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Sunday is set aside by our
creator, as a day of rest and
worship. At the end of this
special week, there is a very
special Sunday ... set aside
by man ... as “Mother’s Day.”
A day when families worship
together in their churches . . .
but it is most always the day
when “Mother’s” loving hands
are the ones preparing a great
feast for the children who have
come to be with her on this
day. We do not have this plea
sure as our children live too
far to come for so shcrt a time,
and get the children back in
school on Monday they think
. . . . However, we call
“Thanksgiving Day” our
“Mother’s” day for that is the
day we have the joy of having
all our families with us . . .
Oh there have been as many
as 26 and that was wonderful.
Yes, we claim that one day for
our very own. You will get
this in time to send that special
letter to your Mother on her
day . . . sometimes bbys and
girls, men and women, get
careless about a special letter
on that day, but most of them
do think to send a card and
a gift on that day to the pre
cious Mother they still have
with them.
Those of you, who have your
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REV. CASSIDY
Rev. Carl E. Cassidy began
his ministry as pastor of Cal
vary Baptist Church Sunday,
May 7. Rev. Cassidy is a gradu
ate of Norman Park College and
the Southern Seminary, Louis
ville, Kentucky. He has served
as pastor of Cross Keys Bap
tist Church in Macon and Cave
Springs Baptist Church.
Rev. and Mrs. Cassidy are
now at home in the church pas
torium 302 North Dearing St.,
Covington. They are the pa
rents of a daughter Miss Jane
Cassidy, who is a senior at Tift
College.
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VOLUME 97
COUNr SCHOOL BOND VOTE WEDNESDAY
Athe Man Robbed, Shot In Highway Holdup
Two Royston Men Held
After Fast Police Work
Eagle-eyed, quick-thinking law enforcement officials of
Newton County and the City of Covington were credited
with the apprehension of two men charged with robbery
by force Monday afternoon after Wendell Kesler, Southern
Bell Telephone employee of Athens was robbed and shot
Music Club Meets
Tonight in Oxford
The May meeting of the
Covington Music Club will
be held tonight (Thursday)
at 8 o’clock at the Church
School Building of the Allen
Memorial Church in Oxford.
The Madrigal Singers of
the Georgia State College
For Women, Milledgeville,
will furnish the program.
Gospel Meeting
Church of Christ
Starts Monday
A series of Gospel Meetings
starting at 8 o’clock each even
ing is scheduled at the Cov
ington Church of Christ from
Monday, May 15 through Wed
nesday, May 24.
Preaching at the services will
be Gene Arnold of Montgom
ery, Alabama. Mr. Arnold is a
native of East Tennessee and
has served as the minister of
a Montgomery congregation
for the past several years.
The Covington church, lo
cated across the highway from
the Lawnwood Memorial Park
on the New Atlanta Highway,
was started in January 1955.
Services are held each Lord’s
Day at 11 a. m. and 6 p. m.
and on Wednesday evening at
7:30 o’clock.
A cordial invitation is ex
tended to the public to attend
the services at the church.
Cake Sale
Set Saturday
The members of the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service
and the ladies of the North
Covington Methodist Church
will sponsor a Cake Sale Sat
urday morning, May 13 on the
Square in front of the Court
house.
The sale will begin at nine
o’clock. The proceeds will be
used to send the officers of
the MYF to Camp.
dnutttgintt Kann
just off U. S. Highway 278 in
the Brick Store community.
Now being held in the local
jail are two Royston, Ga. men
charged in the robbery and
shooting crime. They are Dan
Sheridan, about 30, and Leo
Graham, 52.
Kesler was shot in the neck
and back by the men after
they blocked Highway 278 and
forced Kesler from his car at
pistol - point. Taken into the
woods Kesler was robbed, and
forced to write out a SIOO
check. Then he was shot and
fell to the ground. He wrestled
the gun from Sheridan and
beat him with it while the other
robber fled.
The robbery happened about
1 p. m. and by 4:30 the two
men were in custody of the lo
cal law agencies. Sheridan was
arrested on the Public Square
in Covington about 2 o’clock
by Covington City police.
Bloodhounds were summoned
from Eatonton and Graham was
apprehended not far from the
scene of the crime after he had
apparently lost directions.
