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VOLUME 98
Newton Countians Observing Naticnal 4-H Week
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Club Now Worldwide
About 148,813 youths in Georgia will observe National
4-H Club Week, March 3 to 10. The young people are among
the 2.296.000 4-H'ers who belong to about 93,000 clubs in
urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the U. S. A
Rewarding
Experiences
By BRUCE BROWN
This week as we begin cele
brating National 4-H Club
Week, we find that Georgia has
the largest enrollment in the
nation, with a membership of
148,813 members.
4-H has taught me many
lessons, some of these are self
confidence, ability to work
hard for certain goals even
though competition is great, and
to accept the challenge to at
tain higher goals.
In the past two years I have
had the honor to represent
Newton County 4-H club at
both Wild Life and Forestry
Camp located near Dahlonega.
Here, I had the privilege of
meeting boys and girls from al
most every county in Georgia.
There, we were given instruc-é
tions on preservation of forest
and wild life, This experience
is one which I shall always
treasure.
Rewards are great in 4-H
work and hold a special mean
ing to us. We realize that the
elub could not exist without the
support of many donors, lead
ers and advisors. To these we
wish to express our sincere
gratitude for their interest and
support.
I feel that our motto “To
make the best betier” is one
that we shall never out grow
regardless of the occupation we
choose, or how old we may be.
4-H Camp Counselors
Fifty - six college students
were given a work scholarship
in exchange for their help at
Rock Eagle 4-H Club Center.
All of the counselors were for
mer 4-H Club members. Prior
to the opening of camp, t h e
counselors were given two
weekends and a week of in
tensified training by subject
matter specialists and program
directors, reports Dr. Tommy
Walton, state 4-H Club leader.
Sheep shearing schools were
held for the seventh straight
year for 4-H Club members.
The aim of the schools is to
give club members skill a n d
knowledge as to the proper time
and method of shearing sheep.
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NEWTON COUNTY'S 4-H AWARDS Banquet is an annual
highlight of the year for 4-H'ers and adult leaders. Shown
in the picture above at the 1962 banquet are, left to right:
Mrs. Hazel Malone, District Home Demonstration Agent and
former HD Agent in Newton Couniy: Bruce Brown, who
gave the past president’s repert: Dr. Tommy Walton, State
4-H Leader whe was main speaker for the eecasien: Carel
Witcheoclk Comncii Pramidamt amd oastwistrciy and Ed Hunt,
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The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
Georgia has an enrollment of
148,813, Newton Co. has 1,241
members. Among the special
4-H Week activities planned
for Newton are: 4-H displays,
4-H Sunday Programs and a
program for Kiwanis Clubs.
Prcf. G. C. Adams of Newton
County originated the 4-H with
his “Corn Club.”
The Week has a number of
local and national aims—among
them: To give members a
chance to measure progress and
set new goals, influence more
youth to join or form 4-H
Clubs, acquaint more parents
with the organization and enlist
their aid; encourage more per
sons to volunteer as local lead
ers, stress learning to live and
serve cooperatively with others,
and recognized the major part
played by Friends of 4-H.
The Week will be highlighted
in Washington, D. C. by a team
of 4-H’ers, representing mem
bers everywhere, who will give
the annual “4-H Report to the
Nation.” The report will review
in story and pictures outstand
ing 4-H achievements and cur
rent projects, While in the Na
tion’s Capital the reporter -
delegates will visit the White
House, meet members of Con
gress, high Government offi
cials, and other national lead
ers. After a short stay in Wash
ington, they expect to go else
where for a few days to meet
with other friends of 4-H.
Sharing honors with Club
members in all States will be
nearly 310,700 men and women
who serve as unpaid volunteer
leaders, and guide 4-H work in
local communities throughout
the 50 States and Puerto Rico.
The Senior Council 4-H of
ficers in Newton County are:
Carol Hitchcock, president;
Tommy Brown, boys vice-presi
dent; Arlene Hargrove, girls
vice-president; Betty Kent, sec
retary - treasurer; Joey Hac
kett, reporter; and Bruce
Brown, parliamentarian.
