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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
You Could Have Cancer
Now! Better Have
A Checkup Soon
April is the American Cancer Society’s
month to conduct its annual Education-
Funds Crusade throughout Georgia. We
will tell you what our Governor Ernest
Vandiver lias to say on the subject.
Governor Vandiver has urged all citizens
of Georgia “to heed the life-saving mes
sages of the American Cancer Society as
their best personal protection against can
cer death and to support the work of the
American Cancer Society, both in volun
tary time and financial contributions, in
proportion to the seriousness of the prob
lem and enormity of the need.”
The governor made the plea in an execu
tive department proclamation designating
April as ’‘Cancer Control Month.” During
April, the American Cancer Society will
conduct its annual Education-Funds Cru
sade throughout Georgia. The Governor
stated in his proclamation: “At the present
rate cancer will strike one person in every
four and will strike in two out of every
three homes, making it a threat to every
life In our state.
“This disaster-like disease killed *270.000
Americans last year, which is more than
the combined populations of Albany, Ath
ens, Brunswick. Gainesville, Griffin, La-
Grange, Newnan, Rome, Thomasville and
Valdosta, and last year it killed 4.367 Geor
gians, which is four times as many as died
in traffic accidents in our stale.
“One-half of all those cancer strikes can
be cured NOW if the disease is detected
and properly treated in the early stage.
“The only hope for the other one-half
cancer strikes is further advancements and
knowledge from research.
“The American Cancer Society strives
to warn people of the best ways to guard
their lives against needless cancer death
throughout the year with particular impact
during its annual Education-Funds Crusade
in April. Through the Education Funds
Crusade the Society asks for voluntary con
tributions to support its three-pronged at
tcck on cancer through research, public and
professional education, and services to needy
cancer patients.
“What we all do in the fight against can
cer NOW will speed the day when we may
read the headline for which the world
waits — “CANCER CONQUERED ”
Porter W Carswell, of Waynesboro, Pres
ident of the American Cancer Society's
Georgia Division, said he was gratified by
the governor's expressed interest in the
cancer problem. We hope that all Georgians
will heed the governor’s words and join
with us in the fight to bring the disease
cancer under control.
Your NEWS Editor has been named
Chairman of Publicity for this fund. The
month is half gone now. Yet we can do
much. No Chairman could be found for
Publicity, for it is a man sized job. and one
with grave responsibility. When we heard
this, and it was late in April, having gone
through over a year’s anxiety with my be
loved husband, stricken with Cancer, and
four months at Emory Hospital, never leav
ing him, until he died on Christmas morn
ing. We promised we would tackle the job.
We had lived with it, and seen not only
our loved one but the loved ones of our
hospital friends go with Cancer ... all be
cause it was not detected in time.
It is our prayer that every person getting
this paper will read what is sad of concer;
how it can be detected in its early stages,
where recovery is possible, and then Get a
Check-up, and give a Check that others
might be saved. Yes, even you, could have
cancer at this very moment. Do not delay
a check-up!
End Result of
Dictatorship
When government owns almost every
thing, bosses everything, and makes all the
decisions, what do the masses of plain
people get?
Answer: The short end of an ever-short
ening stick.
Take, for example, the new Cuban ra
tioning system recently announced by Fidel
Castro. Most Cubans will be allowed —
according to a Reuters dispatch from Hav
ana — three-quarters of a pound of meat
per month per person, half a pound of fish
for 15 days, six eggs a month, two ounces
of butter a month and, to make up for
iis incredible diet, larger quantities of
■' >e bulk foods, such as beans, rice and
w f Jtaloes.
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No Army, No Navy,
No Air Force —Is This
Aim of Washington
Our UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
has been quoted as saying that “we must
be prepared in the West for restraints on
self-interest which a world-wide system
of law and policing implies.”