Kesler, after making his
way back to his car on t h e
highway, drove to the Hub
Junction and called the New
ton County Sheriffs’ office.
Sheriff Berry was at the Tri-
County Livestock Sale when his
car radio informed him of the
shooting and robbery. His de
partment immediately went in
to action.
Sheriff Berry said that many
law enforcement officers aided
his department on the case and
by 4:30 both criminals were
behind the bars of Newton
County bastiles.
Sheriff Berry said that the
two men had apparently come
to Newton County on their way
to Florida. He said that the
exact amount of money taken
from Kesler was not determin
ed.
Kesler was admitted to New
ton County Hospital and later
was transferred to an Athens
hospital. His condition was
reported as “good” Wednesday
afternoon.
“It was remarkable that
Kesler was able to whip one of
the men while in his apparent
weakened conditions,” Sheriff
Berry commented.
Sheridan and Graham are
being held in the local jail and
will probably remain there un
til the next term of Newton
County Superior Court. Rob
bery by force is a Capital of
fense.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY 11. 1961
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Centennial Extravaganza At
High School Gym Saturday 8 P.M.
A Centennial Extraganza
is scheduled tor the Newton
County High School gymnasium
Saturday evening, May 13 at 8
o’clock. The program is part of
the Centennial Observance
scheduled by Newton County
High School in cooperation with
the Newton County Centennial
Commission.
Against a plantation setting
created by the Junior Class will
be a program of old fashion
drills and dances presented by
the gym classes of Mrs. Mary
Jay. A Southern musical pro
gram will be rendered by the
Newton County High School
Band.
At one end of the gymnasium
will be constructed a hugh
ante-bellum columned mansion
36 feet wide and 25 feet high.
This will be surrounded by an
orchard scene and a cotton
field.
The speech class of t h e
school will give a program on
the History of Confederate
flags. The Centennial evening
program will be concluded with
the cheerleaders leading in
cheers to the stirring strains
of “Dixie” and the Rebel Yells.
The public is invited to see
this Centennial Extravaganza,
and especially the organiza
tions of the Confederacy are
asked to be present.
Mansfield First
Graders Os 1961
Invited to School
On Wednesday, May 17, children
who plan to enter the first grade at
Mansfield Elementary School this
fall, are invited to attend school
from 8:15 to 11:15 a.m.
Parents are cordially invited to
come. At 11:00 o’clock children
and parents will be guests in the
school lunchroom.
COVINGTON NEWS
Pages
Today
Mrs. Denny Was
First Patient
In New Wing
Mrs. Annie Lee Denny was
the first patient admitted to the
New Wing of the Newton Coun
ty Hospital. Mrs. Denny is a
patient of Dr. Harry Faulkner
and her home is Rogers Heights,
Porterdale, Georgia. She is the
wife of Mr. Herbert Denny.
Mrs. Denny will be given
the first day room and board
free in recognition of being the
first patient to check into the
New addition after its opening
which was on Sunday May 7th.
Stroke Clinic
Friday 1 P. M.
The stroke clinic will be held
this Friday May 12th, 1961 at 1
O’Clock in the City Hall Court
Room. There will be present
a Photographer down
from the American Heart As
sociation, who will take pic
tures of the group and will pub
lish them in some of the Na
tional magazines.
“We also will have group
therapy for all the patients.
This is a special clinic for all
the patients (old and new) and
we would like to encourage all
patients to be with us for this
clinic May 12th.,” a spokesman
stated.
Miss Brenda Lee,
Recording Star,
Visits Covington
Miss Brenda Lee, recording
star and actress, was a Coving
ton visitor last weekend as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Ewing and Mr. and Mrs. Ho
ward Ewing and Douglas.
Brenda Lee, 16, has been
singing since she was five years
old. She has returned to her
home in Nashville. Tennessee,
where she lives with her mo
ther.
Miss Lee, a relative of Mrs.
Thomas Ewing, is expected to
visit in Covington again soon.
Road-E-0 Set
For Covington
Next Wednesday
Newton County Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will again
stage their Teen-Age Road-E-0
Wednesday, May 17 on the
Public Square in Covington.
Th«> contest will start at 3
o’clock.
Boys and girls in the age
group 16 - 19 are eligible for
the Road-E-O. Jaycee Bobby
Way is the chairman of t h e
committee staging the contest.