Officers of the 4-H Junior
Council in Newton County are:
Wayne Robertson, president;
Arthur Hargrove, boys vice -
president: Suzan Elliott, girls
vice-president; Virginia Tho-~
mas, secretary - treasurer; Rob
bie Ann Fincher, reporter; Al
vin Whisnante, parliamentar
ian,
4-H CLUB OFFICERS
FOR 1962
The boys and girls who are
members of the 4-H Club se
lected one of the best groups of
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THREE MEMBERS OF PROF. G. C. Adams’ Original Corn
Club, forerunner of the present-day 4-H Club, are shown
above at the 1962 Newton County 4-H Awards Banquet held
in Covington. From left to right: Tom Greer, Henry Adams
and Grady Adams. A fourth member of the club, Joe Laseter,
was absent due to illness. Prof. Adams’ club was organized
here in 1905.
:’club officers ever selected in
| the Newton County 4-H Clubs.
| Leadership is one of the keys to
| the success of any organization.
| The officers from the vari
ous clubs selected a Juaior and
| Senior Council this 4-H Club
| year. The Senior boys and girls
| give the overall Jeadership for
| council meetings and the Jun
ior Council is primarily re
| sponsible for the program at
| each meeting.
The officers of the various
clubs are: E. L. Ficquett
| School: President, Kathy But
|ler; V. President, Jimmy Mec
| Cord; Girls’ Vice Pres., Helen
| Parker; Sec. and Treas., Aaron
Varner; Reporter, Tammy
Burts; Parliamentarian, Joe
Parker.
Heard Mixon School: Presi
dent, Dale Jones; Boys Vice
Pres., Pete Campbell; Girls
| Vice Pres., Kay McAl'lister;‘
Treasurer, Robbie A. Fincher;
Reporter, Ronnie Aiken; Parli-'
amentarian, Billy Parish.
Livingston School: President
Linda Standard; Boys Vice
Pres., David Johnson; Girls
Vice Pres., Virginia Thomas;
Secretary, Linda Allen; Repor
ter, Arthur Hargrove; Parlia
mentarian, Sidney Goss.
Mansfield School: President
Rissa Spears; Boys Vice Pres.,
Alvin Whisnante; Girls Vice
Pres., Nona Spears; Reporter,
Freddie Christian; Sec. Treas.,
Suzan Elliott; Parliamentarian,
Jody Webb.
Newton High School: Presi-
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Project
By FRANK LAZENBY
The past seven years in 4-H
Club Work have been very en
joyable for me. My main pro- |
| ject has been that of raisingl
| beef steers. |
Each year for these seven |
years I have entered one or
two steers in the Georgia Live
stock Exposition held at the|
Southeastern Fairgrounds in |
Atlanta during April. This is
a real experience for a club
member. I have entered my
calves in the Newton County
Fair too. .
It is hard to realize how |
much can be learned from al
lproject such as the Steer Pro-l
ject. It is enjoyable and for me |
has proved profitable from a
financial standpoint. I have
Ibeen saving the money that I|
| have made for college educa
tion.
| I would recommend this pro
{ ject to any 4-H Club member
| who has a place that he can
| care for the calf. It affords an
| opportunity for a good {ime
|and is very edweational.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, TH
My 4-H Club
Experiences
By MAC GAY 11
During the past eleven
months I've spent with my
Hereford Streer, I've had many
experiences, good and bad.
The bad ones are the ones
that come with anything that
require a lot of hard work and
is worth while doing.
About the best time I’ve had
was when I showed my calf
“T-Bone” at the Newton Coun
ty Fair. That was October sth
of last year. I came in 4th
place and was a little disap
3pointed. The show taught me
a lot in the care of Beef ani
mals.
One of those bad moments
came a week or two ago when
my calf got out. He got on the
railroad track that runs by our
house. He almost got hit by the
train.
This project has taught me
a lot. It gave me patience and
the will to stick with things
and it taught me how to take
care of livestock.
Colored 4-H
Membership
Four-H club work continues
to move forward among the
colored population in Newton
County. The objective of the
organization in the county is to
help develope boys and girls to
become better citizens through
project participation.
At present we have twenty
nine 4-H clubs with an enroll
ment of 773 members which in
cludes 355 boys and 418 girls.
A majority of members are
engaged in such projects as
field crops, livestock, natural
resources, craft, machinery,
clothing, food and nutrition,
home improvement, health and
family life.
Newton County 4-H mem
bers take an active part in the
District and State Councils;
summer encampments and State
Congress for project achieve
ment. During the 1961 club
year, six 4-H members w o n
first place awards on project
achievement in the State.
State and district 4-H Club
events are held each year to
give 4-H Club members a
chance to demonstrate their ac
complishments and recewe
recognitiom for jobs well done.
RSDAY, MARCH 8,1962
Georgia 4-H Clubs Have
Enrollment of 149,000
Georgia's largest youth or
ganization, the 4-H Club, be
gan in 1905 with the organiza
tion of a Boys' Corn Club by
Prof. G. C. Adams. There were
151 members of this first club.
