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“Happy Birthday” carried
double significance on Satur
day evening at Emory at Ox
ford’s Annual Birthday Ban
quet—not only in the tribute
loyal alumni paid their Alma
Mater upon her 124th birth
day; but, in the opportunity of
also extending greetings to
Mrs. James T. Cook, Jr., whose
birthday fell on the same day,
and whose husband was the
evening’s guest speaker.
As always, it was a delight
ful occasion. The realization of
alumni that they were verita
ble links in the chain of his
tory—between the intellectual
and spiritual ideals upon
which Emory was founded, and
the challenge of the world
they face, was almost a tangi
ble factor.
Dr. Cook, guest speaker,
crystalized this realization in
his provocative message, which
sounded a warning relative to
the trend our national govern
ment is taking; and urged his
hearers to face and shoulder
their intellectual and civic re
sponsibilities in realistic con
cern and action toward ad
herence to law as set up in the
Constitution, rather than vari
ous expedient interpretations
thereof, by vote-seeking poli
ticians.
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Newton's Farm
Bureau Meeting
Tuesday 7:30 P.M.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Farm Bureau will be
held Tuesday, February 21 at
7:30 at Henderson’s Restau
rant. This will be a dinner
meeting (wives invited) so
please order before coming.
Mr. Mark Faulk, district di
rector and Mrs. Troy Barton,
field director from the State
offices will be in charge of the
meeting. An interesting topic |
has been set up for this meet- i
ing, which should be of special ,
interest to the ladies.
Junior High Tournament
Underway At Porterdale
Junior high school boys bas
ketball teams of Newton Coun
ty will see action tonight
(Thursday) at the Porterdale
gymnasium in the 1961 ele
mentary school playoffs for the
championship of the county.
Two girls games were play
ed last night (Wednesday) with
the winners advancing into the
finals on Saturday night. No
games are scheduled for Friday
night due to the Newton Coun
ty High School teams playing
their final home game of the
season.
For the first time in many
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BOY SCOUT OFFICIALS look over an aerial-view map of the new Camp Bert Adams which is
under constriction seven miles South of Covington. BSA leaders conducted the program at Covington
Kiwanis Club's weekly luncheon meeting Thursday at Legion Home. Shown in the photo from left to
right: Simon Smith, deputy executive of Atlanta Area Council BSA; S. J. Morcock, program chm. for
the Kiwanis Club; O. B. (Country) Gorman, executive of the Atlants Area Council and main speak
er on the program; E. G. Lassiter, Jr., Newton-Rockdale Distri chairman; and Julian Thomas.
Scoutmaster of T.oo p 222 which is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
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VOLUME 97
JA' &E WOOD, MRS. BURKE STAR HONOREES
W. B.K .pson, Hugh Harris To
Head Local Red Cross Fund Drive
The Newton County Board
of Directors of the American
Red Cross Association met for ।
lunch at the home of the chair-
Super Highway
Route Hearing
Tuesday 10 A.M.
A Public Hearing will be
held Tuesday, February 21 at
10 A. M. at the Newton Coun
ty Courthouse on the proposed
location of National Interstate
Highway 20 through Newton
County and Covington.
According to a legal ad
vertisement in The Covington
News last week the hearing
“will afford any interested
person or group of persons to
be heard in connection with the
proposed location of a portion
of National Interstate High
way 20 in Newton and Wal
ton Counties.”
The Interstate project
through Covingto.n is to be a
four-lane (divided) Standard
Design Limited Access High
way.
According to highway maps
released recently by the State ■
Highway Department of Geor- |
gia there will be two inter
changes in the area of Coving
ton. One is to be located at the
western edge of the city of
Covington and the other at 1
Hazelbrand near the Walton
County line. I
years there doesn’t seem to be
a favorite in either firls or boys
bracket. All the teams in the
tourney have lost at least one
game during the regular sea
son round - robin play.