All girls and boys, unmarried,
who are interested in entering
the contest are asked to con
tact Mr. Way for an applica
tion blank.
Plaques and prizes will be I
given the top drivers here and
the winner will be eligible for
the State contest on May 27 at
LaGrange.
Georgia State Patrolmen will
serve as judges of the contest.
Three Dormitories Are Dedicated At Emory-Oxford
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PARTICIPANTS In the Dedication on Parents' Day of Emory at Oxford's three new dormitories are
pictured above at Harry Harlan Stone Hall, left to right: Bishop Costen J. Harrell, who dedicated the
buildings; Emory U. President Dr. S. Walter Martin, who presented them to the Methodist Denomi
nation; Dr. Virgil Y. C. Eady, EAO Dean, and the Rev. J. Hamby Barton, Chairman of Parents Day
arrangements.
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
Improvements, Classrooms
Needed In All Schools
Citizens of Newton County will have an opportunity
Wednesday, May 17, to help further up-date the school system
of the county in a school bond vote involving the issuance
of bonds in the amount of $200,000.
EAO Glee Club
Ensemble Has
Kiwanis Program
Emory-at-Oxford’ Glee Club
Ensemble will present a pro
gram at the Covington Kiwan
is meeting today (Thursday) at
1 o’clock at the American Le
gion Home.
The group, which consists of
17 singers and soloist Miss
Brenda Gurley of Hartwell,
Ga., is under the direction of
Prof. Harold Mann. The pro
gram today is in charge of Ki
wanian Dean V. Y. C. Eady.
Several popular and classi
cal numbers will be on the
program. Accompanist at the
piano will be Jimmy Young
blood.
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Guest speaker forth? Cov
ington Kiwanis meeting Thurs
day was State Senator Carl E.
Sanders of Augusta. He was
introduced by Charles C. King,
! Jr.
The Senator’s speech was in
keeping with “Law Day”
which is annually observed in
the State of Georgia.
Guests at the meeting Thurs
day included Tony Wilkie,
who is the new Covington of
fice manager of the State
Farm Mutual Insurance Com
pany; Representative Don Bal
lard; Mansfield Mayor A. E.
Hays. Sr.; 'and Troy Thigpen
lof Covington.
Newton Farm
Bureau Meets
Tuesday 7:30 P. M.
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The Newton County Farm ।
Bureau will hold its regular i
monthly meeting Tuesday, May <
16 at 7:30 p. m. at Henderson’s <
Restaurant.
A very interesting program 1
has been planned with Mr. Ed 1
Roddy as guest speaker.
Miss Claire Breedlove, State
Dairy Princess and her mother ‘
will also be guests. This is to ; s
be a dutch dinner meeting. i
NUMBER 19
If the bond issue is approved
Wednesday it will mean that
the school system will have an
additional $200,000 from the
state in matching funds. Some
20 classrooms are needed in the
various schools of the county
and much of the money will
go for that purpose.
Voting precincts jwill be open
over the county from 7 a. m.
until 7 p. m. Wednesday. All
18 communities in which the
balloting takes place will ob
serve the poll hours.
Supt. of Newton County
Schools J. W. (Whit) Richard
son said that one of the most
needed additions to any school
in the county is the construc
tion of a gymnasium at the R.
L. Cousins elementary and hign
school.
It was also announced that
the bonds, if okayed, will not
raise the taxes above the 4 -
mill that the county had a few
। years ago.
Son Os Dr., Mrs.
Paly Succumbs
To Hear! AM
It is learned with deep regret
that Dr. Phillip B. Paty, pro
minent heart specialist of Dun
edin, Fla., died there, Friday
afternoon following a heart at
tack.
Dr. Paty was the son of Dr.
and Mrs. R. M. Paty of thia
city. The Patys, who left imme
diately for Florida, upon being
advised of their son’s illness,
had not returned at press time;
and details relative to the fun
eral could not be obtained.
The young physician is sur
vived by his wife, the former
Miss Caroyln Mease, and four
children of Dunedin; his pa
rents, Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Paty;
one sister, Mrs. George Stamp
of California; and three bro
thers, his twin, Robert Paty,
Puerto Rica; Bill Paty; and Dr.
Donald Paty, Atlanta.
The News joins a wide circle
of friends in extending deepest
sympathy to the bereaved fam
ily.