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Clear skies and gray-sun
shine and rain- have continued
to fill the days of not only the
calendar, but of the very
Journey of Life. For it is of
such contrasts of joys and sor
rows that the tapestry of Life
is woven.
Seldom does a community ex
perience the simultaneous loss
from natural causes, of two
more valuable citizens than
Newton County has suffered in
the passing of Channing Cope
and L. J. (Dinty) Moore. Both
were lovers of the soil: and
such men are imbued with a
zeal for making this world a
better place in which to live.
This they did —and the reward
of their endeavors shall live
on to enrich the heritage of
Newton County—their adopted
home.
Many from various sections
of our great nation have chosen
Georgia as the ideal site for
their homes; and despite the
beauty and advantages of va
rious other states, visiting them
but accentuates the logic of
choosing Georgia, and parti
cularly, Newton County.
This thought kept recurring
to us in our recent western
trip, where we were left last
week at press time, at the
Southern Entrance to Yellow
stone, the nation’s oldest Na
tional Park (established 1872
by an Act of Congress). We
had just come through Grand
Teton Nat’l Park, where
Grand Teton Mt. raises its
snow covered cap 13,766 ft.
above sealevel. We rode beside
beautiful Snake and Lewis
rivers, Lewis Lake and Yellow-
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Newton Hospital
Auxiliary Hears
'Holiday' Report
The Newton County Hospi
tai Auxiliary held its regular
meeting Thursday morning,
July 13, at the hospital din
ing room. Mrs. R. R. Fowler,
president, presided. She ex
pressed appreciation to all
committees and organizations
for their cooperation in the suc
cess of the “Holiday for t h e
Hospital”.
A financial report by Mrs.
Sam Gainer, treasurer, reveal
ed that the proceeds would be
approximately SBOO. All pro
ceeds are not yet tabulated.
A motion was passed that it
be left to the discretion of the
Doctor’s Association as to what
equipment to buy with the
money obtained from the pro
ject.
Mrs. Helen Dickinson, Hos
pital Administrator, stated that
the services of the Auxiliary
members performed at the hos
pital are a great contribution to
the successful management of
the hospital. A large portion of
the membership is serving as
receptionist and as assistants in
the supply room.
Ty Cason Is Candidate For
Legion Sr. Vice Commander
Ty Cason of Covington,
prominent in American Legion
activities on a local and state
level for many years, is an an
nounced candidacy for the of
fice of Department Senior
Vice Commander of Georgia.
Ty is presently serving as
Department Junior Vice Com
mander. He is a past Fourth
District Commander and has
served two years as Command
er of Newton County Post 32.
He was named to member
ship on the American Legion
National Anti - Subversive
Committee in 1959-60, and has
also served on the National
Membership Committee of the
American Legion.
Mr. Cason is a member of
the Porterdale Presbyterian
Church and is also a member
of the Covington Elks Lodge
Number 1806. He is a Civil
Service employee at the At
lanta General Depot in Con
ley, Ga.
Three other candidates aspire
for the number two office n
Georgia Department of the
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Dec Jr Claims L. J. Moore And Channing Cope
Both Funeral Services Held
Monday At Episcopal Church
Final tribute to Leslie Joseph
Moore, prominent 63-year-old
Georgia farin equipment deal
er and Livestockman, who died
Saturday afternoon at Newton
County Hospital after an ex
tended illness, was paid in ten
o’clock Monday morning ser
vices at the Episcopal Church
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of the Good Shepherd. The Rev.
Gordon H. Mann, rector, con
ducted the last rites.
Mr. Moore, one of Newton
County’s leading citizens for the
past seventeen years, was a
native of Oxford, Ind., and the
son of the late Edward and
Martha Greenwood Moore. He
was an alumnus of Purdue Uni
versity, where he received his
degree in civil engineering; and
was a member of Acacia Fra
ternity.
His early career included a
Culvert Manufacturing Com
pany which he operated in
Memphis, Tenn. It was there he
married the former Miss Var
ginia Graves of that city. Upon
moving to Atlanta in 1935 he
entered the farm equipment
business, and established the
Tri - State Equipment Com
pany there, which now has
branches in Augusta, Macon,
Savannah and Birmingham,
Ala.
In 1944 the Moores moved to
Newton County, where he pro
duced one of this section’s lead-
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American Legion. They are
Perry Purcell of Marietta, W.
D. Harrell of Bainbridge and
Calvin Sticher of Athens. The
election will take place Sun
day at the State Legion Con
vention at Columbus.
The Covington news
Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon for Chan
ning Cope, 68, well-known
Newton County writer and ra
dio announcer. Reverend Gor
don Mann, Rector of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Episco
pal, Covington, officiated at
the service at the church.
