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Occasionally we get accus
ed of having “superlative-itis”
when we start naming the good
things about Newton County;
but with such an abundance of
good things, getting better all
the while, it just comes natural
ly to talk like a “Texan”.
As a case in point, three ban
quets were held locally this
week, promoting the progress
of three nation-wide organiza
tions, in which, (here we go
again), Newton County has
played and is playing a leading
role!
There was the 4-H Club
Awards Banquet on Monday
evening at Ficquett School, with
some 230 members and leaders
attending. State 4-H Club Lead
er Tommy Walton commended
the local Clubs for their splen
did achievements; and congra
tulated Newton County on be
ing the birthplace of 4-H-Club
Work in the south. He was cit
ing history, for it was Newton
County’s own G. Claude Adams
who organized the original
Corn Club, which grew into the
National 4-H - Club, along with
an Illinois Corn Club; and
eventually encompassed the
multiple phases of this splen
did organization which trains
i-ural youth to “Make the Best
Better”. The local Extension
Staff of the University of Geor
gia includes County Agricul
tural Agent, Ed Hunt; County
Home Demonstration Agent,
Mrs. Carol McGiboney; and
Mrs. Louise Sams, secretary;
who with adult leaders and
advisors throughout the county
do an exceptional job of lead
ership with club members.
Also on Monday evening,
Newton County Heart Council,
in cooperation with the Georgia
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Covington
Temperatures
Temperatures for the week
in Covington were:
High Low
Wed. Jan. 24, 65 52
Thurs. Jan. 25, 68 57
Fri. Jan. 26, 72 55
Sat. Jan. 27, 65 58
Sun. Jan. 28, 58 41
Mon. Jan. 29, 60 29
Tues. Jan. 30, 68 36
Rainfall for the week was
1 06 inch and for the month of
January six inches.
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THE KICKOFF BANQUET of the Newton County Heart Coun
cil'* annual Heart Fund Drive was held Monday night at the
Covington Elks Club. Shown left to right (seated) are: Mrs. Harry
Faulkner, chairman of the Newton County Heart Council; Dr.
W. A. Hopkins, cardiovascular surgeon who presented the program:
and Dr. Thomas L. Crews, chairman of the Heart Fund Drive.
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VOLUME 98
HUTP <SON AWARDED BSA ‘SILVER BEAVER’
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County Ministers On American Legion Program
"Back To God" Theme Os
Post 32 Meeting Tuesday
The American Legion’s nationwide program with the
theme “Back To God” will be brought close to home Tuesday
evening at the Newton County Post 32 February meeting
at Legion Home at 7 o’clock.
Following the evening meal
a program under the direction
of Rev. Carl Standard, Post 32
Chaplain, will be held in the
auditorium of the Legion build
ing. Dr. Delma Hagood, De
catur-Oxford District Super
intendent, will be the main
speaker.
All ministers of the county
are invited and urged to at
tend the meeting, according to
an announcement by Rev.
Standard and Commander C.
T. Bohanan.
Commander Bohanan said
that all American Legion Posts
of the nation will join in the
observance of the “Back To
God” movement in some form
during the month of February,
1962.
The program set for Post 32
Tuesday, February 6, will
serve as the occasion for the
American Legion post here to
acquaint the ministers of the
county churches with the pro
gram set forth by the largest
veterans organization in Amer
ica.
Hospital Auxiliary
To Meet Wed.
Newton County Hospital Au
xiliary will hold its annual
meeting Wednesday, February
7, with a luncheon at 1 o’clock
at the Welaunee Hotel in Por
terdale.
All members are urged to at
tend.
Benefit Dance
Nets $72.00
The Covington Elks and El
kadette Club realized a total of
$72.00 from the March of Dimes
Benefit Dance Saturday night
at the Elks Club. That sum
will be turned over to the lo
cal March of Dimes drive, Elks
Club officials announced Tues
day.
The benefit dance is an an
nual affair at the Elks Club
and is held during the latter
part of January,
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Dean of School
Pharmacy to Be
Ki wanis Speaker
Dr. Kenneth Waters, Dean of
the School of Pharmacy, Uni
versity of Georgia, will be the
guest speaker at the Covington
Kiwanis club weekly luncheon
meeting today (Thursday) at
Legion Home at 1 o’clock.
In charge of the program to
day is Lanier Hardman and he
will introduce the speaker.
Dr. Waters’ subject will be
“Pharmaceutical Research and
Its Effect On You.”
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Dr. Gordon Barrow of At
lanta, Director of Medical Edu
cation, Georgia Baptist Hos
pital, was the guest speaker at
the Covington Kiwanis Club
weekly luncheon meeting
Thursday. He was introduced
by Dr. Thomas Crews.
February is heart month in
Newton County and the State
of Georgia and Dr. Barrow’s
speech marked the state of the
local drive for funds. Dr. Crews
is Newton County chairman of
the Heart fund drive.
