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NEW YEAR'S PRAYER 1962
By ROBERT W. BURNS
Minister,
Peachtree Christian Church
0 Thou who hast blessed the
past with Thy presence and
dost offer Thyself to us as our
comrade for the years ahead,
keep alive in us the memory of
those dear to us whom Thou
hast received out of this world.
Let not the burden of our grief
or the weariness of life keep
us from Thee. We can face
whatever comes with cheerful
courage if Thou art at our side.
Grant us grace, not to do
great deeds, but to do small
tasks graciously. Deliver us
from our needless anxieties and
the fruitless fears with which
we defeat, ourselves. Help us to
overcome our hopeless brood
ing and the inpatience of our
irritable weakness. Show us
how to simplify our lives and
clarify our minds.
We pray for all men every
where, that we may learn how
to live together in righteous
ness. with honor gladly given
to those who differ from us in
color or in creed. Teach us how
to be peacemakers, that we
may see Thee for ourselves.
We praise Thee for our fam
ilies, remembering in gratitude
the kindred spirits who answer
deeply to our own. Within our
homes, knit us even closer in
mutual love and responsibili
ty ons for another. Turn Thou
the heart of parents and chil
dren toward one another in glad
acceptance and understand
ing. Teach us how to receive
and give love to those who live
with us in the close ties of
home. For those who have no
family of their own we pray
a’so, that they may be aware
that they are Thy children.
As the old year ends and
the new begins, we seek Thy
finest blessing upon us, Thy
friendship for us every one, a
companion all the way from
youth to age, a light within the
heart, a joy to kindle in us our
desire to live at our best, a
comfort in our sorrow and an
inspiration in our daily work.
All our years are Thine, and
we are Thine. Use us for Thy
purposes made known in Jesus
Christ, our Saviour, the Lord
of all the ages. AMEN.
Pilot Club
Meets Tonight
The Pilot Club of Covington
will meet Thursday, tonight, at
the Board of Education Build
ing.
The executive board will
meet at 7:15 P.M. and the busi
ness meeting will begin at 8:00
P.M.
All members are urged to at
tend and bring staple food for
the needed pantry.
COVINGTON NEWS
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County to Get New License Plates With Number 38
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NEWTON COUNTY'S NEW LICENSE plates went on sale at the Tax Office Tuesday morning. Shown
above in the office is Matt Klimaszewski (left) and Bonham Johnson. Tax Collector, admiring the
new tag which Mr. Klimaszewski purchased. The Newton plates this year jumped from 43 to 33.
as signified by the tag shown here. The line of prospective tag buyers is shown in the background.
A Prise-Winning
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The Covinc ' se > Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
VOLUME 98
TV' NEWTON COUNTY BOYS ARE MURDERED
Midwa, assion
To Become
Church Sunday
On Sunday afternoon, Janu
ary 7, at 3:00 P.M., Midway
Baptist Mission, located on
Fiat Shoals Road between Cov
ington and Porterdale, will be
constituted into a Baptist
Church, with 80 charter mem
bers. This date was chosen for
the constitution service because
the Mission will be one year
old, having been started the
first Sunday in January of
last year under the sponsor
ship of High Point and County
Line Baptist churches.
Twenty-two people were
present on that first Sunday,
and three people presented
themselves for membership in
that first service, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Kinnett and Mrs. Nell
Singley. Enrolment has steadi
ly increased, and the Mission
now has 80 members, 146 en
rolled in Sunday School, and
87 in Training Union. Howard
King is Sunday School super
intendent and Bobby Herring
is Training Union director.
Bryant Steele, layman from
the High Point Baptist Church,
has been serving as Mission
pastor.
The main speaker Sunday
afternoon will be Dr. Searcy
S. Garrison, executive-secre
tary treasurer of the Georgia
Baptist Convention. Everyone
is extended a cordial invitaton
to be present.
Martin E. Goode
Completes 8-Week
Officer Course
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Army 2d Lt. Martin E.
Goode 111. 24, whose parents
live at 607 Legion Dr., Coving
ton, Ga., completed the eight
week officer orientation course
at The Chemical Corps School,
Fort McClellan, Ala., Dec. 16.
Lieutenant Goode was train
ed in the duties of a Chemical
Corps officer and received in
struction in the tactics, tech
niques and material used in
chemical-biological - radiologi
cal (CBR) operations and de
fense.