With the appearance in print of De
partment of State Publication 7277, “Free
dom from War, the United States Program
for General and Complete Disarmament in
a Peaceful World,” we know what his
typically oblique words mean. They mean
that it is the considered policy of the Ex
ecutive Branch of our Government, express
ed in this plan already formally submitted
to the UN General Assembly, to disband
our armed forces and dismantle our de
fense system — weapons, rockets, planes,
ships and all — except for the portions
turned over to the UN “Peace Force” (most
recently employed, with our help, in the
rape of Katanga). It means that the Ad
ministration has already prepared and is
pushing for the surrender of our Consti
tution, our Bill of Rights, our national
traditions and our freedom. All these and
our troops and weapons, too, it proposes to
give over to a UN in which steadily in
creasing Soviet power foreshadows early,
and certainly ultimate, Communist con
trol.
This State Department program is so
fantastic that no American could be ex
pected to believe it without reading it for
himself. Obviously, there is no single docu
ment in the world of comparable import
ance to all Americans at this moment. But
it has not been easy to get. The Govern
ment Printing Office reports at this writ
ing that is is swamped with a backlog of
100,000 orders that will take weeks to fill.
(It could take long enough to make pro
test futile).
But you can get a photographically
faithful copy of the State Department’s
“grand design of surrender” quickly. Lyle
Munson, president of The Bookmailer, Inc.
(P. O. Box 101, New York 16, New York)
has rushed this nightmarish “Program” into
print so that it may be studied by his alert
fellow Americans without delay. “It must
be,” he says, “if our Republic is to sur
vive.”
Mr. Munson explains that he must have
25 cents for his reprints rather than the
15 cents asked by the Government Printing
Office because: “Unlike the Government,
we cannot use your tax dollars to print
it; nor can we mail it ‘free’ at public ex
pense.” And time is running out As Dr.
Robert Morris, president of The University
of Dallas, says in his foreword to the Book
mailer reprint:
“We seem to be forging our own chains.”
Easter Seals —
People Helping People
Someone once said that man’s highest
purpose on this earth is to help his fellow
man.
This is a deeply rooted belief of all
Americans. Today, we say the same thing
in the meaningful phrase “People Help
ing People.” the philosophy that is the heart
and life blood of the American way of
life and of its way of philanthropy.
This conviction and this interest of peo
ple in people has brought about the great
surge of progress in health and welfare
in this country in the past several decades-
Among the people we want most to help
are our crippled children and adults. They
are the people we help when we give to
Easter Seals.
Last year, if you gave to Easter Seals,
vou helped 2,365 crippled children and
handicapped adults.
But, to look at it from another point
of view’, aren't they also people helping
people? They give us an opportunity to
express the best that is in us. They open
our hearts and our minds to the warmth
of understanding and generosity. They give
us an opportunity to express our finest
impulses. Aren’t they people helping us
to be better people?
MOSTLY TAKE?
We just can’t get too enthused over
Khrushchev’s announced willingness to
cooperate with the US in joint adventures
in space. Perhaps it reminds us too strong
ly of a kid's willingness to cooperate on
another’s ice cream cone.
Disarmament, says K, will speed us
(jointly) to the moon. Venus and Mars —
but he won't cooperate to the extent of
permitting test-ban inspections.
He believes in give-and-take — when
we give and he takes.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
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Living in the Light
of the Cross
Bible Material: Luke 19:29-
38; Titus
Devotional Reading: 2 Timo
thy 2:1 - 13; Memory Selec
tion: I have been crucified with
Christ: it is no longer 1 who
live, but Christ who lives in me;
and the life I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son,
who loved me and gave himself
for me. Galatians 2:20.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
The Cross Calls Us.
Young People - Adult Topic:
The Cross Calls Us.
The lesson for this week is
taken from Paul’s Epistle to Ti
tus.
We know little about this
early Christian leader save that
Paul regarded him highly and
referred to him frequently in
his epistles. He was a Gentile,
possibly a native of Antioch,
and perhaps one of Paul’s own
converts. He was, of course,
much younger than Paul, who
speaks of Titus as “my true
child after a common faith”
(Titus 1:4).
