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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor Aad Publish*/
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND TH!
CITY OF COVINGTON
Newton Co. Suffers Loss
In Passing Os J. L. Elliott
And J. 0. Martin
Newton County sustained a distinct loss
on Friday, in the passing of Ex-Mayor Jack
L. Elliott, and former Newton County
School superintendent and Covington News
Columnist J. O. Martin of Atlanta.
Mr. Elliott, a native of the county, has
served with distinction in both the business
and civic life of his community. For 25
years he was co-owner, then owner of Por
terdale Merchantile Company, prior to his
retirement During the three terms he serv
ed as mayor, to which office he was elected
in 1952, the city enjoyed one of the most
progressive regimes in its history.
During his terms of office a SIOO,OOO
improvement in the Electric Light Plant
was effected; City employees were through
his efforts among the first such groups to
be included in Social Security; natural gas
was installed; a sewerage disposal plant
constructed; plans launched for a new mu
nicipal building; city limits extended; a
substantial saving effected through early
retirement of bonded indebtedness; and
many other sound business practices put
into effect.
“Mr. Jack,” as he was affectionately
known to scores of friends, was an avid
sportsman; a good business man; a loyal
church member; devoted to his family;
good friend and neighbor —a solid citizen.
Although Mr. Martin was not a native
of Newton County, his loyalty to and inter
est in it have been surpassed by few through
the years since he began his teaching ca
reer here at Old Bostwick School. Although
he made hrs home in Atlanta since, and
during the period he was State School
Supervisor, Newton County still claimed
him.
His popular column, “Newton Memories,”
in the Covington News for a quarter of a
century, with its rich human interest and
historic reminiscences emphasized the
depth of his love of Newton County and its
people.
He made many fine contributions in the
local field of Education; and distinguished
himself in service to the state as State
School Supervisor for 23 years. Perhaps
one of the most valuable contributions,
historically, Mr. Martin made to the county,
was his establishment through publicity in
state and national press, of the then New
ton County School Commissioner G. Claud
Adams as the founder of the School Com
Club for Boys, in the South, credited with
the organization of nation-wide 4-H and
FEA Clubs. A tablet at Rock Eagle in Put
nam County thus honors the late Prof.
Adams of Newton County, who later be
came State Commissioner of Agriculture,
for that achievement.
We of the Covington News keenly feel
a personal loss in Mr. Martin's passing.
“A man of brilliant intellect, coupled with
nobility of character,” is what his contem
poraries say of him. To this we, and the
people of the county he loved, wauld say,
“He was our Friend.”
Editorial Page is
Extremely Popular In
Most Newspapers
L. L. Valentine, President and General
Manager of THE FRANKLIN (Ky.) FAV
ORITE confesses that he has had some
distressing problems in recent weeks. When
it came time to go to press with his October
13 issue, he had too much news copy and
advertising for a ten page paper and not
enough for twelve. So he left enough news
galleys in the overset to get by with a ten
page paper. And the customers — especi
ally those who looked in vain for their
names in the paper — reacted with pained
displeasure.
The following week, he faced the same
dilemma.
“So,” he writes, in his issue of the 27th,
“we dropped the editorial page last week
in favor of straight news. The outcry was
even louder and longer.
“And the voice of angry readers, swell
ing to a mighty roar, thundered, What!
No editorial page? We even had a long
distance call protesting, ‘I have never
heard of such a thing!’
“Yes, friends, we dropped the editorial
page last week, not because of laziness,
or oversight or plain cussedness. We
thought it was the best way out of a
doublebarrelled dilemma.”
Mr. Valentine admits that he “would
have been terribly let down had there been
no comment” and thanks his readers for
their “outspoken protest.” He prefers, he
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"Use Tax" Hampers
Small Counties
Getting Industries
The Use Tax in Georgia has been cussed
and discussed and it is said that the tax
in Georgia has hurt the smaller counties
from securing many lucrative industries
that would employ hundreds of men and
women.