The lieutenant is a 1955
graduate of Emory Junior Col
lege. Oxford, a 1961 graduate
cf Georgia Institute of Tech
nology, Atlanta, and a mem
ber of Phi Delta Theta frater
nity.
Chanqe in C of C
Meeting Date
The Newton County Cham
ber of Commerce will not meet
on the regular second Monday
in January for their meeting.
The date has been changed to
January 15, 1962, according to
President Thompson.
Stye (Uninngtim
Sen. Talmadge
Says Japs Are
"Interfering"
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge has termed as “inter
ference” Japanese protests
against a U.S. Tariff Commis
sion study on the cotton con
tent of textile imports.
The Georgia junior .senator
said the Japanese government
has lodged an official protest
with the State Department. He
urged President Kennedy to ig
nore it. Said Talmadge:
“It is my hope that the Pres
ident will not be influenced
unduly by the receipt of pro
tests relayed through the De
partment of State. Such pro
tests appear to me as interfer
ence and can serve only to
confuse the public. They are
particularly undesirable on the
eve of congressional considera
tion of trade policy legislation.”
Masonic Lodge
Officers
Installed
Open installation services
were held last Wednesday
night at the Masonic Lodge for
1962 officers of Golden Fleece
Lodge of Covington. Charles
Kitchens, outgoing Worshipful
Master, welcomed the wives of
the Masons and guests for the
occasion. Installing officer for
the evening was James Vining,
Porterdale.
Officers installed for the
coming year were: Donald
Heim, Worshipful Master; Otis
(Tom) Lott, Senior Warden;
Arthur Jones, Junior Warden;
C. G. Henderson, Treasurer;
Col. R. M. Tuck, secretary;
Charles Kitchens, Chaplain;
Oliver Meadors, Senior Deacon;
Lamar Malcom, Junior Deacon;
Jack Christian, Senior Steward;
Paul Madden. Junior Steward
and Troy Kendrick, Tyler.
Prior to the ’installation of
the officers, Mrs. Leigh Jay,
guest soloist, sang “How Great
Thou Art”. She was accom
panied by Mrs. Reba Whelchel.
At the conclusion of the ser
vice Charles Kitchens, outgo
ing Worshipful Master, was
presented his past. Master’s
ring by newly installed Donald
Helm. Master Helm then gave
a short talk and welcomed all
present. Mrs. Jay sang. “Bless
This House”, followed by the
closing prayer by Col. Tuck.
D e li c i o u s refreshments of
cakes and hot coffee were
served in the dining hall of the
lodge.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. 1962
Newton School Children to Get Oral Polio Vaccine
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ONE-HALF OF THIS SCENE WILL BE enacted over Newton County starting January 15ih when
oral polio vaccine will be given the school children and adults. The two youngsters in the pic
ture, Jane Hardman and Mark Lord, are each being given a polio vaccine. Miss Sara Gordon (left).
Pi Alic Health Nurse, is using the needle on Jane's arm, while Mark receives his “lump of sugar"
vaccine from Mrs. Helen Hardman. Public Health Nurse. The question could easily be asked: "Who
wouldn't swap a lifetime of periodic shots for a few lumps of sugar?”
School Children To Get
Oral Polio Vaccine Jan. 15-19
“Who wouldn’t swap a life
time of periodic shots for a few
lumps of sugar? One to say the
least is painful and must con
tinue periodically for life ac
cording to those who know. The
other is three lumps of sugar
and that is the end,” stated Dr.
Stevens Byars, District Director
of Public Health.
The oral polio vaccine has
three advantages. Ist ease of
giving, 2nd more complete pro
tection, 3rd permanent protec
tion. After taking the oral vac
cine, each type on a lump of
sugar, no more boosters.
The present plans of the New
ton County Health Department
are to give type I oral vac
cine to the school children in
the county the week of Jan. 15-
19. The tentative plans are to
be in Ficquett and Newton
High, Jan. 15. Washington St.
School and R. L. Cousins school
Jan. 16. Palmer Stone Jan. 17,
Kiwanians to
Hear Committee
Chairmen Today
Chairmen of the various
committees for 1962 of the
Covington Kiwanis Club will
be heard today (Thursday) at
Legion Home when the club
holds its first meeting of the
new year. The dinner and pro
gram will get underway at the
usual 1 o’clock hour.