The epistle which Paul writes
Titus indicates that Paul had
left this trusted helper to or
ganize the churches of Crete
which, because of the character
of the Cretans, posed many pro
blems in authority and morals.
In the passages of scripture
which constitute today’s lesson,
Paul dwells especially on t h e
significance of the cross of
Christ. He holds up the cross
as a heroic example. This man
Jesus did not need to die. Had
he compromised only a little he
might have lived his life
through without serious perse
cution. But ’ - defied the leaders
of his day so brought opposi
tion and death upon himself.
But to Paul, the death of
Christ was something more than
a martyr’s death. It was the
I death of the Son of God. The
resurrection which followed
this death cast a new light both
on the pattern of suffering in
general and on Christ’s suffer
ing in particular.
Thereafter Paul saw in th f
death of Christ a redeeming
event through which forgive
ness is effected and men and
women of faith are made new.
Paul declares that “the grace
of God. . . bringeth salvation.”
The grace of God means the
graciousness of God. With all
the Universe working in ac
cordance with God’s will, man,
God’s highest creation, defies
the divine will and proceeds on
a course of action contrary to
that laid down by God. This
act of disobedience is known as
the fall. It has involved the en
tire human race in disaster.
All of us, because we are hu
man beings, bring into the
world the disposition to sin and
come short of God’s glory.
Now the grace — or gracious
ness of God — consists in the
fact that God has provided a
means of escape for erring man
kind. He did not do this just by
declaring that man's disobedi
ence was past and would be for
gotten. He did it by sending his
only begotten Son in the flesh
to suffer and die because of
man's sin. and to rise trium
phant above it.
Jesus Christ denied himself.
The first lesson of his g r e a.t
denial is that if we are to be
true followers of his we also
must deny ourselves.
Paul declares to Titus that be
cause of Christ and his suf
fering on the cross, the duty of
self-denial rests on all men.
They are to deny themselves
“ungodliness and worldly
lusts,” living soberly, right
eously, and in a godly fashion
“in this present world.”
Christian faith carries with it
high hopes for a future life fil
led with blessedness. The vis
ion of heaven sheds its bene
ficent rays across the dark
pathways of our lives. But
while we are in the flesh our
duty is to live with Christ-like
self-control in the flesh.
Every persdn reading this
passage of scripture must de
cide for himself what is in
volved in “denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts,” what it
means for him to live soberly,
righteously, and godly in this
present world.
Paul says that the end of the
whole earthly enterprise will be
the second coming of our Lord.
We are to await this with hope
and eagerness.
Christian believers tend
either to over-emhasize the
second coming of Christ and so
neglect present world duties,
or to under-emphasize the im
portance of this great teaching.
When this happens, their faith
loses much of its luster.
Paul speaks of Christians as
“a peculiar people, zealous of
good works.” The word here
translated “peculiar” does not
mean queer, odd, or eccentric.
The literal translation of the
Greek is “a people of God’s
own possessions,” or. “parti
cularly possessed by God.”
This is what we Christian
believers should be, and if we
are not, we are less than God
expects us to be and plans for
us.
“These things speak, and ex
hort. and rebuke with all au
thority. Let no man despise
thee.”
A good Christian is not a pas
sive person. He should not
make himself obnoxious by
forcing his faith upon others or
inquiring as to the condition of
their spiritual life.
But what every Christian
should do is so to live and speak
that both his words and h i s
life will bear testimony to his
faith.
