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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
Armed Forces Open
Houses Focus on
'Power for Peace'
America's “Power for Peace policy to
keep the cold war cold is working. Its
success in the face of aggressive and con
tinuing Soviet challenges — in Berlin, Viet
Nam, Formosa, the Congo, Lebanon, to
name several — emphasizes the fact that
military strength is a vital and important
necessity and the only sure way to keep
Mr. K. and the Communists contained.
This week, Armed Forces Open House
programs and parades are being held
throughout the nation. They honor the
men and women of all our services: Army,
Navy, Air Force. Coast Guard, Marines,
Civil Air Patrol, Civil Defense, the Reserves
and the National Guard.
One of the nation's largest and most
interesting Armed Forces Day events is
on Saturday, May 19, at Marietta. Dobbins
Air Force Base, the Naval Air Station and
the Lockheed-Georgia Company are join
ing in an open house and air show which
combines the efforts of all services located
at the hub of the southeast.
Army sentry dogs, Air Force super
sonic jets, a Navy radar “Warning Star,”
Marine attack planes, airlift Hercules prop
jets, the sleek new Jet Star, a giant mock
up of the new C-141 Star Lifter of the fu
ture, drill teams, military bands, a USD
show, a fallout shelter — all thrse and
scores of other demonstrations, displays
and action exhibits — will be combined
to thake this a most dramatic way to see
your nation's “Power for Peace” in the
southeast.
The entrance to the open house-airshow
will be at Headhouse Four at Lockheed,
nn State Route 280. Free Parking for 7,000
cars is available. Time: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
As a citizen and a taxpayer, you’re cor
dially invited to see the “Power for Peace’’
your defense dollars are giving the nation.
Rep. James C. Davis
Raps Administration's
Trade Expansion Act
There are indications from the halls of
Congress that the Administration’s Trade
Expansion Act of 1962, may, if enacted,
provide us with even more of a toboggan
ride than its severest critics had surmised.
Congressman want to know just what
is in that Task Force Report on Foreign
Economic Policy, which was leaked to
the press and reported to provide the basis
of the present bill. This report, ordered by
Mr. Kennedy when he was President-Elect,
was prepared by a committee under the
chairmanship of George W. Ball, then a
member of a law firm serving a number
of large European interests and presently
Under Secretary of State. Mr. Ball has re
peatedly declined to supply members of
Congress with the report on the ground
that it was prepared for the President’s
“private advice.”
Newspaper stories on the Task Force
report, read into the Congressional Record
by Rep. O C. Fisher of Texas described it
as recommending “A complete alteration of
United States policy on trade with the
Soviet bloc countries,” and “a new policy
that . . . would invite the Soviet Union to
join in a ‘code of fair practices’ for inter
national trade.”
Rep. James C. Davis of Georgia told
the House that “the proposal relating to
the (European) Common Market is probably
the most drastic of all,” in that it would
not only eliminate import duties to the
injury of American products but “could
produce far-reaching consequences, such
as unrestricted immigration after a few
years.” US alignment with the Common
Market, whose basic agreement provides
for “free movement of workers from coun
try to country and a common social se
curity” could extend this to us.
Mr. Davis described the present tariff
proposal as “the thin edge of the blade
to make an opening” . . . “What we face,”
he said, “is a proposal that in 10 years time
would down-level the US in order to meet
Europe on her way up. The next step would
be more down-levelling to meet the under
developed countries on the way up.”
The Congressman noted that the bill
scuttles the peril point provision and es
cape clause of the Reciprocal Trade Agree
ments Act, substituting adjustment assist
ance that “would drive both industry and
labor that are overcome by low-wage im
port competition into the arms of Govern
ment.”
Proponents of the bill he characterized
is one-worlders “peddling sleeping pills.”
Perhaps we should send our own Con
bgressman a good big package of benzed
rine.
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How to Debunk Red
Propaganda; Just Look
For The Facts
With all of the “second-best” comments
being passed out about America and our
economic way of life, it’s refreshing to
see our friend Carroll Parcher’s formula for
equalizing the differences between Soviet
Russia and our country.
Mr. Parcher, who is editor and pub
lisher of the Glendale News-Press of Glen
dale, Calif., puts it this way: If we want
to bring ourselves down to the level of
Soviet Russia we would have to abandon
three-fifths of our steel production and
two-thirds of our petroleum industry; tear
down seven of every 10 American homes,
use only one tenth of our presently pro
duced natural gas, rip up 14 of every 15
miles of highway and destroy 95% of our
electric output.