Mr. Cope, whose soil con
servation efforts earned him
such titles as Georgia’s “Front
Porch Farmer,” “The Kudzu
King,” and “The Friendly
Farmer.” is dead.
The 68-year-old former
newspaper columnist and radio
announcer died Saturday of a
heart attack at his Yellow River
Farm, near Covington, the
family said. He had not been in
ill health. His death came un
expectedly.
Mr. Cope had been in semi
retirement since 1950, when he
gave up his daily writing of
columns for The Atlanta Con
stitution.
Onetime nationally featured
in such magazines as Time,
Newsweek, National Geogra
phic, and others. Mr. Cope’s
conservation preachings gained
widespread attention.
The “Front Porch Farmer”
was well known for his down
to-earth approach to farm prob
lems, and was cited by several
state and national groups for
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his long efforts toward promot
ing grass planting in Georgia
to stem the tide of erosion that
turned Georgia streams red in
the 19305.
He went up and down the
state preaching the benefits of
planting of Kudzu and Ken
tucky Fecuse grasses to farmers,
when the grasses were in pio
neering stages in Georgia.
“He had seen the top soil of
gic memories of childhood days
so closely interwoven with
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Alcovy Methodist
Homecoming Sun.
Revival services of Alcovy
Methodist Church will be
launched Sunday July 23, with
an annual Homecoming. A for
mer pastor, the Rev. Mr. New
ton Scott, now pastor of Chi
copee Methodist Church, will
be the Homecoming speaker at
the morning worship service.
Alcovy’s pastor, the Rev.
James (Jimmy) Thurmond,
will bring the evening service’s
message, as well as the ensu
ing sermons of the revival, each
evening at 8:00 o’clock, next
week.
A basket lunch will be serv
ed at noon; and a singing ser
vice in the afternoon will be
led by Edsel Arnold, which
will feature several well known
singing groups of this area.
Members and friends are cor
dially invited to join in t h e
day of fellowship.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961
Newton County Band Students Awarded Scholarships
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MEMBERS OF NEWTON COUNTY HIGH School Band who received scholarships to Middle Tenn
essee State College, Murfreesboro, Tennessee are shown above looking over their papers designating
them as participants in the 100 piece Southeastern Band. They are left io right Charles Wilbanks,
Tommy Brown, Mada Patterson, Mike Budd, Billy Skinner and John Jordan. Not present was Jerry
Huff. The instrument held by Billy Skinner is the new Mellophonium, which will be used this year
in lieu of the French Horn in marching maneuvers. This will be the first time this instrument has
been used by a high school band.
Jack Nelson Is
Speaker Kiwanis
Club Today
Pulitzer Prize - Winner Jack
Nelson, Atlanta Constitution
reporter, will be the guest
speaker at the Kiwanis Club
meeting Thursday at noon.
Mr. Nelson will discuss the
work that is being done at the
Milledgeville State Hospital
and what mental health lead
ers think about Georgia’s pre
sent program to combat men
tal illness.
Noted as a good investive re
porter, Mr. Nelson started the
ball rolling toward reform in
Georgia’s mental health pro
gram and the Milledgeville
State Hospital with his expose
of existing conditions in 1959.
His efforts to bring about re
forms in the mental health field
were rewarding when he re
ceived the coveted Pulitzer
Prize. Mr. Nelson is also the
recipient of the Georgia Asso
ciated Press Sweepstakes, the
Georgia AP Public Service
Award, and The Bell Award
presented by the National As
sociation for Mental Health.
Mr. Nelson was recently no
tified that he has been granted
a Neiman Fellowship to Har
vard University to further his
studies. This award was partly
made possible by his work in
the mental health field.
The whole state — including
the doctors who once fought the
mental health investigation —
now applaud The Constitution
and Mr. Nelson for exposing
the “Georgia cancer” for re
moval.
Veterans Office
Closed July 20-24
The Veterans Service Office'
will be closed from Thursday
noon, 12:30 PM. July 20th, un
til Monday, July 24th. Mrs.
Cason will attend the American
Legion and Auxiliary State
Convention in Columbus. Em
ergencies, please call the At
lanta office, Jackson 5-5501.
COVINGTON NEWS
Pages
Today
Rev. Strickland
Guest Preacher
Here Sunday
The Rev. William D. Strick
land will preach at the Cov
ington First Methodist Church
next Sunday evening, July
23rd, in the absence of the Pas
tor, Rev. G. A. Lively, who will
be preaching in a revival at
Rockland Methodist Church.
The Rev. Mr. Strickland is
the Associate Pastor of t h e
Newton Circuit. He is a gradu
ate of Western State College,
Bowling Green, Ky. He is in his
second year at Emory. He now
resides in Atlanta, Ga.