“Georgia Development News,” published
by the Industrial Development Branch of
Georgia Tech, has some interesting infor
mation on the tax. We herewith quote their
article:
WHAT ABOUT THE USE TAX?
In the midst of the stormy controversy
currently swirling through the state about
the use tax, certin misunderstandings in
evitably have arisen. We feel it would be
helpful, indeed, if the matter were reduced
to its simple essentials.
The use tax is a part of the 3% sales
tax legislation and is applicable to pur
chases of equipment and machinery which
are installed in many kinds of businesses.
Its effect is keenly felt in the case of new
manufacturing plans in which large a
mount of machinery and other production
equipment must be installed to complete
production lines. This tax, on top of the
initial investment required for most of
these installations, is the proverbial straw
that sometimes can break the camel’s back.
This is particularly true since none of
Georgia’s neighboring — and competing —
states applies a use tax that exceeds 1%
(and only one has a rate that high). In
effect, a penalty is being levied on open
ing a plant in this state. And the use tax
applies not only to new but also to used
machinery and equipment brought into
this state, if the tax has never been paid
on that machinery and equipment.
One result of the use tax is that it places
an undue burden on larger plant installa
tions which require exceedingly sizeable
outlays for machinery. These are the sort
of industries Georgia so badly needs —
the chemical industry, and particularly syn
thetic fiber plants, to cite but one example.
True, certain large plants have come into
the state despite the negative effects of
the use tax (such as pulp mills which have
to be fairly close to their raw material).
But many firms undoubtedly are omitting
Georgia from future plant location consid
eration because of the added penalty this
tax exacts.
It should be noted that the smaller cities
and rural locations are penalized more by
the use tax than are the larger cities. The
urban areas can offer other advantages
that will tend to offset some of the punitive
features of the use tax. Rural locations
trying to compete with similar areas in
other states have an almost insuperable
obstacle to overcame. It is at this point that
their tax disadvantage becomes most severe.
The fact that other Southeastern states
have managed to keep this tax at a mini
mum. or have actually reduced it, is also
significant.
says, to be “spanked (rather) than put in
the doghouse and ignored.”
In conclusion, he declares firmly:
“Betwixt the two impossibles there
is only one way out. From now on when
confronted with the nightmare we
will publish a 12-page paper. To do
this we may have to carry a page or
a part of a page blank. But we’d rather
be laughed-at than tongue-lashed.”
No More Time To Waste
Driven by the need for a whole new
arsenal of still undeveloped nuclear weap
ons, the Department of Defense and the
Atomic Energy Commission have finally
prevailed on the White House for what ap
pears to be grudging permission to engage
once more in essential atmosphere testing.
Such testing, by which the military is
anxious to improve warheads for antimissile
missiles, develop more powerful and light
er warheads for ballistic missiles, proof
test weapons already developed and study
atomic radio jamming, may now be under
taken, President Kennedy announced,
“when effective progress is not possible
without such tests.”
To have gained this authorization is a
tremendous accomplishment — in view of
the worldwide fallout terror the Russians
have stirred up. and even though it makes
our self-imposed three year moratorium
look tragically foolish.
A chance to recover this fumble —
if we still have it — is more than we
deserve.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Close.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY (HIESSON FOR
unday School
Growth Through Self-Discipline
(Temperance)
Bible Material: Matthew 7:13
-14; Luke 9:23-25; Ephesians
4:25-32; 2 Peter 1:2-11; 1 Cor
inthians 9:24-27.
Devotional Reading: Luke
13:22 - 30: Memory Selection:
Every athlete exercises self -
control in all things. They do it
to receive a perishable wreath,
but we an imperishable. 1 Cor
inthians 9:25.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Growth Through Self-Disci
pline (Temperance)
Every time we confront the
study of a lesson this quarter,
we need to remind ourselves
that the thirteen lessons be
tween October 1 and December
31 are gathered about the con
cept of growth.
We are put here in the world
to grow souls, to make our
selves ready for eternal fellow
ship with God through Jesus
Christ.