Defending champions in the
girls division is the Livingston
sextet coached by B. M. Pa
den. Boys defending champion
is Porterdale coached by Billy
Crowell.
Other mentors of teams en
tered in the meet are: Mrs.
Frances Rowland, Ficquett
School girls; L. G. Carney, Fic
quett boys; Melvin Criswell,
Qty?
] man, Mrs. Dan Clower, Wed
nesday February Bth.
W. B. Thompson, Manager
of the Dodge Wire Corp, ac
cepted the Chairmanship of the
Red Cross Fund Drive, with
Hugh Harris as Vice Chair
man and the board to act as
the committee. Plans for the
drive were discussed.
The chairman asked for re
ports: Mr. Marshall Elizer,
chairman Blood Program, re
ported the next Bloodmobile
will be March 2nd. and that
plans were progressing for a
successful program.
Mrs. Edith David, treasurer
I gave her report for the year.
Dr. Harry Faulkner report
ed that Newton County Red
Cross Nurses Aids were suc
cessfully used at the Stroke Re
hibilitation Clinic, held in Cov
ington. There are 50 Red Cross
Nurses Aids trained at the
Newton County Hospital.
Mrs. Frances Dukes, of At
lanta, volunteer Field Repre
sentative was introduced and
gave the Board a very infor
mative talk on the work of the
Red Cross.
Temperature
Hits 70's
High Low
Wed. Feb. 8, 41 33
Thurs. Feb. 9. 49 36
Fri. Feb. 10, 54 24
Sat. Feb. 11. 62 28
Sun. Feb. 12. 74 37
Mon. Feb. 13, 72 40
Tues. Feb. 14. 73 45
Rainfall during the month
has been 1.07 inches,
Livingston boys; James Bohan
non, Palmer-Stone boys and
girls. Crowell also coaches both
teams at Porterdale.
Games tonight (Thursday)
pits Ficquett against the Por
terdale team at 7 o’clock; and
the Livingston team goes
against Palmer - Stone at 8
O’clock.
Finals Saturday night in
girls play will start at o’clock
(consolation) and the champ
ionship game at 8 P. M. Boys
teams will play at 7 o’clock
(consolation) and 9 P. M. the
big game.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1961
STAR Student And Teacher To Be Honored Today
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STAR STUDENT AND TEACHER at Newton Ciunty High School award winners were announced
yesterday by officials of the local program. Miss Janelle Wood and Mrs. L. M. Burke are the
honorees. Shown in the photo above from left to right: Homer Sharp, Supervising Principal at
NCHS; Mrs. Burke: Miss Wood; and George Hutchinson, chairman of the Niwanis Club's boys and
girls committee. Mr. Hutchinson will make the presentation of th* certificates at th* Kiwanis
Club meeting today at Legion Home at 1 o'clock.
Newton County Teachers
Ask Salary Supplement
The Newton County Teachers
AsapeiaUon m a meeting
Tuesday at the high school au
ditorium passed a resolution
asking for a supplement to
their salary.
Main speaker for the meet
j ing was E. C. Mitcham, Presi
dent of the Georgia Education
Association.
The resolution adopted fol
lows:
WHERAS the average salary
of teachers in Newton County
is $3604.39 as compared with a
state - wide average of $4038.
00; and
WHEREAS the Newton
' County Schools are unable to
compete with surrounding
school systems in employing
qualified teachers; and
WHEREAS the Newton
| County Schools have operated
on their present budget largely
because of the numbers of lo
cal teachers employed and
WHEREAS this supply gives
(evidence of expiring; and
WHEREAS the members of
this organization feel that the
children of Newton County are
entitled to the best possible ed
ucation today and in the future;
and
WHEREAS the teachers of
Newton County realize that the
Board of Education is paying
as large a salary as is possible I
with its present income; there
fore be it
RESOLVED that the Newton
County Education Association
place itself on record as re
questing that the Newton
Codnty Board of Education
grant the teachers of Newton
County a supplement to the
state salary; and be it further;
RESOLVED that the Newton ;
County Education Association
place itself on record as sug
gesting that the necessary re- ;
venue for such an increase oe
obtained through a reassess-.
ment of property values and
that they pledge themselves to
work diligently with the Board
and the County Commissioner
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Knights Templar
To Meet Monday
Regular Convocation of Cov- j
ington St. Bernard Command
ery No. 25, K. T., will be held i
Covington Masonic Temple,
Monday, February 20th at 7:30
P. M.. to read for the Second
time the new By-Laws. Busi
ness for the good of the Order.