He is to exhort. This means
to urge. Although his greatest
witness is a silent witness,
there rests upon every one of us
the necessity of speaking o u t
boldly in defense of our faith
and expressing our enthusiasm
for it when proper occasions
present themselves. We can
deny Christ by our silence as
effectively as Peter did with
his cursing and swearing on the
night of our Lord’s arrest. We
are not to be ashamed of o u r
faith. If there is any place a
word of rebuke would be in
order, we are not to hesitate to
utter it. And we are to feel that
with our testifying, order and
rebuke we do this with a cer
tain profound authority. We
are not to apologize for our
faith or for ourselves. Chris
tian believers have behind them
enough faith to enable them to
speak out boldly in behalf of
Christ and his enterprises.
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Newlon FFAers
To Enter
Field Day
The Newton County FFA
Chapter will participate in an
area Forestry Field Day pro
gram on Thursday, April 12, at
Monticello in preparation for
the third annual state-wide
Forestry Field Day competition
for the Future Farmers of
America.
Winner of the area contest
will meet with 14 other win
ners in the state competition in
May. The local area Field Day
is being sponsored by Georgia
Timber Lands Company and
Georgia Graft Company and
their foresters, W. R. Johnson
and James H. Colson, will co
ordinate the activities of the
event.
Fifteen FFA members of the
Newton County Chapter will
compete in the program under
the direction of their advisor
H. M. Pulliam. They are: Lynn
Jones, Thomas Mitcham, Fred
die Reynolds Johnnie Cowan,
Barry Doggett, Wayne Mal
colm, David King, Ronnie Hill,
Lynn Arnold, Ronnie Elliott,
Lanier Crawley, Wayne Ma
loney, Gary Mills. Harold Arm
istead and Harold Ayers.
Mansfield Bank
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$20,000 bond, police said. The
girl who drove the pick-up
truck in the incident was plac
ed under SIO,OOO bond, the FBI
said. Both were taken to At
lanta for arraignment by FBI
agents.
‘Names of accused persons
under 17 years of age are with
held in accordance with the
Georgia juvenile court law).
Mrs. Carson, who has work
ed as a teller at the bank for
about a year, was alone at the
bank when the attempted rob
bery occured.
Here is the story she told to
store owner Earnest Hays, Jr.,
whom she summoned for help:
Wood came into the bank and
placed a paper sack on the
counter of the window where
Mrs. Carson was working, tell
ing her, “Fill it up.”
Mrs. Carson asked, “W it h
what?”, and Grayson answered,
“Cash.”
At this point a Negro woman
entered the bank and went to
another window, asking to ex
change 200 pennies for two dol
lar bills. Mrs. Carson walked
to the window to help her.
When the transaction was com
pleted, Mrs. Carson simply fol
lowed the Negro woman out of
the bank.
Wood apparently surprised
at the unexpected turn of
events, made no move to stop
her. Mrs. Carson summoned
Hays, who accompanied her out
of his store just as Grayson at
tempted to flee in a pickup
truck driven by the girl.
Hays got into his car, picked
up Mansfield policeman Charlie
Henderson and gave chase,
catching the couple when the
truck stopped for a stop sign
about a mile out of town.
“Mrs. Carson was pretty
brave about it all.” Hays said.
“She was very calm at the
time.”
But he said, “She did gel a
little shook up after it was all
over. When we caught them
(Wood and the girl) we found
they had a .22-caliber pistol in
the glove compartment of the
truck.”
Hays said that when he and
Henderson left to chase the
fleeing couple, Mrs. Carson re
turned to the bank and stayed
open for business until normal
closing hours.
“She just left the paper sack
right where this fellow had
laid it. and when the FBI came,
she told them what happened,”
Hays said.
Kiwanis Club
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grooming and fitting the ani
mals for the show.” Club mem
bers will take their animals to
Atlanta Monday, April 16,
where they will be weighed and
checked in. Entries will be
judged on Tuesday and the ac
tual sale will take place Wed
nesday.
Four-H Club members from
Newton County who will ex
hibit their fat steers in the
show and sale, Mr. Hunt said,
are: Frank and George Lazen
by. the sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Lazenby, will show their
Hereford steers: Mac Gay, 111,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mac
Gay will show his Hereford
steer: Bob Richardson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Whitlow Rich
ardson will show a Hereford
steer; and Randy and Leslie
Fuller daughter and son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Fuller will show
tneir Hereford steers.
