Newspaper Page Text
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
VOLUME 97
Senator Talmadge Will Be
Special Guest on Vet Program
Senator Herman Talmadge
will be a special guest speaker
on the last of the series of ra
dio programs on veterans af
fairs sponsored by the Georgia
Department of Veterans Service
and broadcast by over 85 sta
tions throughout the state next
week (December 10-16).
The Senator will be inter
viewed by Pete Wheeler, Di
rector of the Georgia Depart
ment of Veterans Service. Mat
ters of interest to all veterans
and their families will be dis
aussed on the program.
“As a member of the Senate,
Senator Talmadge has a first
hand knowledge of veterans’
problems and proposed legisla
tion now pending before our na
tion’s legislative body,” Mr.
Wheeler said.
The program, entitled
“What’s Your Problem,” has
run for 26 weeks on the 85 -
station veterans’ network. Sev
eral Georgia Congressmen have
also appeared as a part of the
series to give their “Reports
from Congress”, on Veterans’
legislation.
14 Honored by
Agriculture Dept.
At Ceremony
Fourteen state employees of
the Georgia Department of Ag
riculture received Service
Awards from Commissioner
Phil Campbell at a special cere
mony taking place Tuesday,
November 28. at the State Ag
riculture Building in Atlanta
Among those receiving
awards for lengthy service to
the state were the following:
West Davis, Laboratories Di
vision, 30 years, and Clinton
Faulkner, Laboratories Division,
25 years.
Presented with 20 year Ser
vice Awards at the event were
A. Q. Atkinson, Comptroller; J.
D Bargeron, Special Investi
gator; A. T. Bray, Commis
sioner’s Office; F. S. Carr, In
spection Division; Candler Cle
ment, Jr., Information and
Education Division; Buell
Samples. Special Investigator;
Glenn Segars, Assistant to the
Commissioner of Agriculture
and Mable Terry, Laboratories
Division.
Those receiving awards for
15 years of service to the state
included Mrs. H. R. Atkinson,
Comptroller's Office; Robert
A. Moncrief, Insecticide Sec
tion: Sam V. Steele, Atlanta
Farmers’ Market, and T. E.
Wilson, Atlanta Farmers’ Mar
ket.
The use of paper bags for
packaging certified seed is on
the increase, reports Extension
Seed Marketing Specialist
Harvey Lowrey.
Boy Scout Work Was Conversation Topic
ftSt , I
F ' *
pr; eSb|^
f f liillM
IH * i*-^ ■SG ’ ,> •
«sSfe-’ *
f
MtitA. *«««»* »
I* r - , ' a
:i. ;•<'s>.-.s/.£•>:*• • •<*■ - : X’Wmt •-. • w- M»>Mlh»MKr..-7.^.v./^-'-<>^M^)l^
Simon A. Smith. Deputy Scout Executive of the Atlanta Area
Council and B. B. Snow, vice-president of Bibb Manufacturing Co.
■nd Newton-Rockdale District Finance Chairman, discuss Scouting
«t the District Annual Banquet held Thursday night at E. L. Ficquett
School Cafetorium.
The Covington Enterprise, Established in J 864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
Seoul Fund
Campaign Still
Short of Goal
The 1962 Operational Fund
Campaign for the Boy Scouts
of Newton County is falling
far short of the county’s $5,000
quota of the SB,OOO budget re
quested for the Newton-Rock
dale District, according to Dr.
W. S. Cook Jr., campaign
chairman.
On Tuesday, December 5, the
campaign fund amounted to
$3,708.42 which had been col
lected in Newton County. These
contributions came from the
following communities: Cov
ington, Howard Brooks—chair
man—s2,2Bs; Porterdale. B. B.
Snow — chairman — $732.07;
Covington Mills, George Jolley
—chairman — no report yet;
Oxford, W. J. Dickey—chair
man — $290; Almon, C. H.
Berry Jr. — chairman — $66:
Mansfield, James Bento n—
chairman — $181; Stewart, E.
M. McCart — chairman —$103.
M. McCart—chairman — $103.-
50; Salem. Doyle, Bailey—
chairman—sso.
“AH of us are very proud of
the work these men have done
in their communities, but we
need the help of everyone to
support the boys in Boy Scouts
of Newton County,” Dr. Cook
said.
“Every worker that has not
turned in his report is urged
to do so immediately. Coving
ton and Newton County has
never failed to reach its goal
for the Boy Scouts before, and
we feel sure that the people
of this county will come
through and help place this
campaign over the top,” Dr.
Cook said.
