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Thursday, May 18, 1961
Highway 20....
Continued From Page 9
Road is being built by Mac-
Dougald Construction Company
of Atlanta.
Another 10-mile section of
the same interstate route, from
Conyers to Covington, will be
let to contract by the State
Highway Department this sum
mer.
The same interstate highway
will serve as the new route to
Birmingham, and 11.5 miles of
this roadway are under con
struction in Fulton and Doug
las counties. Another portion,
in Cobb County, will be let to
contract this year.
An additional section of the
west - bound highway, in Car
roll and Haralson counties, is
in various stages of planning
and engineering.
The east-bound section will
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eventually serve as a new
route to Augusta. A portion of
this section of Interstate 20-
East, in Columbia and Rich
mond counties, will be let to
contract in 1962. The section
which will connect Conyers and
the Columbia - Richmond
stretch passing through Walton,
Morgan, Green, Taliaferro,
Warren and McDuffie counties
is in various planning ana en
gineering stages.
The Interstate construction
is part of 1,128 miles of Inter
state highways which will be
built in Georgia at a cost of
over one billion dollars. Geor
gia now has 278.5 miles of In
terstate roadway complete or
under contract. Ninety - three
miles are complete and in use.
In South Georgia, on Inter
state 75, Georgia has a contin
uous stretch of Interstate road
way under construction from
the Dooly - Houston County
line to the Florida state line, a
distance of 126 miles.
A recent report of the U. S.
Department of Commerce
showed Georgia is well ahead
of schedule on the Interstate
system, in comparison with
other states. Georgia is tied
with Oklahoma for Bth place
nationally in total miles under
construction and is 21st in the
nation to total miles completed.
Completed sections of Inter
state 75 include 50 miles in Tift,
Turner, Cook and Montoe
counties. Thirty - five miles of
the same roadway are under
construction in Gordon, Whit-
Pharr House ...
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square, and have 6 inch floor
boards. The main stairway,
with hand carved newal post
and rail, descends into the wide
reception hall, which runs the
length of the building’s center.
Two other private or back
stairways descend from rooms
of family members. Both the
front and back doors are flank
ed by paned glass panels and
door lights.
The kitchen, once separated
from the house, has since been
joined to the original struc
ture. The ancient, arched brick
fireplace of the kitchen, where
slaves once, no doubt, prepared
the family’s meals, is eight feet
wide. Its brick hearth, 3 feet
in breadth, is built up from the
ground, and extends the full
18 foot width of the kitchen.
Only the carriage house re
mains of the original, numer-
field and Catoosa counties.
Also on Interstate 75, 86
miles are under contract in
Dooly, Crisp, Cook, Lowndes
and Monroe counties. Inter
state 85, from Atlanta to Green
ville, S. C. is well under way,
with about 23 miles completed
from Atlanta to Suwanee
Governor Vandiver’s procla
mation pointed out that high
way improvements return their
costs three - fold in direct
benefits to users. Highway
Board Chairman Gillis
said that the $l5O million worth
of roads which will be let to
contract in 1961 in Georgia
will produce more than $450
million in direct savings to mo
torists in lower vehicle oper
ating costs, time savings, re
ductions of accident rates and
in other costs.
The proclamation emphasiz
ed that Georgia is also in the
midst of the Vandiver - spon
sored SIOO million highway
maintenance program which
will improve main traffic ar
teries used by 90 per cent of
the traveling public, and will
affect some 6,000 miles of pri
mary and secondary highways
in the state.
The first increment of bonds
under this program will in
clude 126 projects in 130 coun
ties, covering a total of 2,269
miles. The State Highway De
partment hopes to complete the
validation and sale of t h e
first S3O million issue of the
bonds in time to begin letting
contracts bv June.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
ous buildings, including slave
quarters, a Chapel for slaves,
where they also attended
school; cotton house, seed house,
tool house, milk house, barns
and stables. A drive leads to
the front of the boxwood av
enue, where a hitching post
stands; and two huge mill
stones 42 inches in diameter,
form a mounting block, from
which Southern belles in de
mure riding habits once mount
ed side saddles to ride with
chivalrous swains along bridle
paths of the rolling hills. Per
haps, even, to the Circle (as
Social Circle was then known),
which can be seen in the dis
tance from the front porch.
Ancient oaks, with multiple
clusters of mistletoe, crape
myrtles, clematis, Easter lilies,
hugh gnarled Southern magno
lia trees, bridal wreath, thou
sands of jonquils and double
daffodils, and other horticul
tural species of that era reflect
the love of beauty inherent in
the heart of the southern gen
tlewomen, who was mistress of
her domain.
We are indebted to the pre
sent owners of Pharr Planta
tion, Mrs. W. Lee Delaperriere
and Mrs. Lilia Mae Waithour
of Social Circle, for much of
its history. According to Mrs.
Delaperriere, an uncle, W. D.
Stanten was contractor for the
Pharr house’s construction. At
the time, he was engaged to
one of the Pharr daughters.
Clothes closets were not a part
of ante-bellum blueprints; but
the owner ordered “built-in”
wardrobes for his wife and
daughters. Legend has it that
in the room of his wife-to-be,
Mr. Stanton constructed her
wardrobe of solid mahogony.
Ironically, shortly before they
were to have been married, she
became ill and died. The be
reaved contractor never mar
ried; and spent the remainder
of his life with his brothers,
W. H., G. B. and I. A. Stanton
and their families.
