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Ag Commissioner Says New
Bait May Eliminate Fire Ants
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Phil Campbell, today announc
ed the experimental use of a
new bait in the state’s fire
ant eradication program.
“We have great hope for this
new product,” Campbell said
in announcing the use of bait
instead of the previously used
insecticide. “In small area tests,
this bait had done a fine job
of eradicating fire ants and our
use of the material on some
100,000 acres in the Savannan
area will determine, to a great
extent, whether it is the tool
we need to improve our fire
ant eradication program.
Campbell said the new bait
is made by using a new toxi
cant known as Mirex, which is
mixed with soybean oil and im
pregnated in corncob grits. It
is extremely appealing to the
fire ant which will pick up the
material while foraging for
food.
“We are not only pleased
with results the bait has shown
in eradicating fire ants, but
we are equally pleased with
the safety of this material as
it concerns human health and
wildlife conservation,” Camp
bell emphasized. “Research here
in Georgia and elsewhere shows
that quail have no preference
for this material. Demonstra
tion tests have also proved its
safety where fish and other ma
rine life is concerned.
“Equally important,” Camp
bell said, “is the fact that this
new material leaves no residue
in food, feed or fiber crops or
animal products including milk
and meat.
Campbell said that in using
the new material, the actual
amount of toxicant that will be
used will total only 3.4 grams
per acre or about a teaspoon
full. He pointed out that the
use of the new bait does not
mean that insecticides will not
continue to be used in the fire
ant program but he emphasiz
ed that a newly organized Fed-
George Atkinson
To Give Lecture
Jehovah Witnesses
George A. Atkinson, travel
ing representative from New
York headquarters of The
Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society has arrived for a
week’s visit with the Coving
ton Congregation of Jehovah’s
Witnesses.
Mr. Atkinson has the spirit
ual oversight of sixteen con
gregations of Jehovah’s Wit
nesses in middle Georgia. He
has been an ordained minister
and a representative of the
Watchtower Society for twen
ty years. Mrs. Atkinson ac
companies her husband on his
weekly visits with various con
gregations.
The climax of Mr. Atkinson’s
visit will be the public lecture
to be given Sunday entitled,
“Is This The World's Last
Generation,” The talk will be
given at 508 Floyd St. at 3:15
p m. The Witnesses stated that
the public is cordially invited
and no collections will be
taken.
DCT Student Learns Radio Operation
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ROVIifE KITCHENS, a senior DCT student is shown re
cei-tng on-the-job instructions from Chief Wendell Kitchens
at the Police Department. Ronnie is training in communica
tions as a short-wave radio operator. His job is to stay in
contact with and relay messages to the Covington Police
and State Patrol, to report wrecks, crimes and burglaries,
dispatch policemen into areas of the city and county where
they are needed- Chief Kitchens states that Ronnie is doing
an exoellent job
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
eral Pest Control Review
Board, which includes represen
tatives of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Health, Education
and Welfare Department, In
terior Department, Defense De
partment, and the Department
of Agriculture, has just re
cently given unanimous ap
proval to the fire ant eradi
cation program as it is being
conducted in Georgia with the
use of insecticides as well as
the new bait material.
Four Newton
Road Projects
In Bid Letting
Slate Highway Board Chair
man Jim L. Gillis has an
nounced the complete listing
of projects comprising the
third bond increment of the
Vandiver Administration’s
$100,000,000 Highway Author
ity road improvement pro
gram.
This $35,000,000 increment
will finance improvements to
1,509 miles of Primary, and
1,272 miles of Secondary, high
ways in 130 Georgia counties.
The first third increment pro
jects were let to contract
on April S7 and the second
group of projects under this
increment will be let on May
31.
The Highway Authority pro
gram was initiated by the
1961 General Assembly, under
Administration sponsorship, for
the purpose of financing much
needed improvements to the
state’s most heavily-traveled
Primary and Secondary high
ways. Projects were selected
on the basis of a mile-by-mile
survey of Georgia’s highways
conducted by Highway Depart
ment engineers in 1960.