Dr. Cook said that he knew
that every person in the coun
ty had not been contacted and
he requested that all donations
be mailed to: Mr. Terry Avery,
Campaign Fund Auditor, Boy
Scouts of America, c/o The
Bank of Covington, Covington,
Georgia.
E. G. Lassiter Jr., district
chairman of the Newton-Rock
dale District, has also urged
the people of Newton County
to help the Boy Scouts to reach
their goal for the 1962 Operat
ing Budget.
Ask any mother what she
desires for her son and she
might say, “make my son
strong, alert, and alive to what
is right; make him considerate
of others: give him the ruler of
life’s game so that he serves
well his God and his country.”
Yet, to make the appeal
Qlnutngtnn News
Water Filter Plant At Porterdale Is Sizeable Undertaking
a® I
■ * ..
ri, jV -a’ f ' “►’l'
If
■^2ss^ ^iK'Ww it _
• T
k .
.i. a/t
OUTSIDE OF A FEW RESIDENTS of Porterdale very few people
know that the Bibb is in the water business. Yes, operation of a
filter plant at Porterdale is a sizeable undertaking. The plant was
built originally in 1918 and was rebuilt in 1935. Last year the
outside filter beds and settling basins shown in the picture were
completely renovated. The plant has a capacity of 1 1/2 million
valid, it should be preceded by
the world “HELP.” That sim
ple word establishes the rela
tionship of Boy Scouting to
boy development for her son.
That responsibility is a preci
ous gift that belongs to the
parents.
Your “help” through Scout
ing is helping to mold and de
velop boys that will take their
rightful place in society,
equipped to apply the Scout
Oath to their daily lives.
Christmas Tour
Os Homes at
Monticello, Wed.
The Monticello Garden Club,
Monticello, is sponsoring a
Christmas tour of homes on
Wednesday, December 13,
from 3-6 p.m.
The first most interesting
and beautiful homes will be
open for public inspection, each
featuring the pleasant and
comfortable living in a dif
ferent period.
Tickets and maps of the tour
are available at the office of
Jasper County Farm Bureau
on the City Square of Monti
cello, for sl., according to an
announcement by Mrs. Edgar-
Lancaster, president of the
garden club.
It takes at least 20 minutes
for a driver’s eyes to adapte
to darkness, but their adapta
tion can be shattered in a se
cond by sudden bright lights,
the Harvard School of Public
Health reports. Experiments
also showed that the degree of
difficulty in adjusting vision to
darkness increases with age.
Nobody ever gets anything
for nothing, but a lot of peo
ple keep trying.
Rev. Crawley Main Speaker at BSA Fete
«.< ■- i
a3 Bfe > mH ‘ii/ZiS ‘
ES Mk m* ;
- \ JHmBU
Z ; -^
Attentive Scouters of the Newton-Rockdale District listen as
the Rev. Frank Crawley, pastor of the First Methodist Church of
Decatur, challenges them to greater heights in Scouting for "our
boys" as he de’ivers the main address at the Newton-Rockdale
District Annual Banquet.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1961
Covington
Temperatures
Jack Chapman announces
the following temperatures for
Covington during the past
week.
High Low
Wed. Nov. 29. 55 29
Thurs. Nov. 30, 59 25
Fri. Dec. 1, 61 30
Sat. Dec. 2, 68 35
Sun. Dec. 3. 74 45
Mon. Dec. 4, 72 44
Tues. Dec. 5, 61 50
Clifford Rogers
Gets Insurance
Promotion Here
Clifford V. Rogers has been
promoted to associate manager
in charge of The Life Insurance
Company of Virginia’s Coving
ton office.
Announcement of his ap
pointment was made today by
E. K. Lindorme. manager of the
company’s North Georgia dis
trict with offices in Covington,
Toccoa, Athens, and Gainesville.
Rogers, a native of Haber
sham county, joined Life of
Virginia in 1960 as a represen
tative in Toccoa.
Smart drivers will dim their
lights even if an oncoming
driver does not dim his, says
the Allstate Safety Crusade. In
this way the smart driver cuts
glare in half and can minimize
its blinding effects by focus
ing on the right shoulder or
edgeline of the highway.
A new publication, “South
ern Pea Culture,” now availa
ble at Georgia county agents’
offices, covers all phases of
growing peas in the state.
gallons of water per day. The entire community of Porterdale is
dependent on this plant for drinking water and fire protection. In
addition many thousand gallons are consumed in the operation of
Osprey, Porterdale, and Welaunee Mills. A reservoir of 275,000
gallons is maintained for emergencies. Olin Carter is shown in the
picture checking things over last winter.