God wants that fellowship to
be established, and He has giv
en us every opportunity to do
our part in establishing it. We
cannot do all, but we can do
our part. Nothing effective and
complete can be done unless we
are diligent in doing our part.
Today’s lesson deals with
growth through self-discipline.
It is a temoerance lesson and
deals, therefore, with weakness
es of the flesh. This lesson deals,
decidedly with that form of
fleshly weakness known as lust
—which is sensuous desire,
body appetite, and passion
which has taken on a degrading
aspect.
The implication, of course, is
that the lesson deals with any
carnal, or fleshly, weakness,
such as the use of alcoholic
beverages.
The lesson emphasizes self
discipline, with emphasis on
“self.” There are periods in the
lives of all individuals in which
discipline sometimes has to be
enforced from without. In the
case of very young children, a
certain amount of such exter
nal discipline is necessary be
cause the child is entirely ignor
ant of what is best for his own
welfare. With the passing of
time, however, discipline needs
to turn from external to inter
nal compulsion.
The more parents are able to
teach their children to impose
discipline upon themselves, the
more will they be justified in
hoping that these children will
meet the crises of life in a sat
isfactory manner.
External discipline needs to
be enforced upon adults only in
the case of those who have be
come vicious, lawless, or who
are lacking in that emotional
and mental stability necessary
for good citizenship.
Discipline lies at the very
basis of growth, but only self
discipline confers upon us the
highest of moral and spiritual
benefits. We ask ourselves in
this lesson how we can learn
so to discipline ourselves that
through growth, sound security
in all aspects of life may be
come our portion.
“Grace and peace be multi
plied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Je
sus our Lord.”
The word “grace” has a num
ber of meanings. One meaning
is graciousness in our relation
ship toward others. This word
also stands for something of
primary importance in our faith,
namely, that free gift of God’s
approval, love, and spiritual
power whereby we are able to
live happily and to meet the
events of life with courage and
resourcefulness. Gracious n e s s,
the everyday capacity of being
considerate in our relations with
others, is something we can de
velop largely by our efforts.
But “grace,” about which the
Bible speaks so often, is a gift
troin God Himself.
We must always keep in the
forefront of our minds the rea
lization that the only hope we
have to triumph in this life
comes from the fact that God
has given us certain things out
of fullness of his divine love.
His greatest gift is the gift of
grace, that power by which hu
man life can bring triumph.
This quality of grace, and the
peace which accompanies it, is
multiplied to believers “through
the knowledge of God, and of
Jesus our Lord. . .’’This does
not mean the knowledge
gained through education and
reading, but the knowledge
which comes as we apprehend
with increasing clarity what
God is trying to do for us
through Jesus Christ.
God, by his divine power, has
given to men all things that
pertain unto life and godliness.
We live on a planet to which
we can adjust ourselves satis
factorily. In the Bible, in t h e.
life of saintly men and women,
in the spiritual experience of
the race, God has taught us the
advantage of certain things and
the disadvantage of other things.
We have become partakers
of the divine nature; something
of God is in us, and because of
this we are able to escape the
corruption that is in the world
of lust.
There is nothing which will
enable young people to escape
the lure of all evil temptations
quite so effectively as the pre
sence in their hearts of God’s
power and love. In other words,
religious faith and conviction
constitute the most potent
shield against temptation.
God’s Spirit enables us to by
pass temptation, to meet and
overwhelm it. And when we
have overwhelmed temptation,
we are filled with the realiza
tion that the peace and power
we have in our hearts are
worth a thousand times the
struggle and sacrifice in turn
ing away from evil.
Here are three remarkable
verses of Scripture. They set
the virtues of life in their
proper sequence.
Next to the rejection of evil,
nothing is so important for the
growth of moral life as to get
our virtues in their right order.
Note that everything begins
with faith. If we do not have
faith in God, faith in the sound
ness of his word, faith in h is
promises, and faith in ourselves
as children of God, we cannot
even get started in warfare
against evil. To this faith we
must add virtue.