Tne first $30,000,000 incre
ment of the $100,000,000 High
way Authority program was
let to contract in July and
August of 1961, and the $35,-
000,000 second increment was
let in December, February and
March. Improvements under
the first two increments total
ed some 4,673 miles.
AU work under the High
way Authority program will
have been placed under con
struction contract, and the ma
jority of the projects com
pleted by the year’s end.
Area projects included in the
program are as follows:
Henry-Newton— 23.2 miles
of resurfacing on Georgia
Route 81 from the end of ex
isting concrete pavement one
block east of the Square in
McDonough to existing con
crete pavement in Porterdale.
Newton-Walton - Morgan —
10 miles of widening, leveling,
and resurfacing on U. S. 278
from Ga. 142 to one mile west
of Rutledge.
Newton-Rockdale —15 miles
of resurfacing on Georgia Route
212 from Ga. 81 in Snapping
Shoals to the Rockdale-De-
Kalb County line.
Newton - Rockdale — 7.37
miles of resurfacing on FAS
Route 922, beginning at Ga. 81
southwest of Porterdale and
extending to U. S. 278 in Rock
lale County.
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Green Thumb Garden Club Installs Officers
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GREEN THUMB GARDEN CLUB installation of officers was held Thursday at the
Buck and Kid Restaurant. Pictured left to right: Mrs. Tom Freeman, scrapbook chair
man: Mrs. Edgar Phillips, reporter: Mrs. Fred Harwell, assistant secretary: Mrs. Donald
Colquitt, recording secretary; Mrs. Blake Armstrong, first vice-president: Mrs. Luke Lass
iter, treasurer and 2nd vice-president: Mrs. Bill Vaughn, president; and Mrs. Pat Camp
bell, installing officer.
Washington St. Band Receives
Superior Rating at Festival
By Cynthia Mitchell
After having been formed in
November of 1960 the Washing
ton Street School Band under
the direction of Mr. Fred L.
Beam has received district and
state recognition as a Superior
Class B band in the schools of
Georgia. This has been accom
plished in only fifteen actual
school months despite lack of
uniforms insufficent instru
mentation, and lack of favor
able cooperation from some of
the members of the community.
Performing at the Annual
Festival of Music and Arts (by
invitation) at Clark College,
Atlanta, Georgia on April 25th,
the band presented a concert
consisting of seven selections.
From the head of the music de
partment, Dr. J. DeKoven Kil
lingsworth, and his associate,
Professor Wayman A. Carver,
the band received high praise.
The next day the band journey
ed to Toccoa, Georgia to par
ticipate in the district four
band festival, along with elev
en other bands. Performing
their favorite selection “Witch
Doctor”, by Bowles, and led
through the selection of “Trum
pets Oleo”, by the sometimes
scintillating, sometimes hum
orous, and always strong, trum
pets of Larry Hardeman, Wal
ter Bentley, and John Robert
Hammonds, the band received
a rating of Superior. Picked (by
the judges) as being outstand
ing were drummers Jimmy
Thomas, Leon Jefferson, and
Willie Freeman, and saxo
phonists Cornelius Lindsey and
David Norwood.
The following week, May 5,
1962, the band journeyed to Al
bany, Georgia to compete in the
State Band Festival, along with
forty of the top bands in Geor
gia. Performing the same se
lections as in the district fes
tival the band again received
a Superior rating. Following the
concert competition the band
participated in a short parade
in which they marched single
file through the streets of Al
bany playing W. C. Handy’s im
mortal ‘St. Louis Blues” in
march time. After this perfor
mance the judges commented
“Good Band”. The band also
received superior ratings in
discipline, appearance, and in
the conducting of Mr. Beam.
Members of the band are:
Clarinets; Mary Brewer, De
loris Bentley, Sandra Maddox,
Gwendolyn Benton, Ruby Ann
Lackey, Addie Ree Norwood,
Mae Pitts, Dianne Mitchell,
Charles Carter, Roger Good
man and Annie Pauline Mor
' ris.
