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YOLUME 97
Newton Band Enters National ‘“Music Man’’ Festival
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Mason City, lowa In June
By LUCILLE SXINNER
The Blue Rambler Band of Newton County High School
received one of the highest honors to be bestowed on a Geor
gia high school band this week when notice was received here
of their having been accepted to represent Georgia in “The
Music Man”, National March
ing Band Competition Festival,
to be held in Mason City, lowa,
on June 19, 1962.
The telegram received Mon
day here read:
Mason City, lowa
Dec. 18, 1961
Basil Rigney
Newton County High School
Covington, Georgia
“Your band selected repre
gent your state Music Man
Festival. Letter follows. Wire
immediately your continued and
firm intention to be here”
Mason City Chamber of
Commerce
Application blanks were sent
outstanding bands of each state
last summer and after exten
sive work, sending of motion
picture film of the band in
formation drills, recording
tapes, newspaper items and
testing by outstanding band di
rectors, the band to represent;
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Mrs. Cartledge
At 3 o'clock
. CloC
Funeral services for M r s.
Victoria E. Cartledge of Hicks
Avenue, Covington, will be held
teday (Thi rday), December
21, at 3 p. m. at the Chapel of
Czldwell and Cowan Funeral
Home, Rev. M. L. Arnold will
of “cizte at the services.
Mrs. Cartledge, 82, was born
in Cobb County. She died at
her home Tuesday after a lin
gering illness.
Surviving are four sons,
Claude Cartledge, Dalton; Frank
Cartledge, Eddie Cartledge,
Tommy Cartledge, t hree
daughters, Mrs. Guy Ellis, Mrs.
Grady Bruce, Mrs. Erman
Johnson, all of Covington; 29
grandchildren, 30 great-grand
children and two great-great
grandchildren. Among the
grandchildren are two, Ray and
James Cartledge, who are em
ployed by the: NEWS.
Interment will be in Coving
ton Mills Cemetery with Cald
well and Cowan Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements.
The NEWS joinsthem an y
friends in extending deepest
sympathy to the members of the
bereaved family.
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Covington Mills Officials Greet Santa Claus
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l’n:!on Mills Sixth Annual Christmas Party Sunday afternoon at Ficquett Cafetorium. Ladies in
the background aided Santa in distributing the presents to the youngsters.
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
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| each state was selected by a
qualified panel of musical au
thorities. The principal out
standing director recommend
ing the Blue Rambler Band
was Rodger Dantz of the Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens.
In addition to some 80 re
gional school bands that par
ticipate each year in the Mason
City Festial from lowa and
Minnesota, the Festival of High
School Marching Bands will
feature a band from each of
the 49 states, to compete for
many top National honors and
awards.
The Festival on June 19,
1962 will salute the much her
alded Warner Bros. motion pic
ture, Meredith Willson’s “The
Music Man”, which will have
its world press premiere a:
Mason City on this date. Mason
City is the boyhood home of
Willson and the “River City”
of the movie. Warner Bros.|
will bring to Mason City a con- |
tingent of National press, radio
and television representatives,
plus motion picture stars and
other celebrities.
Major school awards will in
clude more than SIO,OOO in
RMC Reynolds band instru
ments including sousaphones,
Continued On Page 36
| Rainfall Here
I In December
' Totals 7.62 In. |
! Temperatures in Covington |
| during the past week were:
[ High Low
Wed. Dec. 13, 59 33
IThurs. Dec. 14, 42 30
| Fri. Dec. 15, 50 39
Sat. Dec. 186, 48 39
| Sun. Dec. 17, 43 36
Mon. Dec. 18, 68 43
Tues. Dec. 19, 64 42 |
Rainfall during the week to-l
taled 3.55 inches, for the month
to date, 7.63 inches.