We would have to scrap two out of every
three miles of main-line railroad track,
scuttle eight of every nine ocean-going
ships, ground all but a fraction of our
civilian air fleet, scrap 19 of every 20 cars
and trucks, junk nine of every 10 tele
phones and do away with 40 million T. V.
sets.
If we wanted to match the Russians we
would have to give up all rights and priv
ileges granted in the Bill of Rights-Free
dom of Worship, of the Press, of Petition
and Assembly.
To match Russia in military might we
would have to get rid of all our heavy
bombers, most medium bombers, all Pol
aris submarines, all aircroft carriers and
all our overseas bases.
"Straight Talk"
Following are a few bull’s-eye shots
by Tom Anderson, publisher of the Mis
sissippi Farmer:
“The good old days: Back when the
only thing your wife owed was a cup of
sugar, to the next door neighbor.
“Parity: A government program to make
every farmer as poor as his neighbor; re
turn to serfdom with the government as
the master.
“Capital punishment; The government
taxes you to get capital to go into com
petition with you and then taxes the prof
its on your business in order to pay the
losses on . . . government businesses.
“Dictionary: The only place where
success comes ahead of work.
“Perpetual: Duration of any government
handout program, once begun.
“Mother hen: A symbol of the federal
government — formerly known as the
eagle.”
Is Ham, Ham —
Whether Moist or Dry?
“Ham is ham, a U. S. Court of Appeals
ruled . . . and Agriculture Secretary Orville
Freeman lacks authority to call it by any
other name,” comments Barron’s magazine.
The ruling has a significance far beyond
the specific legal point at issue.
The substance of the story is this. Old
fashioned dry hams have been running into
a diminishing market. More and more con
sumers look for the newer-type moist hams.
Naturally enough the packers, whose exist
ence depends on satisfactorily meeting con
sumer wants, are eager to oblige. So they
adopted a process which, by adding up
to 10 per cent to the moisture content of
a ham, makes the meat juicier and more
tender. The dry hams are still produced.
The Secretary, however, issued an order
by which the packers would have to label
the moist hams as “imitation hams.” A
leading packer went to court, claiming “ir
reparable damage ” The Court of Appeals
has now branded the Secretary's order as
“capricious and arbitrary,” and observed
that it would force packers “into violating
the statute which forbids misbranding.”
Barron’s concluded that the Secretary’s
attempt “... to substitute bureaucratic
fiat for the law of the land should serve
as a warning to Congress against further
extension of the Department of Agricul
ture’s rule-making powers. The Court’s
order should also remind . . . that the Con
stitution of the U. S. still stipulates a Gov
ernment of law, not of men.” This stipula
tion distinguishes a free, representative
government from a dictatorship.
Oil companies generally are intensifying
I their efforts to stimulate demand for pe
troleum products, and especially gasoline.
It is reported that the use of one additional
tankful of gasoline by each automobile
owner during the year would more than
wipe out the excessive gasoline inventories
overhanging the market.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
The week of May 20-2« has been officially designated aa
the uecond annual Highway Week in Georgia.
The proclamations of both President Kennedy and Gov
ernor Vandiver emphasized the dependence of every citizen
upon hi« highway aygtem, a life-long dependence that is too
often overlooked.
Today, as every day, thousands of children traveled over
portions of Georgia’s 16,000-mile State Highway System, tens
of thousands of wage-earners commuted varying distances to
their jobs, and other thousands sought their livelihood directly
from some highway-related business or industry.
Somewhere a new citizen had his first contact with our
highway system as he traveled home in the arms of his proud
parents. Everywhere, housewives shopped for the daily needs
of their families, the partnership of highway and automobile
giving them access to many widely-scattered markets.
Merchants draw patronage from ever-expanding trade
areas as more and better highways bring more and more
families eloser to their counters.
In mountains and coastal plains other Georgians and
visitors from far-away places find a brief release from the
eares of life, seeing more of this country in a few days than
their grandparents could see in a lifetime.
And, the roads providing these many services eost their
users an average of some 17 cents per day, or 12 cents out
of each motoring dollar. They pay for the use of their high
ways in direct proportion to the use which they make of
them.
In fact, many pay nothing directly, but still receive
benefits from highways in terms of lower shipping costs,
economical public transportation, doorstep delivery, and other
advantages and conveniences made possible by our highway
system.
The highway program is self-supporting to a greater
degree than perhaps any other function of government.
Actually, the revenues generated by our highways contribute
to other government service on both the state and national
level.
But there is another side to the coin.
Somewhere a Georgia motorist was jarred by a trouble
some and dangerous "pothole,” or fumed impatiently in a
time-consuming traffic jam.
Somewhere a Georgia motorist met death at a dangerous
grade crossing, or an obsolete bridge, or on a curve too sharp
for today’s fast cars.