I Trumpets: Larry Hardeman,
Walter Bentley, John Ham
i nonds, Leon Simms, Hollis Pitts,
Hutchinson Tuggle and Rogers
i Thomas. Baritone Horn: Ray
mond Hammonds. Bass Horn:
; Bobby Harris.
j Percussionists: Jimmy Tho
mas, Leon Jefferson, Willie
Freeman, G. W. Jefferson, Pa
| tricia Zackery, Gloria Cobb,
Walter Brown, Michael Gii
strap and Carolyn Wright.
Trombones — Larry Jack
; son, Alfred Cook, George R
I Jefferson.
The band will participate in
. the annual May Day' exercises
•at the J. P. Carr High School
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1962
(Conyers, Georgia) May 11. and
will present its annual spring
concert May 25, 1962 at 8 P.
M. The program will consist of
fourteen selections ranging from
overtures and classics to pop
tunes.
'Top Operators'
At Cov. Mfg. Co.
Top Operators at Covington
Manufacturing Company are:
Doris Hale, Collar Run; LaFa
ton Veal, Topstitch Collar; Ma
rie Alexander, Cuff Dept.; Jo
sephine Savage, Label Sew;
Lois Thomason, Pocket Crease;
Helen Meadows, Pocket Set;
Mary Parker, Collar Set; Susie
McCord, Close Lapel.
Mildred Walden, Stitch Down
AMA Says Government Has
Distorted Facts in Bill
By Leonard W. Larson, M.D.
President, American Medical
Association
The controversial King-
Anderson Bill is now
being advertised as a “family
plan” health care proposal—
everyone is supposed to bene
fit, the aged, the middle-aged
and the young. And all for a
dollar a month, so it is claim
ed.
The King - Anderson Bill
started out as a program to help
the aged pay hospital bills —
whether they needed financial
help or not made no difference,
and still doesn’t.
This bill proposes to increase
Social Security taxes by 17
per cent to finance a program
of hospital and nursing home
benefits for all the aged eligi
ble for retirement benefits un
der the Social Security pro
gram. No matter how wealthy
the recipient, the wage earners
and their employers still would
have to pick up the tab.
Now it is being semantically
Public Sees C-141 Mockup
At Lockheed on Moy 19
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For the fir*t time, the publie can get elo*e-up look* at the fall-air*
I. S. Air Forre C-141 Star Lifter mockup on exhibit Saturday, May 19,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the free Open House-Air Show at Ixvekheed-
Air Force Plant 6 in Marietta. (xmponvored by Dobbin* Air Force
Ba*e, the Naval Air Station and Lockheed-Georgia, the «peetacular
diaplay of Georgia and the *outhea*t‘< contribution* to the nation *
“power for peace” feature* more than 25 type* of »uper«onie and
•übaonie jet* in the air and on the ground, three military band*,
crack drill unite and a giant, jet aircraft plant in action. Free parking
for 7,000 car*. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine*, CoaM Guard, Civil
Defence, Civil Air Patrol and other defen e agencie* are taking part in
the air *bow-open bouae.
Collar; Marion Henderson,
Sleeve Set; Joyce Clegg, Fell
ing; Doris Hicks and Marie Mc-
Giboney, Cuff Set; Sara Stubbs,
Bottom Hem; Sara Mole, But
ton Hole Fronts.
Evelyn O’Kelley, Button Sew
Fronts; Lula Wright, Final In
spect; Melanie Ivey, Collar
Press; Vivian Armistead,
Blower; Dura Austin, Folder;
Leis Watts, Myrtle Fincher and
Louise Duke, Boxer-s.
Near Top Operators:
Betty Edwards, Geneva Tom
lin, Nadine Long, Gussie Lou
Payne, Josephine Savage, Mae
Day, Musette Townsend, Min
erva Steadham.
Virginia Brumbalow, Weston
Williams, Barbara Durand, Lois
Bohannon, Sybil Stowe, Amy
Fincher, Lois Norman, Ruth
Lassiter.
Catherine Mcßay, Hazel
Hopkins, Christine Thompson.
Ethel Henderson, Katherine
Alexander, Frances Dawkins,
Geraldine Smallwood.
converted into a family plan
with the appeal that if the bill
is enacted, children no longer
will be responsible for their
aged parents’ medical needs.