In this lesson virtue really
means manliness. It is the
quality which causes us to put
goodness and duty before the
appeal of any evil
To this manliness we are to
add knowledge — not just the
.nowledge which comes through
the educational process but par
ticularly the knowledge that
God is in Christ reconciling the
world unto Himself.
To knowledge we are to add
self-control (temperance in the
King James’ translation). To
self-control we add patience, or
the willingness and ability to
endure whatever may be re
quired in the choosing of a
right course of action
To patience we add godliness
—a sense of the power and
patience of God in all of life.
To godliness we add brotherly
kindness, “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself” (Mark 12:-
31). To brotherly kindness, love.
The Greek word here for
love is “agape.” This is love in
its highest, spiritual sense —
the love we are to have for God,
the love God has for us, the
love we must maintain toward
our fellows. This, of course, in
volves charity, but it is some
thing vastly more than what is
called charity today.
Let us bear in mind that the
sequence of virtues is extreme
ly important. If we are to live
a life supported by God’s grace
and to live in confidence that
we can overcome life’s most
sinister temptations, we must
base everything on faith and
bring everything to the triumph
of love.
The Christian life begins in
faith and comes to achievement
in love. This order is impor
tant.
Farm-City Week
To Take Spotlight
On Educational TV
Farm-City Week will take
the spotlight on the Growing
South television program on
WGTV. Channel 8, at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 23, and
Friday, November 24.
Ed Hammond, secretary of
Georgia Power Company of
Atlanta, and Phil Campbell,
commissioner of agriculture,
will discuss the mutual rela
tionship of town and country
on Thursday's program with
Jack Minner, director of the
State Department of Commer
ce, and Dr. C. C. Murray, dean
of the College of Agriculture,
continuing on the same subject
Friday, the 24th.
Two of the programs of spe
cial interest to garden club
members that are being shown
during November and Decem
ber will be seen next week.
T. G. Williams, Extension land
scape specialist, will show how
to plan the “public area” of
the home landscape on Monday,
November, 20. and Garland
Smith. Extension ornamental
horticulturist, will demon
strate the care of foliage plants
on Wednesday, the 22nd. ।
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S. S. Benefits
Now Covers A
Broader Field
The 1961 amendments to the
social security law have re
duced the requirements needed
to qualify for monthly bene
fits, Joseph R. Murphy, Man
ager of the Atlanta Social Se
curity District Office, explain
ed today. •
As a result of these changes,
more people can become in
sured more quickly, he said.
Under the new law, Mr. Mur
phy pointed out, a person
needs only one calendar quar
ter of coverage for each year
following 1950, up to, but not
including, the year a male
worker becomes 65 or a woman
worker reaches 62.
As an example of this new
rule, a woman who becomes
62 in 1961 now needs 2 1/2
years of work (10 quarters of
coverage.) A minimum of 6
quarters of coverage is still
needed the get benefits. This is
the equivalent of 1 1/2 years
of work.
A quarter of coverage is
earned When a person is paid
at least SSO in a calendar
quarter in any employment
covered by social security, the
manager said, and a person who
is self-employed earns 4 quar
ters of coverage for each year
in which his business profit is
S4OO or more.
Many older people who did
not work long enough under
the old law may now be eligi
ble for benefits, he added.
These benefits are not auto
matic, however, and an appli
cation must still be filed. Any
one who was told in the past
that he could not get retire
ment benefits because he did
not work long enough should
immediately get in touch with
his nearest social security of
fice to see if he is eligible for
payments under the 1961
amendments.
Outlaw The
Christmas Tree?
Os course not! Here it is
just Thanksgiving and the chil
dren already are going to sleep
dreaming of the jeweled lights
and sparkling ornaments. And,
of course, the gayly-wrapped
gifts under the tree.
After all, who would want
to outlaw the Christmas tree?
Maybe there are such peo
ple. Maybe they are the peo
ple who lost their homes from
fires started in Christmas trees.
It happens every year. Not on
ly homes are lost, but much
worse, lives.
Most of us think it wouldn’t
be Christmas without a tree.