This is the price we are paying for inadequate highway
facilities; a price which today’s accelerated highway program,
geared to tomorrow’s needs, is striving to reduce through
the creation of a more adequate system.
This campaign for better roads cannot afford- to falter
or “mark time.” It cannot afford the false economy of
reductions in road building allocations through diversion of
road-user revenues.
We pay for better highways whether we build them or
not. and the choice is simply a matter of our money or our
lives.
The problems confronting your Highway Department are
similar in one respect to many of the problems confronting
the average Georgia family. Their solution is simply a mat
ter of adequate financial resources. The Highway Depart
r:ent pledges to you that it will do all within the limits of
its resources and abilities to achieve an adequate highway
network. May we ask your understanding, your patience,
and your support in pursuance of this goal.
SOUR WEEKLY (OtESSON FOR
UNDAY SCHOOL
The Day of the Lord
Bible Material: Psalms 138; 2
Peter 3; Jude.
Devotional Reading: 1 Peter
1:3-9. Memory Selection: I
know whom I have believed
and I am sure that he is able
to guard until that Day what
has been entrusted to me. 2
Timothy 1:12.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Victory Ahead!
Young People - Adult Topic:
The Coming Day of the Lord.
Today’s lesson deals with our
Lord’s Second Coming and the
state of the world and the uni
verse both before and after that
event.
The return of the Lord is
definitely promised in the New
Testament. As the disciples and
others watched Jesus ascending
into heaven after the resurrec
tion “two men stood by them in
white apparel: which also said.
Ye men of Galilee, why stand
ye gazing up into heaven? this
same Jesus which is taken up
into heaven shall come in like
manner as ye have seen him
Igo into heaven."
Paul was filled with the con
viction that Jesus would return
to earth very soon. The whole
situation was further compli
cated by a statement of Jesus’s
that the generation in which he
lived would not pass away until
the approaching judgment day
had taken place (Matt. 13:30;
Luke 21:32). To be sure, t h e
destruction of Jerusalem took
place and this may have been
—at least partly — the catas
trophe about which Jesus spoke.
But his statement was not fully
understood by his own genera
tion, nor is it fully understood
by us.
But we can be certain of the
continuous affirmation made
throughout the New Testament
that the present world order
will some day be destroyed and
Christ himself will return.
The Apostle Peter was dis
turbed over the fact that many
Christian believers were scof
fing at the possibility of judge
ment and the return of the
Lord. These people continued
“walking after their own
lusts.”
They were, therefore, believ
ers only in name. The church
has had too many of that vari
ety throughout the ages.
"Where is the promise of his
coming? ” they asked, “for sin
ce the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were
from the beginning of crea
tion.”
Therefore, they reasoned,
this message about judgement
YOU - AND
HIGHWAY WEEK
Jim L. Gillis, Sr.
Chairman, State Highway Board
and the return of the Lord is
mistaken. Most of those who
had known Jesus and support
ed him in his ministry had pass
ed away. Still the Lord did not
return. Still judgment had not
come down upon an unrepen
tant generation. It will not
come, reasoned the scoffers.
This is a mistake which be
comes more apparent with the
passing of time.
In thinking of the Second
Coming we must remember that
our constricted and imperfect
ideal of time is not to be com
pared with God’s full know
ledge of the nature of time.
Further, we are warned against
thrusting a schedule into the
hands of the Almighty and ask
ing Him to meet the dates there
indicated.
The type of moral life prac
ticed by these nominal Chris
tian believers was conducive to
skepticism. Since they doubted
the word of prophecy, they felt
themselves somewhat free of
any responsibility to conform
to the moral requirements of
the word of God.
God has respect for honest
doubt which constitutes a sta
tion, as it were, on the way to
a man’s comprehension of full
Christian truth. But God is dis
pleased with doubt which closes
the door and stops the ears. Al
so He is displeased with scof
fers.
These verses are not easy to
understand. The thought is not
expressed in anything remotely
resembling modern idiomatic
language. The verses describe
God's creation of the world
(“The earth standing out of the
water and in the water”), and
the Great Deluge whereby “the
world that then was being over
come with water, perished.”
This we know as Noah’s Flood.
It was definitely promised
that when the Flood subsided
“the water shall no more be
come a flood to destroy all
flesh” (see Genesis 9:8-17).
The announcement which came
through Peter and others was
that the next catastrophe would
involve destruction by fire
“against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.”
The teaching of the New-
Testament is. therefore, quite
plain and unequivocal regarding
the last judgment. Jesus Christ
will return. This time he will
pass judgment upon the earth
and the civilizations over which
he has had moral sway. Then
the present order will be des
troyed, this time by fire.