Charles Bone to
Take AF Technical
Training Course
. Kv ■
/
I k ' \
CHARLES BONE
Airman Basic Charles Win
ston Bone, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Bone of Route 2,
Covington, has completed his
basic training at Lackland
AFB, Texas, and is being as
signed to the United States Air
Force technical training course
for aircraft maintenance spec
ialists at Amarillo AFB, Texas.
Airman Bone was selected
for the advanced training on
the basis of his interests and
aptitudes and will be trained
for a jet AP mechanic.
A graduate of Newton Coun
ty High School he worked for
two winters at the Covington
News as a DCT student and
was with the News at the time
of his enlistment in the Air
Force.
<‘yy aRmBI <
*
Bk
Arms
NEW HOME — Caps. Arlene
Lundstrom (left) and Lt. Doris
Myers, Army nurses of the
301st Field Hospital, Cedar
Rapids, la„ arrive at Ft. Ord,
Calif. The 301st was recalled
to active duty Oct. 14 and as
signed to the Ft. Ord hospital.
Local Bands'
Xmas Concert
December Uth
Newton County Blue Ram
bler Band and the Cadet Band
will present their annuai
Christmas Concert at the New
ton County High School Audi
torium on Thursday night, De
cember 14, at 8 p.m.
The program to be present
ed by the Cadet Band will
consist of the following:
“The Thunderer March”, by
Sousa.
“Londonderry Air”, by Wal
ters.
“Air for Band”, Erickson
“Trumpeter’s Lullaby”, by
Anderson, featuring a sec
tion of the Cadet Band
trumpeters.
The Blue Rambler Band will
present the following selec
tions: “Tara Theme”, arranged
especially for the Blue Ram
bler’s, and featuring Mada
Patterson, president, directing.
The original “John Philip
Sousa Composition, Semper
Fidelis”.
Bach's Contata 147, “Jesu,
Joy of Man’s Desiring”, with
a stirring coral by the brass
section and typical Bach con
trapuntal accompaniment from
the woodwind voices.
A very ambitious undertak
ing of the band will then be
the entire three movements of
the “First Suite in E Flat”, by
Holst, including First move
ment, Chaconne. 2nd Intermez
zo and 3rd, March.
An appropriate and favorite
of many will be “Christmas
Festival”, by Anderson, which
will feature many of the well
known Christmas Carols.
Concluding the evening’s
musical program will be the
ever inspiring “Dixieland Jam
boree”, by Warrington.
Tickets are on sale by the
Band Booster’s Club for 25 and
50 cents with proceeds to go
to the band. Everyone is in
vited to come and enjoy an
evening of music or if impos
sible to attend purchase a
ticked for the benefit of the
local bands.
An effective trend in interior
design is the utilization of fin
ishes for wood that enhance its
grain character.
According to the Southern
Pine Association, transparent
stains for ceiling beams, ex
posed lumber or paneling give
any color in the spectrum with
out obscuring the wood tex
ture. When different hues are
applied, there is contrast, with
the texture interest providing a
harmonizing feature.
Truth has only to change
hands a few t’mes to become
fiction.
This Paper Is Covington's
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
Almost Struck
Out on TB
By Charles 0. Finley
Chairman, 1961 National
Christmas Seal Campaign,
and owner of the Kansas
City Athletics baseball
team.
I thought I was going to sell I
the doctor some insurance on
that MOST IMPORTANT DAY .
OF MY LIFE. But the doctor ,
noticed that I needed insurance
more than he did. That was a
bad cough I had, he said. He
was right.
He checked me and found
that I had TB. I had it bad.
Pneumonic TB, what they used
to call “galloping consumption.”
So I went to the TB hospital
and stayed two years. Just be
cause I tried to sell the man
some insurance. Not a very
good joke, I guess, but I told
myself a lot of bad jokes while
I was lying on that hospital
bed. While my wife worked
and tried to keep the family to
gether.
Somehow things worked out,
much better than I had any
right to expect. That stay in
the hospital was really the
turning point of my life. Dur
ing one of those long nights I
got the idea of starting the in
surance business that I now
head, the business that brought
me financial success. It also
made it possible for me to rea
lize a boyhood ambition by buy
ing a major league baseball
club.
1 shouldn’t neglect to men
tion that my wife did manage
to hold the family together
while I got back on my feet.
We’ve been rather successful in
this line too — seven children
now.
I know what TB means.
That’s why I have gladly ac
cepted the national chairman
ship of the 1961 Christmas Seal
. Campaign. That’s why I ask all
I Americans to make theii
; Christmas Seal contribution:
, and join my plan of “Christ
. mas Seals for Health Insur
ance.”