Letters to Santa:
Dear Santa Claus,
I want you to bring me a
go-cart, a football and a gas |
| airplane. For my baby sister I
want you to bring a pretty doll
and a tea set and a piano, lots
| of nuts and a sack full of toast
|ed nuts.
Billy Dawkins
Che @ouington News
Chester Parnell
Rises Today at
P'dale Church
| Chester N. Parnell, 59, of‘
| Collum Road, ' died suddenly
Tuesday, December 19. He wasi
a native of Butts County and
employed by the State Highway
Department. |
Funeral services will be held
today (Thursday), December
21, at 4 p. m. at the Church of
Our Lord Jesus Christ w i t h
Bishop J. T. Payne officiating.
Remains will lie in state at the
church from 3:30 until funeral
hour. |
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Callie Parnell, one daughter,
Mrs. Mary Joan Harmon, both'
of Covington; two brothers,
Luther Parnell, Atlanta; M.
Parnell, Covington: four sis-‘
ters, Mrs. Rose (Jack) Bagley,
Atlanta; Mrs. Estelle Lunsfox‘d,'
Covington; Mrs. Oteel Digby,
Birmingham, Alabama; Mrs.!
Dovie Chapel, Atlanta. (
Interment will be in Lawn
wood Memorial Park, Coving-i
ton, with Caldwell and Cowan:
Funeral Home in charge of ar-|
rangements. '
The NEWS extends deepest |
sympathy to the members of|
| the bereaved family in their |
| loss.
l Mrs. Geo. Wells
On Tuesday |
’ Mrs. George T. (Nellie) Wells,
|of Atlanta, dled Monday, De
cember 18, in an Atlanta hos-l
pital where she had been a pa-‘
| tient for the past six months. |
tShe was a native of Newtoni
{ County and was 90 years old at
| the time of her death. ‘
; Funeral services were he]d‘
iTuesday afternoon at the grave
{side in Covington Cemetery
| with Rev. Edgar A. Callaway,
’pastor of the First Baptist
Church, officiating at the last
‘rites.
{ Surviving are one daughter
{ Mrs. George M. Elrod, Atlan
{ta; one grandson, G. M. El-
Irod Jr., Huntsville, Alabama
]and three great grandchildren.
J. C. Harwell and Son Fun
eral Home were in charge of
arrangements. Serving as pall
| bearers were Robert Fowler,
J. B. Weaver, G. M. Elrod Jr,
| Reginald Robinson, Guy Rog
ers and W. S. Cook.
| The NEWS joins the many
friends in extending deepest
sympathy to the members of the
bereaved family in their sor
row. i
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1961
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'Cevington Kiwanis President-Elect Outlines Work for 1962
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| COVINGTON KIWANIS President-Elect George Huiichinson (left) is delivering an outline of the
work to be carried on by the club during the year 1962 at the organizational meeting held re
cently. The annual occasion brings together the incoming officers and commitiee chairmen for a
planning session. Nthers in the photo are, left to right facing camera: Phillip Cohen, chairman public
and bi, ‘ness affa’rs commiitee; Frank Meadors, vice-president; and Bob Greer, vice-president. Also
shown zre Sam M. Hay (center), member of boari of directors, and Donald Stephenson, chairman
agriculture and conservation committee.
Rep. Flynt—ggy_s__()ilr Nation [
Stronger Today Than Year Ago
I Representative Jack Flynt of|
the 4th Congressional District
spoke to the Covington Kiwanis
Club last Thursday on the is
sues facing the United States—
|internationally and domestical
ly —in the world today. -
Praising the “New Frontier”
administration of President
Kennedy, Flynt told the Ki
wanis Club, ‘“Our nation is
stronger by far today than ‘it
was when we began the year.
Although the world facing
an accomplished blueprint of
Communism, I am not concern
ed over the world being involv
ed in another war in the near
future because the United
States 'is militarily and eco
nomically - stronger - than Rus
sia and we would be able to
retaliate and crush our foe even
if we were struck first.”