Over its 57 year history, the
4-H Club has grown from this
small beginning to an enroll
ment of 148,813 boys and giris
in 1961.
Today, the work of these
youths is supervised by the
state 4-H Club office at the
University of Georgia Cooper
ative Extension Service in Ath
ens. The staff is headed by Dr.
Tommy L. Walton, state 4-H
Club leader.
Under direction and guid
ance of 453 county and home
demonstration agents, mem
bers ccmpleted 400.684 pro
jects in 1961. This is an average
of 2.7 projects per member,
The tremendous job of guid
ing and assisting 4-H'ers in this
work is too big to be handled
by the state staff and agents
alone. Much of the work with
the 2,891 local clubs is done
by 14,138 local leaders, who
are trained, volunteer workers.
Because 4-H work could not
possibly be carried on in the
scale that it is in Georgia with
out the invaluable assistance
of these volunteer leaders, new
emphasis is being placed on
training for them, Dr. Walton
says. The state 4-H staff con
ducts seven - week training
schools for them in the various
counties.
Another valuable source of
leadership is older members.
these boys and girls, many of
them college students, give
their younger counterparts
benefit of their experience and
training by working on the lo
cal level and as counselors in
4-H camps.
These counselors are selected
Pine Grove Church
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Honors 4-H'ers 1
Pine Grove Presbylerian
Church observed National 4-H
Week by having a 4-H Sunday
program at Sunday School
March 4. The program for the
morning was as follows: Song
leader, Ronnie Elliott; Pledge
to American Flag, led by Ken
neth Hodges; Poem, “Country
Church” by Alvin Whisnante;
Scripture by Carole Hitchcock
with responsive reading by all
club members; Prayer by San
dra Hodges; Lesson taught by
Carole Hitchcock; Offetory,
Kathy Hitchcock; Prayer by
Jan Hitcheock; Song by all
club members and Benediction
led by Ronnie Elliott, ‘
The program was made up‘
of 4-H Club members and as
sisted by Mrs. Lewis Whisnante ‘
and Mrs. Elmer Hitchcock, 4-H
leaders. |
What | Like ‘
About My Project
| By RONNIE AIKEN
l When I joined the 4-H Club
two years ago I had the deci
sion of selecting my project. It
| seemed only natural for me to
'select dairying since I live on
a dairy farm. My first year of
|4-H Club Work I started in
{June, so in order to show a
|calf at the county fair I had
{to get busy selecting my club
'cal.’.
| Instead of this project be
{ing work it seemed like play
| to me to feed, play and groom
the calves. Os course, there are
times when play has to siop
and work has to begin, especi
ally when the calf wants to eat
10!” just -be stubborn and not
| want to learn to walk right or
| stand right.
'5 Records have to be kept, 50 |
{at the end of the year I will |
| know just how much my calf is |
J worth. ,
| The thing I like most abouti
| my project is getting to select |
a calf and calling it my own.
Georgia 4-H members won
seven national and one sectional
honor at National 4-H Con
gress, Chicago, Illinois, in No-|
vember, 1961, i
for their camp counselor and
instructor jobs through a thor
ough examination and selec
tion system, and then receive
training in the particular job
they will have by members of
the 4-H Club staff and Exten
sion Service specialists. They
are given college scholarships
for their service.
Project work is the heart of
the 4-H Club program. Each
club may select a winner in
each area of project work, and
these winners then enter coun
ty eliminations. County wins
ners in each project give their
demonstrations at district pro
ject achievement meeting, and
the winners there go to State
4-H Club Congress in Atlanta.
Last year 32 state winners
were chosen through this pro
cess, and they made the trip
that is the dream of every 4-H
member, the one to National
4-H Club Congress in Chicago.
LH'er In "Orbit”
By ARLENE HARGROVE
Due to the recent achieve
ment of Col. John Glenn in or
biting the earth, many of us
today have been thinking of
space, especially the word ‘“or
bit”, Yet orbit need not pertain
to circling the globe in a space
craft, for last July I was in
“orbit” because of the privilege
I had in attending 4-'1 Forestry
Camp at Camp Wahsega near
iDahlonega.