Order of the Red Cross and
Order of Melta will be confer
red by Sir Knights E G. Lassi- j
ter, Jr., and Howard Brooks. 1
All Sir Knights urged to attend.
Visitors welcome.
■
I ' Businessmen
►
Re-Elect Fowler
As President
Covington Businessmens’ As
sociation, at their annual stock
holders meeting Monday held
in conjunction with the regular
monthly meet- g
ing of the New- I
ton County!
Chamber of I
Commerce, re- I
elected Robert I
R. Fo w 1e r as I
president fori
the coming]
year. I
The meeting, held at the
Buck-N-Kid Restaurant, was
one of the best-attended meet
ings in months. Some 48 mem
bers attended the dinner and
business session that followed.
Dan Clower, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, presid
ed at the first meeting. A vis
itor. Mrs. Robert Fowler, made
a brief talk and explained the
functions and aims of the
newly-organized Newton Hos
pital Auxiliary. She announced
| that a giant Fourth of July
‘ Bazaar’’ was planned for Le
gion Field and invited the C.
and C. to make preparations to
' stage some sort of a show,
game or entertainment in that
' project.
Taking up most of the dis
cussion time at the meeting
I was the routine of the pro
. posed Superhighway Number
■2O through Covington. City
Clerk Harry Cowan was call
ed upon to make a report of
I the proposed route of the high
way. He showed two recent
maps from the State Highway
Department showing the latest
route via Waters’ Hill and
Hazelbrand. It was reported
।by Newton County Rep. Don
Ballard that several routes
have been surveyed through
Covington.
A motion was made and
passed to the effect that Presi-
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COVINGTON NEWS!
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Today’
1
World Prayer Day
Here Friday At
Episcopal Church
“Forward Through the
Ages” is the theme of the
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary ob
servance of the World Day of
Prayer. The churenes of the
Covington and Oxford com
munities will join in a union
service to be held Friday even
ing at 7:30 o’clock at the
Church of the Good Shepherd
in Covington.
The churches of the com
munity will remain open
throughout the day for those
who desire to join fellow be
lievers throughout the world
in individual prayer.
Church bells will ring at in
tervals as a reminder of the
call to prayer.
Born in 1887 and observed
in one country, today the
World Day of Prayer is ob
served in 145 counties
throughout the earth.
12 Teen-Age I
Negroes Are
Arrested Here
Covington Police arrested 12
teen-age Negroes over the
weekend and charged them |
with several local robberies
that spanned at least two
months.
Breakins of many business
firms in the county have been
reported with the most recent
robbery being the Sherwood
Flowers and Gift Shop on
Floyd Street in Covington. This
firm was robbed on two suc
cessive nigthts of an undeter
mined amount of cash from
the register.
Other places linked to the
teen-agers by local police and
the Georgia Bureau of Investi
gation include: Patrick Feed
and Seed Company. George
Allen Cleaners. Duke’s Hobby
Shop, Vaughn’s Pawn Shop, I
Freezer Locker, R. L. Cousins
School and Washington Street
School.
Covington Police reported '
that more arrests may be made
on other robberies in the coun- h
ty during the past year. ||
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
Awards To Be Presented
Today At Kiwanis Meeting
Janelle Wood has been named the 1961 STAR STUDENT
for the Newton County school system area, the Covington
Kiwanis Club announced this week. The STAR STUDENT
is a f at Newton County High School.