Challenging the Kiwanis
Club, and all Americans, to help
continue to maintain the mili
tary, economic, and moral
structure that has made our na
tion great, Flynt turned his talk
to legislation that will be on
the agenda when Congress con
venes on January 8. 1962.
Education Aid
Rep. Flynt, speaking about
Federal Aid to Education, told
the group that much to t h e
surprise of many people, this
action by the Federal govern
ment was not anything new. Re
cords show. that it was begun as
early as 1917.
“All of the legislation con
cerning Federal Aid to Educa-
. . . . . .
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COVINGTON MILLS Sixth Annual Christmas Party was held Sunday afternoon
at the Ficquett School Cafeteria. Shown above with Santa Claus are the ladies
who helped distribute the gifts during the afternoon. The program started with
\
| tion that has thusfar come be- |
{fore the House of Representa
tives has dealt with the con
s.ruction of school - facilities
only,” Flynt said. He also add
ed that more schools have been
built in this country during the
past 10 years than during any
| other period of our history.
.| “No operation and mainten
.l ence fund or teachers salary
| fund legislation has been acted
.ion sofar,” Flynt said. If the
| Kennedy administration’s pro
‘| posed legislation passes dur
|ing this session of Congress,
{one half of the money alloted{
| (S4BO million) will be used the
| first year to set up a Federal
| Education Agency with cabinet
level and build 46 new office
| buildings to house the new
branch.
“As your congressman, I am
in favor of Federal Aid to Ed
ucation,” Flynt said,” but I al
so favor each state knowing in
advance each year how much
money that it can expect from
the Federal government. I feel
that this money should come
into the state education office
to be used as the state and lo
cal school officials determine
and with no other strings at
tached as long as the funds are
used for bonified educational
purposes.” :
Medical Aid '
~ “Medical care paid for under
the Social Security Act as pre
sent legislation before Con
gress calls for present the dan-
Continued On 6th Front Po7e l
Welding Clinic
For Farmers Set
FFA Ccmp, Jan. 2
Local farmers are you in
terested in learning to weld?
Did you know that 90 percen!
of all the welding, -cutting
| piercing, brazing, and solder
ing can be' done on an electric
| welding machine and that one
| welding rod will do nearly all
| this? A welding clinic will be
gin in the Vocational Agricui
| ture Field, at Georgia Power
.| Building at F.F.A. Camp.
l J. D. Smith, Vocational Agri
| culture Teacher, will be ass'st
|ed by Robert Allen, Area
| Teacher. The course will in
clude steps in learning to weld,
welding cast iron, hardsurfac
ing, soldering, cutting, and
brazing with the arc torch.
If you would like to learn to
| weld and see what can be done
with one machine and one rod,
please be present Tuesday
night, January 2nd at 7:30.
This elinic is primarily for
farmers and not to train for
industrial jobs. The eclinic will
be held five weeks, one night
per week.
Letters to Santa:
Dear Santa Claus,
I want a Genny doll, a Sis
terbell doll that talks, a desk,
a. jumping Jack, a majorette
suit.
Please don't forget the poor
boys and girls. I have tried to
be a good little givrl. I am seven
years old.
f Marigene Banks.
As on the Day of His birth
imay the world be filled with
peace, today and forever.
words of welcome from George Jolley, plant manager, and T Broderick,
personnel manager. Rev, Carl Cassidy, pastor of the Calvary Blm gave
the invocation,
This Paper Is Covington’s
Ir.dex To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
Mrs. W. T. Dean
Sun., Conyers
Mrs. William T. Dean, t h e
former Sara Will Cowan, of
Conyers, died at a private hos
pital in Atlanta, Friday, De
cember 15, after a lingering ill
ness. Mrs. Dean, the wife of
Judge Dean of the Stone Moun
tain Judicial Circuit, was a life
long resident of Rockdale
County where she was a faith
ful member of the First Meth
odist Church -and until ill
health forced her retirement,
active in all church, civic and
social affairs. '
Funeral services for M r s.