Presiding at the meeting to
day will be the new president,
of the Covington Kiwanians. *
George B. Hutchinson.
Each Committee chairman is
expected to give a brief out- i
line of the objectives and pro- •
gram his committee plans for
the year 1962.
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Induction of the 1962 slate
of officers of the Covington Ki
wanis Club comprised the pro
gram Thursday at Legion Home.
Tom Berdishaw, 12th Division |
Lt.-Gov., performed the in
stallation ceremony.
George B Hutchinson is the ’
new president of the club sue- j
ceeding Don Wood.
Visitors at the meeting
Thursday included: Rev. Frank j
Martin of Florence, Ala. guesti
of John Bob Weaver: Dr. Bill j
Dickey. Jr., guest of his father j
W J. Dickey: Lt. Sam Ramsey,
guest of his father C. D. Ram- j
sey; Arliss Stewart. Glenn
Mitchell, and Graham Mitchell. '
Kiwanians of the Hampton
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Mansfield, East Newton and
Heard Mixon schools Jan. 18.
Porterdale and Livingston
schools Jan. 19. The Health De
partment will Hold it’s Usual
Saturday Clinic in the morn
ing and if it isn't too swamped
will offer the oral vaccine to
the general public. There will
be other clinics planned for the
general public, Preschool Child
ren and adults, during the fol
lowing week (Jan. 22 thru 26),
Dr. Byars stated.
Some time prior to Jan. 15
a card will be sent home by
each child in school requesting
you to check appropriate parts
and return to your child’s
teacher. It is vitally important
that this card gets back to the
school properly filled and
signed.
There will be no charge for
the vaccine. The vaccine is fur
nished to the State Health De
partment by the Communicable
Disease Center of Atlanta. This
is a branch of the United States
Public Health Service.
Dr. Henry Jones
To Preach Sun.
At Porterdale
The Julia A. Porter Memorial
Methodist Church in Porter-1
dale, will have as its guest prea
cher at the 11 O’clock service,
Sunday, January 7, Dr. Henry
H. Jones, Secretary of Pemons
of the North Georgia Confer
ence of the Methodist Church.
Dr. Jones was a District Su
perintendent of this District for
several years and writes the
Sunday School lessons for the
church paper, The Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, as he has
done for many years.
The pastor of the church, Rev.
H. H. Dillard, extends a cordial
invitation to the many friends
of Dr. Jones in this area, to
come and hear his message and
see him again.
NOTICE TO ALL CLASSIFIED
AND DISPLAY ADVERTISERS
On and after January 1,1962 all Classified advertis
ing will be at the rate of 80c per inch or less and all
display advertising will be at the rate of 85c per Inch.
Driver License
Renewal Period
Jan. 2-Mar. 31
It's now driver license re
newal time in Georgia for some
1.5-million motorists. The re
newal period extends from
Jan. 2 to March 31. 1962. Those
who fail to renew their licenses
before the deadline will be re
quired to take a complete exa
mination, both a driver’s test
and a written examination.
That is the official word from
Col. H. Lowell Conner, director
of the Georgia Department of
Public Safetly, who has just re
leased the schedule showing
license validating machines dur
ing the 90-day period.
Renewals may be made at al)
State Patrol posts and on special
days when validating machines
are set up in communities
throughout Georgia. (Consult
local newspapers, radio and
television stations, motors clubs
or local law enforcement agen-
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Covington Had
A Low of 15
On December 30
Jack Chapman, local weather
man, announces the following
temperatures for Covington
during the past week:
High Low
Wed. Dec. 27. 57 31
Thurs. Dec. 28. 49 27
Fri. Dec. 29. 35 19
Sat. Dec. 30, 45 15
Sun. Dec. 31, 44 30
Mon. Jan. 1, 41 32
Tues. Jan. 2. 42 30
Rainfall during the week to
taled .93 inch mixed with some
snow and sleet. Total rainfall
for the month of December was
7.90 and for the year 57.24 in
ches.