James S. Peters
Guest Speaker
Kiwanis Today
Guest speaker at the regular I
weekly luncheon meeting of
Covington Kiwanis Club today
(Thursday) will be James S.
Peters of Manchester, Chair
man of the State Board of Edu
cation. The meeting is set for
1 o’clock at the American Le
gion Home.
Homer F. Sharp, Supervising
Principal of Newton County
High School is in charge of the
program today.
Mr. Peters subject today will
be “Problems Facing Newton
County Schools.”
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Covington Kiwanians heard
a heart-warming talk by O. B.
(Country) Gorman, Boy Scout
Executive of the Atlanta Area
Council, Thursday at the regu
lar weekly luncheon meeting
of the club.
Mr. Gorman, much sought
after-dinner speaker, was in
troduced by E. G. Lassiter, Jr.,
Newton - Rockdale District
Chairman of the Boy Scouts of
America. The program was
arranged by S. J. Morcock.
The BSA executive lauded
the Covington Kiwanis club
members for their “role in the
past 15 years in Boy Scout
work.”
During his speech Mr. Gor
man stressed the spiritual as
pect of “including God in your
plans.” He told of the nation
ial BSA Committees’ adoption
| of the slogan a few years ago
I "Onward For God and My
Country.” Mr. Gorman was a
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Cake Sale In
Covington Sat.
The ladies of Red Oak Meth
odist Church will have a cake
sale Saturday, February 18 be
ginning at 10 o’clock in front
of the Courthouse. All cakes
will be sold from there.
Stroke Clinic
Friday 1 P. M.
The Stroke Clinic will be '
held Friday at City Hall, start- ,
ing at 1 o’clock.
Special instructions will be'
given new patients who at- j
tend.
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CONSTRUCTION WORKERS are shown installing the 24 incl
drain pipe in the 58 acre lake that has been built at the Bert Adam;
Boy Scout Reservation near Covington. The lake is fed by tw.
। tree’ s from its north end. Scouting officials are hopeful that th.
I lake will fill within 12 months. (More pictures next week)
NUMBER 7
, The STAR STUDENT h a s
selected Mrs. L. M. Burke,
i teacher at Newton County Hign
School, as her STAR TEACH
ER, the teacher who made th®
greatest contribution to t h e
students scholastic achievement.
1 Miss Wood serves as STAR
STUDENT for both Newton
j County high school and the
Newton County school system
area.
The announcements were
, made as a part of the Student
Teacher Achievement Recogni
tion (STAR) program, spon
sored statewide by the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce,
and in the Newton Coun’y
school system area by Coving
ton Kiwanis Club. The program
is designed to encourage and
to honor scholastic achievement
throughout Georgia.
Designated of STAR students
was based on top ranking scor
es they made on the recent
December College Board Scho
lastic Aptitude Test and scho
lastic averages during her sen
ior year as of Jan. 1, 1961.
Winners at the School Sys
tem Area level and their STAR
TEACHERS will be honored at
a special State Chamber of
Commerce STAR luncheon in
Atlanta on April 7th. and given
a tour of the city. Immediately
thereafter, district area STAR
S T U D E N T S and STAR
TEACHERS will be given a
free, weeklong educational tour
of the State.
Jim McKay
Resumes Work
J T. McKay, veteran with
the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Company, has returned
to his duties at the office here
after an absence of about a
year, due to illness.
The many friends of McKay
are glad to welcome him back
to his office and wish for him
continued good health.
Aptly Spoken
And Printed
“Social life, becoming ever
more complicated and inter
dependent, demands disci
plined behavior from all par
ticipants. Carried to the ex
treme, this discipline can
lead to the virtual slavery
enforced by communist dic
tatorships. Omitted altogeth
er, the lack of discipline re
sults in anarchy. The role of
the educator, whether par
ent or teacher, is to point the
golden mean between th*
two.”
—(Felix .Morley in Na
tion’s Business)