Let’s be sure, though, that it’s
a safe tree. Start planning on
it now. It’ll be too late when
you unpack the ornaments the
last minute.
Check the lights this week
end. Are the cords frayed or
loose, are any of the sockets
cracked? Do you have an old
stand, or one of the newer ones
where the tree can stand in
water? Is this the year for you
to buy an artificial tree? Buy
new and safer equipment if
you need it.
Wait until nearly Christmas
before buying your tree, espe
cially if you live in the South
where outside temperatures are
above freezing. Shake the tree
before you buy it; if needles
fall off, better check twice on
how fresh it is. Store the tree
outside: don’t set it up until
just before Christmas Eve.
When you set up the tree,
make sure it won't fall over,
possibly causing a short cir
cuit Check the bulbs when
you’re finished, and move any
that touch the needles. Don’t
put electric trains around the
tree.
Turn the lights off when you
leave the room. Check the wat
er level regularly. Take the
tree down before New Year’s;
earlier if many needles fall.
Yes, let’s have a Christmas
tree. But let’s make it safe!
FARM PRICES
The Index of Prices Re
ceived by Georgia farmers
dropped nearly one percent (2
points) during the month end
ing October 15. However, there
was an increase of over one
percent (3 points) over the
mid-October index of a year
ago, according to the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service. The
decline of two points from the
preceding month was equally
divided between all crops and
livestock and livestock products
index, each losing one point.
If American farmers were no
more efficient than those of
the Soviet Union. 22,500,000
Americans not now doing so
would have to produce food,
clothing and forest products.
Even Dead Heroes
Are Not Immune
ly LEO S. MALLARD
It would be nice and most people would be happy if they
could wipe past actions that they now regret from their lives
and the living memories of those people with whom they
have come in contact. Unfortunately we know that this can
not be done. The memory of a person and what he stands for
lives on through the ages.
The effort being made in i
Russia today to wipe out the
memory of Joseph Stalin is :
dramatic and comical. But,
such is the Communist system.
To accept the truth and try to
profit from mistakes of the
past is not the Russian way.
The last days of the 22nd Com
munist Party Congress were
occupied by a long list of
speakers who cursed the mem
ory of Stalin as if chanting a
ritual.
The names of three cities,
formerly named for the Rus
sian ex-chief-of-state. have
been changed. All text books
for Russian schools are being
rewritten so as to eliminate all
evidence of Stalin and the era
diring which he ruled. The
mummified corpse of Stalin has
been removed from the red
and-black marble Mausoleum
in Red Square where it has
rested beside Lenin.
While Moscow slept, the
body of Stalin was removed
from the Russian shrine. In a
ceremony equivalent to that of
a third-class funeral the body
was reburied behind the Mau
soleum in a cemetery reserve I
for dimly famous Red heroes.
With this action, Khrushchev
hoped to lay Stalin’s ghost
once and for all so that it
would no longer haunt the So
viet land with a clanking of
chains reminiscent of Lubian
ka prison, or eerie moans re-
Governor Says More Teachers Are
Receiving Higher Ref. Benefits
More Georgia school teachers
are receiving higher retirement
benefits than ever before under
his administration, Governor
Ernest Vandiver announced
Saturday.
A report from the Teacher
Retirement System, of which G.
E. Pittman is executive secre
tary - treasurer, shows that
more than 40,000 teachers are
now active members of t h e
system.
The 40,000 figure excludes
, some 6.000 teachers who are
members of local retirement
systems in Atlanta, Fulton
. County, Chatham County and
the City of Rome.
The number of active mem
-1 hers has increased from a pre
cious level of 37.000.
Governor Vandiver also
pointed out that under his ad
ministration there are more
retired teachers receiving bene
fits — 3.136 — than ever be
fore, and this number during
his term of office has increas
ed by 637 teachers.
Average monthly benefits
for teachers are also the high
est ever, the report indicates.
These benefits have jumned
from SB4 per month to slls
per month, the Governor said.