MORE THAN
20,000
READERS WEEKLY
Wayne, Tommy Henderson
Victims Shotgun Slaying
A 20-year-old Rockdale County youth, Charles Byrd, his
girl friend and a 15-year-old boy have been charged with
murder in the shotgun slaying of Douglas Wayne Hender
son, 16, and his brother William Thomas (Tommy) Hender
son, 15, of Covington Wednesday night in the Smyrna sec-
tion of the county. The two ।
murdered victims’ bodies were'
dumped into a well, according
to Sheriff J. T. Wallace of Rock
dale County.
The Henderson boys were
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie F.
Henderson of the Almon section
of Newton County. Mr. Hender
son is employed by White’s Tire
and Auto Supply in Covington. I
Sheriff Wallace said l)yrd, '
whom he described as mentally .
unbalanced, lined up the Hen- |
derson brothers and 16-year-old
James Michael Flanagan in the
path of his car’s headlights and .
blasted them in the head with
three shots from a 16-gauge
shotgun, held about a yard away.
The Flanagan boy, hit first,
was blasted to the ground; then
the Henderson boy* were shot
down.
Sheriff Wallace said that Flan
agan jumped up and escaped
into the darkness while Byrd
was dumping the bodies of the
Henderson boy* into a dry 20-
foot well.
“If the Flanagan boy. who had
been shot first, had been thrown
| in first, I don’t know when we’d
i have found their bodies,” Sheriff
I Wallace commented.
Flanagan, badly wounded and
bleeding heavily, ran down a dirt
road that had been turned into
a quagmire by heady rains. De
spite a fractured skull and man
gled arm, he ran about two miles
to the home of Jerry Fitzpatrick
to obtain aid.
He was treated locally, then
taken to Emory University Hos- |
pita) where his condition was !
described as serious.
“I was told Byrd lined them j
up and told them, ‘l’m going to '
shoot you one, two, three,’ and
then started firing,” Sheriff
Wallace said.
He also said leg irons which
had been placed on the boys
when they first met Byrd and his
companions were removed just
before they got out of Byrd’s
car.
The sheriff said Flanagan told
him he thought Byrd was joking
when the leg irons were first
placed on.
The scene of the killing was
the front yard of a Jong-de
stroyed home. Located off Ga.
212, near the Smyrna camp-
Dana Ruth Pippin Is New Year Baby
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LITTLE MISS DANA RUTH PIPPIN was the fir* child born in
the New Year at Newton County Hospital. She is the daughter oi
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Pippin of Route 2, Covington. Mrs. Pippin is
the former Patricia Lassiter of Covington. Dana Ruth was born
at 3:08 a. m. Monday and weighed 6 pounds, 13 and 3/4 ounces
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grounds, the site s frequency
used as a rendezvous by young
I couples.
Sheriff Wallace said Byrd’*
car skidded into a ditch as he
was pulling away from the scene,
bending a front bumper so that
a tire later went flat.
“They were fixing the flat
I when we arrested them,’’ Wal
| lace said.
The trio was picked up on the
I basis of the description of Byrd *
i car given by Flanagan. “They
all denied knowing anything at
i first,” the sheriff said, but state
'S ments were later obtained.
Sheriff Wallace said the Hen
dersons and Flanagan were taken
to the scene of the killing in leg
irons — placed on them when
they first entered Byrd’s car at
a drive-in theater near Conyers.
He said Flanagan and the Hen
derson brother* were invited ini#
the car.
“After shooting the three boys,
Charles Byrd told one of the ar
rested persons *T’ve got six more
'friends’ to meet.’” Sheriff Wal
lace reported.
A 3-shot bolt-action shotgun
was found hidden between mat
tresses in Byrd’s home. Byrd in
recent months had been acting as
caretaker for Frank McCord, a
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J Newton
Dairymen
Get Awards
Seven Newton County dairy
farmers received the DHIA “10-
4 Dairy Club” award yesterday
(Wednesday) at Rock Eagle
Park near Eatonton. The award
is given DHIA members whose
cows produce 10,000 lbs of milk
or 400 lbs. of butterfat, or
both.
Newton farmers who receiv
ed the award were: Alton Jol
ley, Leonard Standard, Sam
B. Hay, Jr., D. B. Dixon, Melvin
King, T. L. Marks and Sons,
A. C. Ewing and Sons.
The awards were made at •
luncheon at the 4-H Center.