But the believing w’orld is
not to entertain the notion that
(Laraaat Coverage Any Weekly Tn The State)
Letters Io
The Editor
i The Covington News
! Covington, Ga.
Dear Mrs. Mallard,
I would like to express to
you our thanks for your co
operation and services rend
ered to me and the Pilot Club
during my term as Publicity
and Public Relations Commit
tee chairman.
Please feel free to call on us
at anytime that we might be
of service to you.
Sincerely,
Ann Woodward
• » » »
Covington, Ga.
May 2. 1962
Mrs. Belmont Dennis
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
I wish to take this oppor
tunity to thank you and the
staff of The Covington News
for the splendid publicity giv
en Poppy Anchor Dedication,
annual program of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary, Depart
ment of Georgia.
Your interest in this memor
ial service is sincerely appre
ciated.
Yours very truly,
Mrs. Ty C. Cason,
Chmn. Poppy Anchor
American Legion
Auxiliary
Dept, of Georgia.
Talmadge Seeks
To Aid Poultry
Industry Abroad
Georgia’s U. S. Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge is making every ef
fort to keep American agri
culturalists generally and poul
trymen in particular from be
ing hurt under proposed agree
ments between the U. S. and
I the European Common Market
* countries.
Latest evidence of his effort
is seen in a telegram which the
Senator sent the other day to
Undersecretary George W. Ball,
of the State Department. The
telegram read:
“In the last few days I have
received a flood of communi
cations from constituents who
are greatly alarmed over the
Common Market’s announce
ment of increasing tariffs July
I on agricultural products and
particularly poultry.
“Georgia is the largest in
dividual broiler producing state
and this increased duty if plac
ed into effect, will be disas
trous to our poultry industry.
“Understand that you are
considering a personal visit to
request the leaders of t h e
Common Market countries to
postpone this action. Respect
fully urge you to give every
consideration to making this
visit at the earliest possible
date.”
The proposed new system of
import fees would more than
double the present tariff on
poultry, it is said.
it can discern this time or that
it can persuade God to cause it
to happen in some particular
season As we have noted above,
time in God’s experience is un
doubtedly different from the
limited idea we have concern
ing the nature of time and its
duration. God appoints time and
seasons, not only the ones to
which we are annually accus
tomed, but seasons which have
about them a cosmic signifi
cance. He made the earth and
the universe of which it is a
part. He presides over its des
tiny. At a time locked up in the
know-ledge only of God Himself,
the present w-orld order will be
destroyed. Jesus had declared:
“But of that day and hour
knoweth no man, no not the an
gels of heaven but my father
only” (Matt 24: 36).
At the time of his earthly
ministry, Jesus himself did not
know the time w-hen this final
judgment would take place. The
so-called coming of the king
dom may appear long delayed
to us, but we read in verse 9
that, “The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise. . . but
is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish
but that all should come to re
pentance.”
Scoffers may scoff, among
these many scientific author
ities who will appeal to t h e
unchanging laws of nature. But
the testimony of scripture
stands firm. God summarily in
tervened in his judgment on
one occasion (the Flood) and
He can be expected to inter
vene again. His apparent delay
is due to his mercy. The day of
judgment will come. We are
being given ample time for re
pentance.
General Assembly Passes Bills
Affecting Hunting, Fishing
Six hills were passed by the 1962 Georgia General
Assembly which either changed or modified exist
ing hunting and fishing laws.
The bills, most of which have heen signed by
Gov. Ernest Vandiver, and their ramifications
are as follows:
House Bill 863 state? that it is illegal to use rough
fish baskets in any stream of the state with one
exception. Baskets may be used to take rough fish
in artificial impoundments and in the streams and
waters east of the center line (that is on the ocean
front) of the Seaboard Air Line Railway main line
tracks in Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, Mclntosh, Glynn
and Cameden counties.
The Game and Fish Commission will not issue
permits to persons who indicate on application
forms that they intend to use the baskets in
illegal waters.
A bill pertaining to minnow seines, House Bin
1125, extends the legal length of minnow seines from
10 to 20 feet making 8 20 foot minnow seine legal
House Bill 1142 is a confiscation law provid
ing that any type of vehicle, boat, animal and
firearm used in hunting deer at night will be
forfeited to the state and sold unless properly
redeemed for in this law.
Also, it outlaws hunting at night with lights, com
monly known as head lights, attached io the head
or otherwise attached to the body.
Another bill, Senate Bill 176, provides that a
cash bond, which is paid for the violation of
game, fish or boating laws as well as traffic
laws, can be accepted by a sheriff or other bond
ed person that can accept cash bonds by law up
on proper order of the judge that has jurisdic
tion.