And, the monthly retirement
payroll has increased from
$234,266 on January 1, 1959, to
$362,116 at the present time.
Governor Vandiver pointed out.
The Vandiver administration
is providing almost $1.5 mil
lion more in state matching
funds for teacher retirement.
In the fiscal year ended June
30, 1959, the amount of state
matching funds was $8,349,-
976.51. On June 30. 1961, t h e
amount had been increased to
$9,830,32 5.38.
Two bills which Governor
Vandiver signed into law dur
ing his term have brought
about significant increases in
benefits to Georgia’s teachers.
Under Senate Bill 184 which
the Governor signed on March
16. 1960, several hundred mem
bers of the system obtained
credit for teaching service they
accumulated prior to July 1,
1943.
These teachers re-established
credit for this service by re
paying into the system with
drawn contributions and ac
crued interest.
In addition, quite a f e w J
teachers who elected not to ’
join as contributing members J
of the retirement system in
1943 made retroactive con tri- t
butinns under the Senate bill t
and obtained credit for all 1
their Georgia teaching service, c
A new formula for teachers v
Thursday, November 16, 1961
calling the falsely accused
thousands who died in Arctic
mines and labor camps.
Even the Georgians, who
had been so proud of their
native son that when Stalin
was first criticized in 1956
they had erupted in protest
riots, now joined in his con
demnation. The reburial
brought the first solid evidence
of Stalin’s disgrace.
In the act of reburial, how
ever, Moscow was deprived of
another of its slim number of
tourist attractions available in
Red Square. Khrushchev took
immediate steps to make up the
loss. He inaugurated a huge
statue of Karl Marx, and
promised yet another monu
ment —to Stalin’s victims.
Russian children may now
grow up with very little
knowledge of the Stalin era,
but the cloak and dagger at
mosphere of his fall from grace
and reburial after death will
for years to come open the
door to questions about the
greatness of the Communist
system as a whole. How could
it allow a man like Stalin to
seize complete control, and
how can it prevent the rise of
another Stalin?
Although Khrushchev has re
buried the dead, the Russian
neonle mav wonder whether
Stalin’s rule was not really
the inevitable result of Com
munism.
retiring after July 1, 1961, was
set up under House Bill 560,
which Governor Vandiver sign
ed on April 5, 1961.
In most cases, this bill in
creased average benefits from
50 to 100 per cent over what
they would have been under the
old law.
Maximum benefits under the
new formula will be 70 per
cent of the teacher’s average
salary for the five highest years
and the benefits apply to teach
ers with 40 or more years’ ser
vice who are age 65 or older.
The 1961 House bill also pro
vided means for the Board of
Trustees of the Teachers’ Re
tirement System to increase
benefits being paid to teach
ers who retired prior to July
1, 1961.
Some teachers have already
qualified for the increased
benefits available under two
different plans set up for this
purpose by the Board of Trus
tees.
4-H Leaders
To Receive
Certificates
Fifteen Adult 4-H Club
Leaders will receive certificate*
on Monday Night, November
13th after having completed a
six weeks training course. This
course was conducted by Stat*
4-H Club Leaders for the Ag
ricultural Extension Service
Office in Athens in cooperation
with our local Extension
Agents, Carol McGiboney and
Ed Hunt.
All of those attending thi*
course found it very education
al and helpful for work with
young people of our county.
This course was designed to
give adult leaders a better un
derstanding of youth work.
Those to receive the certi
ficates are: Jewell Hitchcock,
' Ed Butler. J. W. Aaron, Edgar
Fisher, Mrs. Bill Porter, John
Fuller, Mrs. Arthur Hargrove,
Roy A. Barnett. Mrs. Alton
Jolley. Mrs. Bill Standard,
Barbara Aiken, Arthur Har
grove. Mrs. Lewis Whisnante,
Alton Jolley, Mrs. Fred Greer.
Our featured speaker for
the graduation exercises of
this group will be S. G. Chand
ler, Extension Training Spe
cialist from the Extension Ser
vice in Athens.