The government would take
over.
What this development sug
gests is that sponsors of the
King-Anderson Bill, seeking
support from younger groups
as well as the aged, are en
couraging children to turn
their backs on their parents
and let Big Brother govern
ment do their caring for them.
They are also encouraging the
elderly to abdicate their re
sponsibilities to themselves so
that Big Brother can have it
going for him both ways.
Here’s the appeal, express
ed by Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare Abra
ham Ribicoff in a series of ar
ticles recently sent to news
papers throughout the coun
try.
“A young wage earner,”
Ribicoff wrote, “pleaded:
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Hays Trip To Russia
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the offices of the representa
tive countries of the United
Nations. The Assembly Build
ing which is the visitors’ en
trance to the Headquarters is
a low building. The lobby has a
85 ft. high roof, there is a
Bookshop, Souvenir Shop,
Postal Sales Counter and a
Public Lounge. The large Gen
eral Assembly Auditorium is
above the main lobby. Anoth
er building, called Conference
Building, has rooms for the
various Councils and large
Conference Halls for the main
committee of the General As
sembly. The 4th building of the
group is the Library. Below
street level are located the
maintenance workshops, a
complete fire-fighting unit, a
large printing plant, and an
underground garage with
parking space for 1,500 cars.
Our flight across the Atlan
tic was by Sabena Belgian
World Airlines Jel, leaving
New York at 9:30 P. M. Re
served seating had been ar
ranged so that we could remain
as a group aboard the plane.
The sun rose over the ocean
at 1:20 by my watch.
We arrived in Brussels, Bel
gium al 4:30 A. M. (or 10:30).
The lour company had a staff
member to assist us through
customs. An interpreter-guide
was with us the rest of the
trip.
Most of the meals were in
cluded in the tour arrange
ment. In Western Europe
breakfast is usually rolls, but
ter, jelly or jam. This is called
Continental Breakfast. Lunches
and dinners in the hotels were
according to a fixed menu—
drinks not included, as is the
custom in European hotels and
restaurants. Water is not given
unless requested. Most Euro
peans rarely drink plain wat
er. The hotels have a definite
time for meals.
Belgium has an area of a
little less than 12,000 square
miles and a population of a
little more than 9 million.
Brussels, the capital has a mil
lion people. The principal pro
ducts are iron, steel, coal, tex
tiles, chemicals, glassware,
fish, and grains. Belguim ex
ports much more than she im
ports. Farm labor is paid 25c
per hour, industrial workers,
50c. The frams are from 5 to
16 acres, the average is 12
acres. They use a plow with a
two-wheel cart drawn by a
horse. We saw a walking trac
tor which was guided from the
ground.
They have many cows but
they are small. We visited a
400-year-old dairy owned by
a French Estate. They are not
allowed to remodel or change
the building. If a board rots or
a shingle blows off, it can be
replaced. The average amount
of milk per cow is about 3
gallons. It sells for 38c per
Annual Parents* Day Program Held at Emory-Oxford
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PICTURED ABOVE IN ALLEN MEMORIAL Auditorium, where Emory at Oxford Parents
Day Program was held, are college officials and participants. Left to right they are: Brent
Pichard, Judiciary Council president: Ken Musgrove of Albany, incoming Council presi*
dent: Atlanta Journal Columnist and Author Ernest Rogers, main speakers and Dr. J.
Hamby Barton, EAO Academic Administrator.
gallon. They feed silage, hay,
and beets but no grain.
One of the highlights of the
tour of Belgium was a visit to
the wine - producing section
within the metropolitan area
of Brussels. The grapes are
grown in hothouses which are
in between homes and other
buildings along the streets.
There are 47 churches in
Brussels. 95 percent of the
people are Catholics. We saw
one church built in 1302, an
other in 1752.
They have electric street
cars. One pulls one and some
times two others.
We ate supper in a building
where beer was made in the
year 600—part of the original
building is still there.
in the Royal Lace Manufac
tory, established in 1868, we
saw lace being made by hand
and pure Belgian linen hand
kerchiefs, towels, and table lin
en. Tablecloths were priced
from $75.00 to $400.00.