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Ty the Office Boy
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Camellias fade, until God’s own
season comes around for them
again. They have never been
lovelier, it seems, than this year.
Maybe it was because I could
go each day to the grave of
our loved one and place them
there. . . the ones he had seen
blossom last season. But as they
fade we walked in the garden
around seven o’clock this
morning and it reminded us of
the approaching Easter Season,
for the garden was filled with
snow white, and a few purple
lilies. . .we call Iris. . .so we
gathered them and took them
over and placed them on t h e
grave. Then we stood by the
new grave, near ours, of John
Jernigan. It was covered with
beautiful floral offerings from
loving friends, and he had
slept there just over night. The
little prayer I offered there for
the loved ones would have
been drowned out. had it been
said aloud, but the beautiful
song of all the birds. It’s a bea
utiful place in the early hours
of the morning, and God’s birds
do so much for us if we just
feed them, w’atch them, and
listen to their songs. God does
many things to heal the wounds
of life, if we just lose ourselves
in Him too.
The Covington News was
honored by that wonderful
group of young people from the
school known as the D. C. T.
Group. This is the third person
honored in the News Staff for
outstanding work with the
D. C. T. First was Belmont
Dennis, then Leo Mallard, and
now Mr. Arthur Henderson. We
appreciate the honors coming
our way, and it is a pleasure
to work with these young peo
ple. Their Banquet was held
at the Welaunee Hotel, and
you know they really enjoyed
that wonderful food out there.
Dr. James Mitchell and hi s
wife have been people we’ve
envied because they had so
many wonderful children. But
knowing what it means to give
them up in the home, we are
a little sad for them at this
time. Don’t think we are fool
ish. . . but Frances and Bob
are both getting married soon.
Their announcements are in
this weeks paper. . . they will
not only gain a lovely daugh
ter and son. . . but you can’t
possibly keep them with you
forever! No siree. . . and we all
know the vacancies left in our
home when they go out to
make their own homes. Silly
old Mothers and Dads (for they
all think we are old) rejoice
over their happiness (but let
me tell you we miss those
footsteps. . . nobody to say “put
on your sweater its cool this
morning”. . . nobody to tell to
drive carefully. . . or don’t stay
out too late. . . or just plain
lonesome we are for them. But
that’s the way life is planned.
Don’t forget that April 13-14
you are to see the Talent Re
view at Porterdale school Au
ditorium and the “Tiny Tot Pa
rade” . . . we can't miss that!
Yes, you know it’s sponsored by
that wonderful Porterdale Wo
man’s Club!
Be sure and read in this week’s
News a series of letters being
carried. One each week to in
form, warn, educate the public
on the importance of check-ups
for cancer. How it can be cur
ed IF you catch it in time. From
time to time each week we will
carry something of importance
regarding HOW you can avoid
having it. . . Or catching it
when it can be cured. Cancer
has become THE major fatal
disease most likely to strike
your family about which indi
vidual action can do the most
NOW. . TODAY. All types of
heart diseases kill more than
cancer, but the long, painful,
costly illness and untimely
deaths resulting from cancer to
day make it THE most serious
threat in EVERY home. Can
cer will strike one person in
every four and in two of every
three homes at the present rate.
One-half of those cancer strikes
today can be cured now if it is
detected and properly treated
in the early stage. One of every
three cancer patients is being
cured today if treated in time.
Will we be the ones to put off
that check-up with our phy
sician, just because it’s a little
lump here or there but not sore.
It never is sore in early stag
es.
Yes, my neighbor's lilacs are
blooming. Four lovely bushes
of them. . .two old fashioned
beauties and two French lilacs ‘
... the perfume of those lilacs, ,
Thursday, April 12, Utt
the banana shrubs and tea olive
make our block a “sweet ’ place
to live.