Everyone is urged to come
and hear this excellent young
minister.
Edgar Maloy
Brings in First
Cotton Bloom
Edgar Maloy of Route 2,
Covington, brought the first
cotton bloom of the year to the
NEWS office on Wednesday af
ternoon, July 12.
Mr. Maloy owns his faim
which is located in the western
part of the county, near Salem
Community.
Old S R 36
Paving Contract
Letting July 11
State Highway Board Chair
man Jim L. Gillis has an
nounced that road construction
contracts on which bids will
be opened by the Highway De
partment on July 27 and 28
will total an estimated $34,-
857,000. Chairman Gillis said
that this total will make July
by far the greatest single month
in the Highway Department’s
history in terms of work
placed under contract.
The July 27 letting marks
the initiation of work under
the 100-million dollar Vandi
ver Administration Highway
Authority bond program. Bids
will be opened on an estimated
$12,300,000 in contracts pro
viding for the widening and re
surfacing of 1188 miles of
Primary and Secondary high- 1
ways located in 86 Georgia <
counties.
The July 28 letter of 29 ■
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Newton Little
League All-Stars
Enter Tourney
Newton County Little League
All-Star baseball team is en
tered in the District Playoffs
at Winder. The local squad was
to have met Monroe yesterday
(Wednesday) at 6 p. m.
Manager of the team is J. W.
Stowe of the first half cham
pionship Oxford Dodgers. He
has a squad of 15 players to
call upon in the tournament.
If the Newton team wins
their first start the next op
ponent will be the winner of
the Gainesville - Social Circle
game. Game time will be an
nounced this morning (Thurs
day).
More sports news is carried
on The Covington NEWS sport
page today. Please turn to Page
11.
Georgia House Committee Visits Rock Eagle 4-H Center
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ONE OF THE CAMPERS at Rock Eagle 4-H Clvb Center tells about the work he is doing in a rural
electrification class to some distinguished visitors during a visit to the camp by the House Committee
on the University System of Georgia. The 4-H'er, Joe Grimm of Toombs County, is taikina with left
to right: Associate Director L. W. Eberhardt, Jr., of the Cooperative Extension Service. Represent,
atives Don Ballard, Newton County. Roy Kelly, Jasper County and Bob Smith, Brantley Coumv"
At right is Dean C. C. Murray of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture.
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Rotary Club, Chamber Os
Commerce Start Project
A joint project by two county civic organizations is pres
ently underway to mark all Newton County roads, according
to an announcement by Otis Spillers, President of the Cov
ington Rotary Club.
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Mr. Spillers said that the
Rotary Club and the Newton
County Chamber of Commerce
have started the ball rolling
to ask community clubs of the
county to aid the project by
naming roads which presently
do not have a name.
The cost of the signs and in
stallation will be paid by the
Rotary Club and the Chamber
of Commerce, according to Mr.
Spillers. He said that Mrs.
Hazel Malone, Newton Home
Demonstration Agent, has
agreed to aid the road - naming
project.
“Due to our county’s tremen
dous growth in the past few
years we feel that this project
will be another step forward
for individuals and industry in
making plans for the future
welfare of Newton County."
Mr. Spillers stated.
A meeting of community
leaders from all sections of the
county will be held in the near
Phillip Freeman Is Awarded
1961 Lowensfein Scholarship
Phillip Freeman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Allen of Cov
ington, is the recipient of the
1961 Lowenstein Foundation
Scholarship, according to an
announcement by officials of
Covington Mills.
Mr. Freeman, a 1961 grad
uate of Newton County High
School, has made application
for entrance at Georgia Tech
this fall.
During his high school ca
reer Phillip was a member of
the Beta Slub, Key Club, Latin
Club, Pep Club and the Hi-Y
Club. He was also a member of
the varsity basketball and base
ball team at NCHS. In basket
ball he received two fans ap
preciation medals for his per
formance as a Ram.
In 1957-58 he won an award
in Soil and Water Conservation
contest at the school.
Freeman’s scholarship is
based on his college perfor-
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future to complete the road
naming venture and then the
signs will be installed.
Dan Clower is president of
the Chamber of Commerce and
his organization first made the
suggestion that the roads be
marked more than a year ago.
However, the Rotary Club has
entered into the project and
after a meeting last week, made
the announcement that the
signs would be purchased joint
ly by them and the C. of C.
Covington Elks
Dance Saturday
The Covington Elk Lodge No.
1806 will have a dance Sat
urday evening, July 22 at the
Elks Club.
Dancing will be from 9 to
12 p. m. and the music will be
furnished by Bill Oldham Or
chestra.
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mance on a yearly basis of
$600.00 per year. The scholar
ship for the four years can
mean some $2,400 to the re
cipient.