado Springs, Colarado.
There last July 22-28 some 58,-
986 boys and leaders camped
together.
On the weekend of the jam
boree, some 2000 other Scouts
who remained home took part
In the many jubilee camporees,
camping overnight. These were
held in all Districts.
A total of 4000 Cub Scouts
held jubilees - one day with
parents participating. These
were conducted in schoolyards,
playgrounds, parks, and pri
vate sites.
Older boy members, known
as Explorers, staged their own
field day, featuring contests
and demonstrations. Some 255
Explorers and leaders took part
at Lake Spivey.
Just before Election Day,
Scouts of the area called at
400,000 homes, leaving Liberty
Bell doorknob hangers urging
everyone eligible to vote. This
was the largest single one-dav
activity of the year. It was the
third consecutive nationwide
and non-partisan campaign
sponsored by the Boy Scouts
and Freedoms Foundation of
Valley Forge.
Other principal activities of
the Atlanta Area Council last
year were: Scouters Retreat,
Explorer Winter Encampment,
Explorer Ushers at Georgia
Tech.
“Don’t ask your money
where it went; tell it where to
go” by putting it into U. S.
Savings Bonds.
Egg cartons wrapped in cel
lophane caused egg sales to go
up by 12, 35, and 50 percent in
three chain stores.
When you buy U. S. Savings
Bonds where you work or
where you bank, you are in
vesting without risking your
money. The Treasury guaran
tees you good interest; there’s
no chance of loss.
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•Jarrett Manor, faded nut echoing its thrilling past, has
been included as one of the major tours during the Civil War
Frontier outpost, plantation home, stagecoach inn — this
rambling old house has weathered almost two centuries of stormy
history
A daring English gentleman. Jesse Walton, constructed his
home in 1782 despite the threats of savages who vowed that
civilization would never gam a foothold in the Blue Ridge.
The settler who carved it out of the wilderness at gun point,
paid for it later with his life and the lives of his family. To this
day there are dark stains in the old house, and grisley legend
holds they are the blood of the Jesse Waltons.
Jarrett Manor was never elegant. Its purpose was for
strength and protection.
Settled over an enormous cobblestone basement, this old
stagecoach inn covers a 3.000 square foot area. The basement con
tains kitchen, dining room, storerooms, wine cellar.
The hand hewn planking which encases the 2-story house
has never tasted paint The attie which tops the building is
studded with loopholes for rifles.
The downstairs floor is divided into four rooms and two
hallways, all spacious, all opening upon a broad front porch. John
C. Calhoun once sat on this porch. Joseph E. Brown spent his
honeymoon at this mn.
The second floor is broken into 13 rooms. They open one in
to another. There is no central hallway. Four stairways connect
the two floors. On one of the stairways is a secret room, intend
ed as a haven for the women and children in ease of attack. It
proved useless in fatal Indian strike.
Walton made his doors—the house contains 27—massive
enough to withstand a battering ram, and hung them on hinges
of wrought iron. He imported locks from England. The keys that
turn them, still in use. are big as tomahawks.
The house has oversized stone fireplaces and six toweri- i
chimneys. Walnut and chestnut panel the inside walls.
The Indians let Walton complete his home and settle in it.
Then they struck. For days the family beat off the attack but
the savages broke through, massaereing the entire household.
Much of the antique furniture is still intact—4-poster beds
fashioned in the Tugaloo valley, dovetailed blanket chest of pine
and walnut, split-oak bottomed chairs, a meat trough and a
rocking eradle both hollowed from solid logs, a homemade “ban
quet’’ table built of 8-foot-long walnut boards, a spinning wheel,
Revolutionary momentos and Confederate relics.
Jarrett Manor. 6 miles north of Toccoa on Highway 123. is
now a State Museum well worth a one-day trip. The hostess is
on hand to give you a first-rate Centennial tour through this old
estate.