We had dinner at a famous
restaurant, Grand Place, with
guests from the U. S. Embassy
and Belgian ministry of Agri
culture.
One of the most interesting
things in Belgium was the
Panorama of the Battle of
Waterloo. Waterloo is a village
9 miles from Brussels where
Napoleon, Emperor of the
French, suffered the defeat
that ended his power forever.
At the height of Napoleon's ca
reer of conquest in the early
1800’s, he was master of Eu
rope. But slowly the tide
started turning against him.
Th opposing allies — Russia,
Prussia, Austria, England, and
Spain captured Paris and
forced him to give up his
throne. He was exiled to the
island of Elba. After 10 months
there, he slipped away and
went to France. His old sol
diers joined him; they drove
the king from the throne. For
100 days Napoleon enjoyed a
return to his former glory.
Then the Allies again united
their forces against him. He
thought everything was under
control when he overtook the
British al Waterloo on June 17,
1815. But he could not attack
until the next morning. The
battle raged for 10 hours. The
Duke of Wellington, the Brit
ish General in charge of the
Allied forces, feared that his
forces would give way. but in
the late afternoon Prussian
soldiers arrived to help him.
The French made their last
desperate attack but met com
plete defeat. More than 45,000
men died on that battlefield
in one day. The Panorama of
the Battle of Waterloo is sim
ilar to the Cyclorama of the
Battle of Atlanta, but it is
several times as large.
On Friday, April 13, we
flew from Brussels to Moscow
with a brief stop in Amster
dam, Holland. We arrived in
Moscow about 4 o’clock in ice
and snow. The customs offici-
A Prix^Wirminc
Newspaper
1961
Better Newspaper
Contest*
als checked everything very
closely and took up some of
the literature and kept it.
What we commonly call
Russia is really a federation of
15 Soviet Republics called Un
ion of Soviet Socialist Repub
lics. Moscow is the capital city
of Russia, one of the Republics,
and it is also the capital of the
Federation of 15 Soviet Re
publics.
The USSR covers 1/6 of the
earth's Lnd surface. It has
218 million people who speak
67 different languages — Each
of its republics has its own
flag, constitution, and govern
mental body. Os course, Pre
mier Khruschef is the head of
the government.
Moscow with 5 million peo
ple is the sth largest city in
the world. It is built on 7 low
hills and is built roughly in
the form of a wheel with the
Kremlin as the center. It
covers 125 square miles. Many
of the streets are wide. It has
some skyscrapers, but most of
the buildings are rather low.
The outstanding point of
historical interest in Moscow
is, of course, the Kremlin. It
was opened to the public in
1955 after being closed for
years. The Kremlin is a walled
city within a city. It occupies
64 acres and includes 20 tow
ers, 7 churches and cathe
drals, palaces, museums and
office buildings. The museum or
armory contains many treasur
es—cut glass, porcelain, paint
ings, sculptures, carvings in
rare wood, gold dishes, clocks,
wedding dresses, and chariots
400 to 500 years old. Before
going into the museum, we had
to put on special shoes over
our own.
(To Be Continued Next Week)
Wm. H. Johnson
Funeral Held
Al Porterdale
Funeral services for William
H. Johnson of Route 3, Con
yers, were held Wednesday
afternoon, May 16, at th*
Church of Our Lord, Jesus
Christ, in Porterdale. Rev. J.
T. Payne officiated.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ollie Johnson, sons William
H. Keith and Kenneth Johnson,
father W. D. Johnson of Barn
esville; sisters, Mrs. J. W.
Faulk er, Barnesville; Mrs.
Charlie Mills, Covington; Mrs.
L. D. Mills, Griffin; Mrs. Fred
Rosser, Conyers; brothers, J.
R. Johnson, Conyers; Horace
L. Johnson, McDonough; Claude
Johnson, McDonough; Marvin
Johnson, Griffin and Joe John
son, Union City.
Interment was in Lawnwood
Memorial Park, Covington.
The NEWS joins friends in
extending deepest sympathy to
the family in their sorrow.
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