Won’t live long tho, if that
huge Lion’s Club Broom comes
any faster my way to remind
me it’s time to do the. ..
“SWEEPIN’ UP-”
Easier Sunrise
Service Set
For FFA Camp
A special Easter Sunrise Serv
ice will be a highlight of the an
[ nual Baptist Student Union Spring
Retreat, scheduled ,for the FFA
i FHA Camp at Covington, April
I 20-22.
’ More than 600 Baptist students
1 from Georgia’s 50 colleges and
’ universities are expected to at
tend the annual retreat and plan
’ ning conference, according to the
1 Rev. Aubrey L. Hawkins, Atlanta,
’ secretary of the Georgia Baptist
' Convention's Department of Stu
, dent Work.
> The retreat is designed to pro
। vide inspirational sessions for the
i students as well as to provide
i methods training sessions for new-
I ly-elected officers.
: Speakers include Dr. Tom La
gow, professor of history, Shorter
; college, Rome: Dr. George Jen
[ kins, a professor of English at
Tift college, Forsyth; Dr. Edwin
Johnston, professor of Christian
ity, Mercer university, Macon;
’ Dr. Allen Graves, Dean. School
। of Religious Education, Southern
. Baptist Theological Seminary,
. Louisville, Ky.; Mr. Maurice P.
; Willis, Jr., Secretary of the Ala
bama Baptist Convention Depart
s ment of Student Work, Montgom-
I ery, and William H. Jenkins, sec
■ retary of Student Work for the Vir
. ginia Baptist Convention, Rich
i mond.
>
John Jernigan Dies
Continued From Page 1
fisherman L. Edwards found
! the shattered plane in a swamp
i area alongside the Ocmulgee Ri
ver about midway between
Gray and Gordon, Ga. B o t h
i bodies were still in the craft,
■ officials stated.
' Covington Police, Civil De
fense officials from Newton
County and several friends of
Mr. Jernigan went to the
scene of the crash just as soon
as the message was received
here that a small red and while
plane had been found near
Gray.
The plane had apparently
nosed down in a small creek at
the edge of the river in a
heavily wooded area. It was
ripped and twisted and the
wreckage was scattered over a
large area, witnesses said.
Jernigan had taken an ac
tive part in civic activities,
youth work and all worthwhile
endeavors in Covington and
Newton County. He had been
secretary of the Newton Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce for
■the past 10 years, serving that
body faithfully for the de
cade. Only last year he w a »
president of the Newton Tip
off Club and was for many
years the attorney for t h a
Georgia Sheriffs Association,
whose main mercenary project
in recent years was the found
ing and opening of the Georgia
Sheriffs Boys Ranch in Hahira,
Ga.
During the 1961 baseball sea
son he managed the Covington
Braves team in the Newton
Little League. Two of his three
sons were members of teams in
the local Little League.
In the legal profession in
Newton County and the Slate
of Georgia, Mr. Jernigan was
respected as a most capable at
torney. He was the attorney for
Newton County for many years,
Mr. Jernigan was a member
of Golden Fleece Lodge No. 6,
Georgia Bar Association and
the First Methodist Church in
Covington.
Honorary escort at the ser
vice were attorneys of New
ton County. Active pallbearers
were: Otis Spillers, Howard
Milligan, A. E. Hays, Jr., B. C.
Crowell, LaPrade Vaughn, Bili
Vaughn, W. C. MeGahee. Ro
bert Yancey, and S. R. Camp
bell, Jr.
Caldwell and Cowan Funeral-
Home was in charge of ar
rangements.
Hat Party Set
Wed., 3-9 PM
A Hat Party, sponsored by
the American Legion Auxiliary,
will be held Wednesday. April
18, at the Legion Home from
4 - 8 p, m. and on Thursday
April 19, from 3-9 p. m.