One guest was present for
the meeting Thursday. He was
Rex Rhodes of Atlanta, guest
of Rucker Ginn.
Mental Health
Meeting Feb. 8
The Board of Directors of
the Newton County Mental
Health Association will meet at
the Legion Hall on Thursday,
February 8, at 2 p.m.
Nelson Hoffman, professor
at Emory at Oxford, will speak
and plans for local projects will
be discussed. All directors are
urged to be present.
Standing are: Dr. Jordan Callaway, past vice-president of the
local council: Mrs. Helen Dickinson, Newton County Hospital Ad
ministrator and past council chairman; Mrs. Vee Johnson, field
representative of the Georgia Heart Association: Mrs. R. A. Cobb,
a "star patient" of the Newton County stroke clinic; and Dr. Good
win Tuck, medical advisor io the Heart Council.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1962
Boy Scout Officials Congratulate Honoree
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GEORGE B. HUTCHINSON of Covingion was honored for his 24 years of voluntary service lo the
Boy Scouts of America with the "Silver Beaver Award" Tuesday night at the 46th Annual Banquet
of the Atlanta Area Council. Left to right are: O. B. "Country" Gorman, Chief Scout Executive
of the Atlanta Area Coucil; E. G. Lassiter. Jr. Newton-Rockdale District Chairman; Mrs. Sara Hut
chinson, and Mr. Hutchinson.
Shorthorn Spring Show, Sale
At Tri-County Auction Feb. 16
The spring show and sale of
the Southeastern Regional
Shorthorn and Polled Short
horn Breeders’ Ass’n will be
। moved to Social Circle, Geor
gia, according to Bruce Han
cock, Stone Mountain, Ga., sec
retary of the organization
which has members in six
Southeastern states.
The 1962 spring event will
be held at the Tri - County
Auction Market, Friday, Feb.
16, with the cattle judged in
the morning by Dr. R. A. Long,
head of the animal husbandry
department, University of
Georgia. The auction sale will
start at 12 noon.
“This will be the 29th in our
series of semi-annual sales,”
Hancock said, “But it will be
the first time we have held it
at Social Circle. Our fall event
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; Oral Vaccine
: Continues
. Due to unpleasant weather
and an epidemic of flu along
with other natural hindrances
1 and interruptions the Newton
County Health Department did
■ not meet it’s expected goal
1 during the first week of opera
; tion Sugar Lump. This seems
f to be the general opinion over
the eleven county area sur
rounding Atlanta.
For these reasons the New
' ton County Health Department
' decided to continue “Operation
! Sugar Lump” into a third week.
Health Department personnel
The Newton County Health
Department will be open
Friday evening from fl until
8 o'clock for the convenience
of those who wish to receive
their oral polio vaccine. All
persons W'ho find it difficult
to come to the health office
during the day are urged to
come Friday evening.
will be in the Health Center
from nine until four each day
of this week except Wednesday
and Saturday. The Health De
partment will close on these
days at Twelve noon. They will'
be expecting you if you have
so far missed your “lump of
sugar”.
During the first two weeks
of “Operation Sugar Lump”
the Health Department has
given 721 doses of the oral vac
cine to children under the age
of six years. They have given
5,185 doses to school children,
and 1,678 doses to adults. The j
schools are to be congratulated
for their excellent work, stated
Dr. Stevens Bvars. Newton
County Health Director. Adults
have responded fairly well.
There are still many children
। under school age who have not
yet received their oral vac
cine. Dr. Byars added.
“The pre-school children are
the most susceptible to paraly
-1 tic polio. Last year a majority
! of the paralytic cases of polio
occuring in the United States
■ was in children under the age
of six years. The Health De
partment would like to see a
greater percentage of this
1 age group take the vaccine,” I
GEA Official
To Speak on Tax
Re-Evaluation
Newton County Teachers
will meet Tuesday, February
6, at 4 p.m. at the Newton
County High School auditori
um.
The guest speaker will be
William Hasty, a member of
the Georgia Education Associ
ation. He will speak on “Tax
Reevaluation”.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend this meeting.
Record Gift
For Missions
A record check for $515,285.-
45 as one month’s contributions
to missions educational and
benevolent causes from the
Georgia Baptist Convention, has
been forwarded to the Southern
Baptist Convention’s office in
Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Searcy S.
Garrison, Atlanta, Georgia Con
vention executive secretary
treasurer, announced today.
The more than half-million
dollar check is the largest sin
gle month’s contribution ever
made by Georgia Baptists to
world missions and benevolent
causes, Garrison announced. It
13 believed to be the largest
such check ever sent from any
church group in Georgia for
mission causes for a compara
ble period.