Livestock Sale
Totals $55,756
Tri - County Livestock Auc
tion Company sold 589 head of
cattle and 34 hogs Monday for
a total of $56,756.18. Milk cow a
and springers topped at $277.-
50: baby calves, at $23.; and
pigs at $5.50. Stockers sold
from $65. to $l7B.
Price ranges were: calves,
$16.50 to $32.; heifers, sl7. to
$25.; steers, $16.50 to $27.50;
light bulls, sls. to $21.50;
heavy bulls, sl7. to $19.; can
ners, $10.50 to $13.; cutters,
sl3. to $14.50; fat cows, $15.;
to sl7. and hogs, sls. to $16.75.
There were 173 shippers and
84 buyers, including 10 pack
ers.
Mike Budd, John Corley Are
"Band Members of Month”
■ j JB
MLuti 4esv
-nt t
Ik. Ty Jr 1 i
; ft w^tef'A. .wr
■■<-|r M ■ wWwdW - : t *•.
WB OH
MIKE BUDD JOHN CORLEY
Band member of the month
is Mike Budd, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Budd of Oxford.
He attends the Allen Memorial
Methodist Church. Mike is a
senior and plays first trombone
in the band. He was president
of the band last year and he
is section leader this year. He
attended Middle Tennessee
Band Camp at Middle Tennes
see College and received anex
cellent rank for a solo at the
Festival. He is very active in
school being a member of the
Beta Club, Key Club, Hi-Y
Oxford Visit
Bloodmobile
Gets 5/ Pints
The American Red Cross
Bloodmobile visited Oxford No
vember 29th. Fifty-seven pints
of blood were collected from the
persons listed below:
Pate Massey, Melvin L. Con
rad, Jack de Jarnette, Jr.,
Charles A. Burnett, William
Cook, Edward Hamm, John
W. Gregory, Fred Landt, Her
man A. Gibbs, Mrs. Mary Bal
lard, Norman L. Bennett, Dan
Sammons, Robert Gordon Fitz
gerald.
Mrs. Rebecca Mask, Fred
Payne, Carlos B. Meyer, Mar
shall Elizer, Betty Garner,
Thomas V. Thoroughman, Mrs.
Eula Conrad, Sgt. Robert L.
Baker, Raybun C. Mask, Tom
Peters, Mrs. LaVerna R. Hay
nes, Lois Watkins, Mrs. Doris
Katz, Grace Owens, Georgia
Durden, Mrs. Ruby Ellis, Sam
Mozley, Nathan L. Atkinson;
Herbert Katz; C. J. Tinsley;
Frances Beale, Everett H.
Pratt, Jr. ‘
Louisa Williams, Mrs. Anna
B. Jackson, Allen T. Brisendine,
Jr., Jerry Kerby; Joseph E.
Guillebeau, Jr., Kathrine Da
vidson; Rev. W. Y. Murphy;
John T. Garrigues, Mrs. Huan
ne Burnett;. J. L. Higgins; Mary
Louise Jordan, Bennie Ware;
Marold Moton, T. B. Tyler, L.
R. Lingold, Ray Stone, Eugene
D. Whatley, Mamie Lou Scar
{ borough, James E. Anglin,
Louise Garrigues.
Daniel W. House, James
. Byrd, Mrs. Myrtle House, Mrs.
- Violet Bankston, Cecil Allgood,
- Mrs. Fran Elizer, Richard Sch
-1 nieder, J. W. Burson, Mrs.
1 Claire Ellis, Elmer Blanken
r ship, Charles Ellis and W. D.
is Ballard.
Newton County remains in
- good standing with the Atlanta
(Regional Blood Bank until our
next Bloodmobile visit March
15, 1962 in Covington.
“Many thanks to the ladies
of Oxford and to the doctors of
Newton County for services
during the Bloodmobile visit
in Oxford,” a Newton County
। blood official stated.
Pedestrians can see head
lights long before a driver can
see pedestrians, the Allstate
Safety Crusade points out.
Those on foot should take ad
vantage of this and never
count on a motorist seeing them
or giving pedestrians the bene
fit of the doubt.
When using pesticides, al
ways read the label on each
container before use and fol
low the directions, advises
Miss Lucile Higginbotham, head
of the Extension health de
partment.
Club and president of the Stu
dent Council.
John Corley is a freshman
and plays first chair third
trombone and has been select
ed as Rookie of the Month. Ha
is the son of Mr. and Mr* H.
S. Corley of Covington ana at
tends the Church of the Good
Shephard. He was a member of
the Cadet Band and he now
plays in the dance band.
We congratulate these two
for their accomplishments and
wish them luck in the future.
NUMBER 49