~ This camp is situated in per
haps one of the most beautiful
sections of Georgia, for it is
‘nestled snugly up in the foot
hills of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains, This camp is unique in
that it is not only in a beauti
ful part of the eountry, but ful
ly is worthy of its setting by
providing picturesque cabins,
a mountain lake, a sparkling
mountain stream, water falls,
and 'a beautiful amphitheater
for many lovely programs out
doors. It would have been
thrilling just to spend a week
up there completely engrossed
in the overwhelming beauty
and coolness of the camp, pity
ing the poor souls back in the
sweltering heat wave which
seemed to have engulfed every
body else but us. However, I
was informed of and eagerly
awaited the time when I would
have various classes on forest
ry and wildlife four hours a
day for the week. I didn’t
think that I would like these
class very well, but due to the
comfortable weather and the
wonderful manner in which the
instructors taught, I was truly
unhappy when classes ended.
There were several things that
1 especially enjoyed. Once we
took a leisurely hike up a
mountain in a tree identifica
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| NEWTON COUNTY 4-H'ers will appear on WAGA-TV Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 a. m,
|Shown in the picture above are those who will participate on the program. Left to right,
seated: Ed Hunt, Newton County Agent: Mrs. Fred Greer, 4-H Leader; Mrs, Carol McGib
oney, Newton County HD Agent. Standing, left to right: Bobby Marks, Alvin Whisnante,
Arthur Hargrove (4-H Leader), Linda Standard, Robbie Ann Fincher and Kay McAllister,
|all 4-H'ers who will give demonstrations.
This Paper Is Covington’s
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
By WAYNE ROBERTSON
When I was 10 years old I
became interested in 4-H work.
During my first year of 4-H
club work I carried as my pro
jects swine, reading, leadership
and health, My main project
was swine and in this project
I had a pig.
The second year I partici
pated in club work my pro=-
jects were livestock, health,
leadership and gardening.
Gardening was my main pro=
ject and 1 had a garden of my
own,
My third year in 4-H Club
work I carried as my projects,
livestock, poultry, leadership,
health, and gardening. I at
tended Rock FEagle Project
Achievement Meeting in Live=
stock Conservation and enter
ed my calf in the Georgia
Livestock Exposition in At
lanta.
This year I am taking as my
project leadership and ento
mology.
tion class. Then there was the
time when a snake accidental
ly got loose in our insect and
reptile class. Another time we
had to wade across a stream if
we couldn’t properly identify
a certain tree that the instruc
tor pointed out. |
It was also announced dur
ing the course of our classes
that we should make an at
tempt to remember at least
some of the information taught
because at the end of the week
a test would be given. And to
make it more interesting, a 4-H
jacket would be presented to
the boy and girl making the
highest test scores. I was for
tunate to be the girl recipient
of a jacket which added to my
feeling of pride by havingi
brought honor to my county as
well as having learned a great
deal of very interesting infor
mation about forestry and
wildlife.
1 would certainly encourage
all 4-H'rs to take adantage of
the opportunities which the 4-H
program offers and get a
chance to “orbit” around in
new places, meet new people,
learn something, ar” have a
good time.
4-H Club Sets
Automotive Safety
At a recent meeting at
Newton County High School
4-H Club met with the presi
dent calling the meeting to or
der. The minutes were read
and approved. New business
consisted of camp and activity
dates.
Mr. Arthur Hargrove, one of
our adult leaders, asked for
suggestions for the rest of the
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ED BUTTLER
Mr. Ed Butler of Covington
was named as an Honorary 4-H
Club Member at a recent 4-H
Council meeting. He received
this award in recognition for
his interest in 4-H club work
throughout the State of Geor
gia,
He has given much of his
time during the past three
years traveling «s President of
the Georgia Corn Millers Asso=
ciation. During these travels
he has visited many sections of
Georgia and helped with the
4-H Club Corn Meal Muffin
Contest. Working through the
club members he has done
much for the Corn Meal Ene
richment Program.
Mr. Butler was one of the
participants in the recent News
ton County 4-H Club Adult
Leader Training Program. He
'was awarded a diploma for
successfully completing this
adult training course.
Congratulations to Mr. But«
ler for his Honorary Club
Member Award and his inter
est in the Newton County and
Georgia 4-H Club Program.
year’s program. The -club
members agreed on “Automos«
tive Safety’”, which they de
cided' would be a very worth~
while subject. The meeting was
then adjourned.
Joey Hackett,
Reporter
During the 1961 camping sea«
son, 10,673 4-H Club members
attended 4-H summer camps,
reports Dr. Tommy Walton,
State 4-H Club Leader.
Scholarships awarded to 4-H
Club members during 1961 teo
help club members furthep
their education totaled $24,
565.70.