House Resolution 673, a measure seeking Federal
aid to help control the beaver problem, advises ths
Federal Government that assistance is needed to
control beavers that are now extensively damaging
land. This bill has been sent to members of the
United States Congress.
The beaver has been removed from the pro
tected list by the State Game and Fish Com
mission, and it may trapped, removed or de
stroyed in any manner that a landowner sees
fit.
The last bill passed w’hich in this case will effect
fishing is House Bill 896. It states that is is a viola
tion of the law to fish on Sunday in Effingham Coun
ty.
The Killer No
One Talks About
By Thomas Harrold, M.D.
(Editor’s Note: This is one in
a series of articles by physi
cian board members of the
American Cancer Society’s
Georgia Division to alert our
readers to the best ways to
guard themselves and their
loved ones against death from
cancer.)
• * * •
The American Cancer So
ciety has launched a new edu
cational program aimed at
saving many thousands of lives
from a specific type of cancer.
The target is cancer of the
colon and rectum.
People seem to have a re
luctance to talk about colon and
rectal cancer. It's the same type
of reluctance that the Can
cer Society met when it began
its “crash” program against
uterine cancer some 25 years
ago. BUt people did start talk
ing about uterine cancer, and
they also started doing some
thing about it. The result has
been a 50 per cent decline in
the death rate from uterine
cancer since that program be
gan in 1936.
Now we must bring cancer
of the colon and rectum “out
in the open”, so to speak. This
type of cancer strikes about
70,000 Americans each year.
This year it will take the lives
of 39,000 men and women (20,-
000 women, 19,000 men). We
can’t afford not to talk about
cancer of the colon and rectum.
Almost seven out of every
10 cancers of the colon and rec
tum can be cured if it is detect
ed early and properly treated.
Every adult should go to his
or her doctor for a health
check-up including a complete
rectal examination at least once
a year. Many times the doctor
can detect cancer of the colon
and rectum, or conditions that
could lead to colon and rectal
cancer, before any outward
symptoms appear. The earlier
a cancer is detected, the bet
ter are the chances for curing
it.
One of the most important
known causative factors in can
cer of the colon and rectum is
the formation of small, grape
like tumors called polyps. The
doctor usually can detect these
by digital examination or by
the use of an instrument which
allows him to look at the lin- ,
ing of the lower colon and rec
tum. The polyps can then be J
removed quickly and easily, i j
thus eliminating the danger of I j
ThuYoday, May 17. 1961
CAME
AND
FISH
By FULTON LOVELL
cancer, even before the patient
has noticed any sign of anything
wrong. But to prevent cancer
in this way requires careful
regular examination of ap
parently well people by a
physician.
Some possible warning signs
of cancer of the colon and rec
tum are bleeding, persistent
constipation or diarrhea, grad
ually increasing anemia (defi
ciency in the red blood cells),
loss of weight, explosive or
painful bowel movement, and a
sense of discomfort or a feeling
of fullness in the rectum after
bowel movements. Often this
kind of cancer is confused with
hemorrhoids (piles) because
some of the symptoms are quite
similar. But it is most fool
hardy and dangerous to assume
that rectal bleeding is the re
sult of hemorrhoids. The in
telligent person will help to
protect himself from this type
of cancer by going to his doc
tor for a check-up immediately
if any symptom appears. The
symptom may not mean can
cer, but your doctor is the per
son to find out for sure.
No one knows where or when
cancer will strike: so everyone
should be on guard against it.
Seven out of every 10 cancer#
of the colon and rectum can
be cured if detected and pro
perly treated early.
The American Cancer Soci
ety has free literature on this
subject and a film “Life Story”
which should be seen by mem
bers of every organization that
meets regularly and by em
ployees in firms using the So
ciety’s Employee Education
program. Contact your County
Unit of the Society or write
American Cancer Society, 2025
Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta
9, Georgia.
The National Multiple Scle
rosis Society was founded in
1946 to combat a disease for
which cause and cure are still
unknown. It now numbers 165
chapters, branches and units,
currently finaces 61 research
projects nationally and inter
nationally, and operates a pro
gram of community patient
services, including 33 chapter
—supported MS clinics. It is
estimated that 500.000 Ameri
cans suffer from MS and its
related diseases.
The Anableps is a “four
eyed” fish living in Central
America. Its eyes are divided,
the lower section permitting
underwater vision and the
upper part serving to see ob
jects in the air. But without
eyelids to moisten the upper
part. Anableps must keep duck
ing its head. — Sports Afield.