Dean were held Sunday after
| noon as the - First- Methodist
| Church in Conyers, with Rev.
!Max W. Whittemore; Dr. Paul
| Gunnells and Rev. J. Douglas
| Gibson officiating.
Surviving are her husband,
Judge W. T. Dean, Conyers; two
sons William T. Dean Jr., James
C. Dean, two grandsons, Wil
liam T. Dean 111 and Adam Ross‘
Dean, all of Atlanta.
Interment was in Ebenezer
Cemetery with Caldwell and
Cowan Funeral Home of Cov=-
ington and Harry L. White
Funeral Home, Conyers, in
charge of arrangements. In
Lieu of flowers, contributions
| were requested to be made to
| the Building Fund of the Con
| yers First Methodist Church.
|| Serving as pallbearers were J.
| Fred Davis, G. Carl Sims, Bob
| H. Elliott, Dr. J. G. McDaniel,
r Dr. Walker L. Curtis, Dr. Zack
S. Cowan, C. D. Ramsey, C. R.
| Vaughn Jr., Howard E. Wor
|ley and Dean J. Ratliffe.
| The NEWS joins the many
| friends of the family in extend
ing deepest sympathy to them
'|in their sorrow.
Teen-Age Dance
At Elks Club
Thursday, Dec. 28
A Teen-Age Dance will be
held at the Covington Elks
Club Thursday evening, De
cember 28 from 8 until 11
o’clock. The dance is free #nd
is being staged for teen-agers
of Newton, Rockdale, Morgan
and Walton counties.
| “The Elks Trio” will furnish
the music and refreshments
will be served. Walker Harris,
Exalted Ruler of the local Elks
Lodge, has announced that all
teen-agers are invited.
The dance will be informal,
come stag or with an escort,
A Franciscan monk, Jaco
pone da Todi, is believed to be
the first writer of Christmas
carols. ‘
NUMBER 51
CD Director Says
Siren is for
Air Raid Only
Newton County and Coving=
ton Civil Defense Director R,
T. Floyd has clarified the ine
tended uses of the local sirea
and when it should be sounded,
He stated yesterday, “many
people have inquired just why
we do not sound the siren when
we have a natural disaster, The
siren is an Air Raid Siren and
is not used for natural disase
ters.”
Named Edi?or
Glenn Vaughn Jr. has been
promoted to managing editor of
The Columbus Ledger and The
Sunday Ledger-Enquirer, suc=
ceeding Don Wasson, who has
been named public relations
director for Ida Cason Calla
way Gardens.
| Ledger - Enquirer executive
| Editor Edge Reid also an
| nounced the appointment of
| John Coombes as city editor of
| the afternoon daily and the
| Sunday newspaper, replacing
i | Vaughn,
) Vaughn, 32, is a native of
| Newton County. He attended
.| the University of Georgia,
.| where he served as editor of the
)| student newspaper, The Red
» | and Black.
< He formerly was associated
.| with The Albany Herald and
~| The Atlanta Journal and for
a year was editor and publish=
7| er of the weekly Phenix Citizen
- in Phenix City, Ala. He is mar
\ | ried to the former Miss Nancy
Weeks of Ellijay, Ga., and they
have four children.
Coombes, 33, is a native of
Britain and a graduate of Lu=-
ton Technical College of Eng
land. He served in the British
Army and the Federation of
Malaya police.
He has worked as a reporter
on English language dailies in
Southeast Asia and Japan and
with the International news
agency, Reuters, in London.
Dr. J. R. Sams
Is Hospitalized
Dr. J. R. Sams, prominent
Covington physician, is present=
ly a patient at Emory Univer=
sity Hospital, Atlanta.
Dr. Sams is expected to re
turn to his home in the very
near future.
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| IN THE COVINGTON NEWS