One-Act Play
Cast at Rotary
The members of the cast of
the Newton County High
School One-Act play were
guests at the Covington Rotary
Club meeting Tuesday at the
Teen Can. Jim McKay was in
charge of the program.
Ranger Urqes
Tree Planting
In Newton County
Ranger James E. Pinson of
the Newton - Rockdale County
Forestry Unit said here this
week that approvimatelv 9,000
“idle acres’’ in Newton County
could be profitably planted in
trees.
“To date this season,” he
said, “landowners in our coun
ty have purchased 592.500
seedlings from the nurseries of
the Georgia Forestry Commis
sion. Last season, our landown
ers set out 2,294.000 seedings.
The ranger pointed out that
there is still an ample supply of
seedlings at the nurseries and
urges all landowners to con
sider planting the young trees
on abandoned fields, cut-over
forests, slopes and other non
productive areas.
He said planters can go di
rectly to the nursey to pick
up their order or orders can be
handled through the county
forest ranger, county agent,
ASC or SCS offices.
“Many new wood-using in
dustries moved into our state
in 1960 and more are expected
to locate in Georgia this year
and in the years to come,” the
ranger said. “These industries
demand a steady flow of forest
raw materials and the Com
mission feels that landowners
must continue to carry out a
strong reforestation program if
those needs are to be met.”
The local ranger, who said
“January and February are
excellent months in which to
plant trees,” termed the seed
lings this season “the best ever
produced in the state nurser
ies.”
He said, “Our nurseries are
equipped to fill both large and
small orders. . . the largest or
der from this county this sea
son was for 137,500 seedlings
and the smallest called for 500
trees.”
Nurseries are located near
Macon, Davisboro, Albany and
Reidsville.
Grower experience shows
that the small additional in
vestment of treating cotton seed
wwill pay dividends of many
dollars, says Extension Agron
omist W. H. Sell.
More Christmas tree seed
lings were planted in Georgia
in 1960 than in any previous
year, says Extension Forester
B. R Murray.
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Prof. Eddie Najjar of t h e
NCHS faculty, accompanied the
cast to the civic club meeting.
He spoke briefly.
Other guests at the meeting
Tuesday included. Charlie Da
vidson, Sr., Charlie Davidson,
Jr., and Everett Davidson, all
of Lithonia; George Boulineau,
also of Lithonia; Hulon Kit
chens of Monroe; and George
Dickinson of Decatur.
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Nation's Industry
Praised For Savings
Bonds Success
The Treasury Department
today paid tribute to Ameri
can industry for its outstand
ing support of the Savings
Bond Program over the past
20 years.
The salute to business recog
nized the participation in the
Payroll Savings plan by 45,000
companies, including many of
the largest in the country.
Under the Plan, employees are
enabled to buy bonds on a par
tial-payment plan through reg
ular payroll deductions.
The Plan is voluntary, with
the employee deciding what
amount he wants to save each
pay period. For low-income
workers, the amount saved can
be as little as $1.25 a week.
However, of the more than
eight million people now buy
ing bonds under the automatic
saving plan, the average is
about S2O a month.
“American industry has giv
en the Savings Bond Program
its greatest success,” William
H. Neal, National Director of
the Treasury’s Savings Bond
Program, declared in comment
ing on the salute to business.
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“The 45,000 American com
panies have.sold many billions
of dollars in Savings Bonds at
no cost to the taxpayer,” he
continued. “By operating the
Payroll Savings Plan, these
companies, big and small, are
helping to keep our country
strong. At the same time,
they’re helping eight million
people save automatically for
the things they want. America
owes a vote of thanks to these
companies for their outstand
ing contribution to the 20-
year success story of the U. S.
Savings Bond Program.”
The industry tribute appear#
as the second in a series of
monthly advertisements in Ob
servance of the 20th anniver
sary of the Savings Bond Pro
gram. The ad series, carried as
a public service of the news
paper industry, highlights tha
contributions of major volun
teer groups and institutions t®
the program’s success.