MacGregor Golf Balls
Presented To Governor,
Members General Assembly
MacGregor's DX - Tourney
golf balls, made right here in
Covington, were given to Gov
ernor Vandiver and members
of the Georgia General Assem
bly Wednesday at a joint house
and senate ceremony at the
State Capitol in Atlanta. The
miniature ball, mounted on a
large golf tee, has the Seal of
Georgia branded on each ball.
Ed Ricker, Administrative
Service Manager o<f the Mac-
Gregor plant in Covington, said
yesterday that the gesture in
Atlanta was “to show our ap
preciation for the fine cooper
ation the State of Georgia has
extended to our Corporation in
The Annual Area Council
Banquet Held Here Tues.
George B. Hutchinson of Covington was one of 15 Scouterj
to receive the coveted “Silver Beaver Award” Tuesday night
at the 46th Annual Banquet of the Atlanta Area Council
Boy Scouts of America held at the new dining hall in Camp
Emerson of the Bert Adams Scout Reservation.
Mrs. Sai a Hutchinsoi award-I
ed the Silver Beaver sash to!
her husband in an impressive
ceremony conducted by Lewis
F. Gordon, Sr., and several!
members of the Order of the j
Arrow who were di es ~ d in In
dian costumes.
Mr. Hutchinson has worked
with the Boy Scouts for 24
years. For six years he served •
as a Scoutmaster and for one |
year he was assistant camp di- j
rector of Camp Thunder in the I
Flint River Council. During the i
past five years he has served i
as advancement chairman fori
the Newton - Rockdale Dis
trict and he is presently serv
ing on the Atlanta Area Coun
cil Advisory Committee. In
1955 and 1956, Mr. Hutchinson
served as district chairman of
the Newton - Rtxkdale Dis
trict.
The Newton County Jaycees
selected Mr. Hutchinson as the
“Outstanding Young Man of
the Year” in 1954. For the past
eight years he has served as
Sunday School Superintendent
at the First Methodist Church
of Covington.
Mr. Hutchinson Is principal
of E. L. Ficquett Elementary
School in Covington and is past
president of the Newton Coun
ty Education Association hav
ing held the post for two years
in 1951 and 1952.
Georgie Hutchinson Is pre
sently serving as president of
the Covington Kiwanis Club.
During the past 10 years he has j
been chairman of Underprivi
lege Children Work in Kiwan
is.
Speaker for the occasion was
Joseph A. Brunton. Jr., Chief
Scout Executive of the Na-1
tional Council Boy Scouts of'
America. In his short but in- i
spiring talk he challenged the
Scouters of the Atlanta Area
Council to strive to even great
er heights of “bringing Scout
ing to the Boys.”
Chief Brunton praised th*
council for the completion of
the new Bert Adams Boy
Scout Reservation and called
it “one of the greatest Boy
Scout camping facilities in the
United States.”
E. K. Jamison of Atlanta,
vice-president of the Atlanta
Area Council in 1961, was in
stalled as council president for
1962 by John C. Staton, mem
ber of the Council Advisory
Committee Vice - presidents
for the new year are: Lamar
locating two of its new plants
here in Georgia, with more
possibly to come.”
The plant in Covington now
manufactures golf balls, in
flated balls such as basketballs,
footballs, volleyballs and soc
eerballs, which will be de
livered around the globe. Mac-
Gregor’s new plant is located
at Albany, Georgia, and will
begin operations in the manu
facture of golf clubs by the
first of April. Mr. Ricker
stated.
Already present divisions or
subsidiaries of Brunswick Cor
poration in Georgia include
Cutter Boat Works in Nash-
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JOSEPH A. BRUNTON, JR.
Chief Scout Executive
Swift, . Thomas D. Hughes,
Rankin M. Smith, and Jack J,
McDonough Jr. Other coun
. cil officials are: Moe Goldman,
treasurer; W. C. Carson, assis
tant treasurer; and Harmon M.
Born, commissioner.
E. G. Lassiter, Jr., chairman
of the Newton - Rockdale Dis
trict, and S. J. Morcock will
serve on the 1962 Board of
Council Officials. Local mem
bers of the Council Advisory
Committee are: George B. Hut
chinson, Frank Meadors, C. D.
Ramsey, Jr., Homer Sharp, M.
B. Shaw, and B. B. Snow.
Pilot Club Sets
Monthly Meeting
The Pilot Club of Covington
will have the regular monthly
meeting Thursday, tonight, at
the Board of Education Build
ing.
Executive board will meet at
7:15 p.m. and the business
meeting at 8 p.m.
All members are urged te
attend.
ville, Bowling Division offices
in Atlanta, and H. S. Aloe Di
vision offices in Chamblee.
Presentation of the stamped
MacGregor golf ball in Atlan
ta yesterday was made by S.
P. Jacobson, Corporate Vice-
President of Brunswick Cor
poration.
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