Afterward, one of the Pharr
daughters married a Dr. But
ler; and upon the death of her
parents, the plantation became
known as' the Butler Place. At
their death, 1899 W. H. Stan
ton, father of the present own
ers, purchased the 1,000 acre
Pharr place, which his 3,000
acres surrounded. So, despite
the tragedy of their romance
ended by death, fate eventual
ly united the sweethearts’
families in ownership of the
plantations where their love
had blossomed in their youth.
Among the priceless antiques
which furnished the original
mansion, were a rosewood,
marble - top table, and a rose
wood, horsehair sofa,
which are now in the home of
Mrs. DeLapperriere and Mrs.
Waithour.
An additional reminiscent
note is contributed by one of
Covington’s senior colored citi
zens, Americus Gaither, who
admits to being “in her 70’s”.
Her mother, Americus Pharr,
was owned in slavery time by
the Pharrs — (slaves often took
the surname of owners) —and
was trained as a “house-girl”
and maid to the Pharr girls.
She remembers many stories
of the “big house”, told her by
her mother — when respect for
elders was paramount in t h e
training of youth who were not
“boys and girls”, but young
ladies and young gentlemen,
who knew how to say “Sir and
Ma’am” to their parents. “Many
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Mansfield P-TA Observes Family
Night At Final Meeting of Year
The Mansfield PTA observed
Family Night and Daddy’s
Night at the Community House
on Thursday night, May 11.
This was the last meeting of
the 1960-61 school term.
A bountiful covered dish
supper was served. Following
supper, Mrs. Harvey Kitchens,
President, welcomed those
present. The grade vote result
ed in a tie between the first
and eighth grades, for largest
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Confederacy of course. Sever
al of the young men of the
Junior and Senior classes also
wore Confederate uniforms of
one branch of the service or
the other. All of the young
ladies were dressed in their
long evening gowns which
were the vogue of the night
and the old Southern society.
Mrs. R. H. Patterson, a
teacher and the general super -
visor-decorater of all the
prom preparations, was dress
ed as a true Southern belle
hostess in her long flowing
gown as she greeted students
and visitors alike during the
evening.
Well, so much for the prom.
All students have reported
back to their duty stations to
prepare for final exams. In
two weeks school will be out!
The seniors begin exams next
Friday. All in all, summer is
almost upon us without even
any spring.
Do you like good music? I
am sure you do, and in that
case don’t you dare miss the
Newton County High School
Band Concert to be held Fri
day night at 8:00 p.m. in the
school auditorium. The band
members will receive their let
ters after the concert, and two
awards will be made — the
“Sousa Award” and the “Rook
ie of the Year.” The band
needs your support so be sure
and attend their concert.
Now this is just about enough
chatter. That linotype operator
keeps yelling for the Chatter
Box and if I intend to stay
around I better give it to him.
Os course it makes no differ
ence to him if we didn’t find
out until after deadline time
that the two office boys and
the boss left for Florida with
out writing “said manuscript”
this week. Just the same, its
time to start sweeping up be
fore I get swept out.
Newton
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Mason Stephenson. Bass:
Charles Wilbanks, Sam All
good, Larry Jenkins. Percus
sion: Lanier Forrester, Lou
genia Pulliam, Cheryl McMi
chael.
Members of the Cadet Band
are: Flute: Becky Blair. Clari
net: Allen Barnett, Hugh Mc-
Donald. Mary Beth Hill, Jimmy
Alexander, Judy Moseley, Myron
Huckaby, Brenda Hayes, Joy
Henderson, E. G. Lassiter,
Vance Morris, Rita Price, Cathy
Edwards. Terry Barnes. Alto
Saxophone: Phil Waters, Becky
Banks, Bill Everitt, Phil Stone.
Tenor Saxophone: Robert
Fuller, Charles Reynolds, Ed
mund Hackney. Trumpet: Bar
ry King, H. B. Adams, Jerry
Reagan, Nelson Hoffman, Mike
Kitchens, Larry Miller, Pat
Floyd, Gary Price, Mike Pratt,
Ray Allgood, Danny Parks,
Ronnie Jones, Lanier Edge, Bob
Lummus, Babs Stubbs. Bari
tone: Danny Hay. Trombone:
John Corley, Teddy Owens, Ed
gar Callaway, Susan Stubbs,
Tommy Parish, Randy Fincher.
Percussion: Gary Carney, Jean
Kesler. James Hunt, Claudia
Edwards.
The public is cordially invit
ed to attend this, the final con
cert of the school year 1960-61
and enjoy an evening of stirring
music of the Civil War Days.
Admission will be 25 and 50
cent.
is the time”, she said, “when
I have heard my old mother
tell stories of the Pharr family,
and of the old house’s enter
tainments, gaiety and beauty:
and some of its tragedies and
. sorrows”.
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attendance of parents, grand
parents, and friends. The
eighth grade won for having
the most daddies present.
The officers for the 1961-
1962 term were installed by
Mrs. Harold Robertson, in a
very impressive ceremony, with
SERVICE as the theme.
The following will serve as
officers and committee chair
men for next year: President,
Mrs. Harvey Kitchens, reelect
ed; Vice President, Mrs. Ralph
Adams; Secretary, Mrs. Jim
my Hays, reelected; Treasur
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Budget and Finance Chair
man, Mrs. J. H. Dennis; Mem
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Lewis Whisnante; Program,
Mrs. J. B. Spears, Jr.; By-
Laws, Mrs. Jimmy Hays; Ju-
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venile Protection and Recrea
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mittees at the beginning of the
fall term.
PERSONALS
Among Sunday visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moore of
Leguin Community were Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Wicks, Nina and
Kathy, Mr. and Mrs. Huie
Moore, Richard and Huanne,
Onree Moss of Atlanta and Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Cowan.