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Covington Pilot Club Officers Were Installed Thursday
Miss Ruth Tanner Is
President For 1962-63
The 1962-63 officers of the Pilot Club of Covington were
installed May 17 at the Porterdale Woman’s Club. The club
room was attractively decorated with the club colors of
green and gold.
Ernest Parker
Funeral Rites
Held, Covington
Funeral services for Earnest
E. Parker of Savannah, were
held Saturday afternoon, May
19. at the Chapel of Harwell
Funeral Home with Rev. Edgar
Callaway, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. Parker died in a Savan
nah hospital on May 17, after
a lingering illness. A retired
representative of a Seed Com
pany, he was 81 at the time of
his death.
Surviving are two sons, E.
Frank Parker, Birmingham,
Alabama; Eugene R. Parker,
Marietta; two daughters, Mrs.
W. I. Ireland, Savannah; Mrs.
Arthur A Crawford, Atlanta;
brothers, Grady Parker, Atlan
ta; Julius J. Parker, Columbus;
sisters, Miss Alma Parker, Miss
Ruth Parker, Mrs. Harry Dietz,
•11 of Covington; Mrs. E. L.
Lowe, Notasulge, Alabama;
Mrs. Rena P. Sinclair; White
Oake and Rowland, North Ca
rolina; seven grandchildren
•nd 11 great-grandchildren.
Interment was in Covington
Cemetery with J. C. Harwell
and Sen Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements. Ne
phews served as pallbearers.
The NEWS joins friends of
the family in extending deep
est sympathy to them in their
sorrow.
Mrs. Cawthon is
Accepted in
Select Group
Mrs. Talmadge Cawthon. of
fice manager of McGuire Mo
tor Company, Covington, was
honored by the Chrysler Mo
tor Corporation Monday by her
selection for the “Chrysler Mo
tor Corp. Institute of Profi
cient Automotive Account
ants.”
The citation and lapel pin
were presented by T. F. Hen
derson, city manager of the
Dodge Division Chrysler Mo
tors Corp., Atlanta. The re
cognition was given after four
years of exceeding require
ments as established by Chrys
ler. She is only one of seven
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TT ISN'T OFTEN that a baby may hare its picture taken which includes
five Generations — but to have pictures taken of five generations, three
ways, that is news! Little Tommy Lee Millwood is such a youngster. In
the photo at left, those pictured are from left io right: Mrs. E. H. McCart
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
After the delicious dinner,
Mrs. Edna Weigel presided at
the meeting. Mrs. Ruth Cowan,
Club Historian, gave a brief re
sume of the activities of the
year. Twenty-one club mem
bers were present and of this
number eleven were honored
for having 100 percent atten
, dance for the year. Those so
honored were: Mrs. Frances Al
len, Mrs. Cecile Dial, Miss Ruth
Tanner, Miss Jordye Tanner,
Miss Ruth Parker, Mrs. Nell
Nixon. Mrs. Louise Kitchens,
Mrs. Edna Weigel, Mrs. Eliza
beth Norton, Mrs. Brownie Os
man and Miss Anne Woodward.
Special guests for the occasion
were Mrs. Frances Ford, 2nd
Lt. Governor of District I, and
Mrs. Margaret M. Birchfield,
both members of the Monroe
Pilot Club.
The membership and Pilot
Information Committee with
Mrs. Cecile Dial as Chairman
was in charge of the program.
Mrs. Lois Hay introduced Mrs.
Ford, who installed the newly
elected officers in a most im
pressive ceremony. The theme
of the installation was the
“Dial of Time” and each officer
placed an appropriate gift in
keeping with her office upon
the dial; they in turn were
joined by the entire member
ship with their gifts.
The new officers for 1962-63
are: President, Miss Ruth Tan
ner; Ist Vice President, Miss
Anne Woodward; 2nd Vice
President, Mrs. Frances Allen:
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ce
cile Dial: Corresponding Secre
tary, Mrs. Louise Kitchens:
Treasurer, Miss Martha Ram
sey; Directors, Mrs. Edna Wei
gel, Mrs. Ruth Sherwood and
Miss Jordye Tanner. Outgoing
President Edna Weigel then
gave the gavel and pinned the
President’s pin on Miss Ruth
Tanner. Then President Tan
ner pinned the Past President’s
pin on Mrs. Edna Weigel. The
Code of Ethics was given by
Mrs. Ruth Sherwood.
After a few items of business,
the meeting was adjourned.
receiving the honor in the
Southern states of Georgia,
Florida and Alabama.
Mrs. Cawthon has been em
ployed by McGuire Motors for
the past 11 years.
Americans have never been
fed so well for so little, despite
the fact that there are m o r e
people in the U. S. and fewer
farmers to feed them.
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COVINGTON PILOT CLUB officers for 1962-63 were in
stalled at a dinner meeting Thursday at the Porterdale
Woman's Club building. Shown in the picture above, left
io right are: Mrs. Cecile Dial, recording secretary: Mrs.
Louise Kitchens, corresponding secretary: Mrs. Ruth Sher-
Federal Land
Bank Holds
Director's Meet
James P. Hatchell and Reuben
M. Tuck, Jr., Manager and
Assistant Manager of the Fed
eral Bank Association of Mad
ison have returned from a Di
rector’s Conference held joint
ly with Georgia and South Ca
rolina at Jekyll Island, Geor
gia. Mr. Tuck, formerly of Cov
ington, is the son of Col R, M.
Tuck, Covington Attorney.
J. Booth Williams of Monroe,
President of the Madison Asso
ciation and member of t h e
Board of Directors for the Third
Farm Credit District accom
panied Mr. Hatchell and Mr.
Tuck.
Officials of the Federal Land
Bank and other Farm Credit
leaders spotlighted the 45-year
record of service to Farmers by
the Land Bank System.
Highlight of the meeting was
the Bank’s report to the mem
bers which stated that 1961 was
a record year for volume and
new business.
The Madison association han
dles the making and servicing
of loans for the Federal Land
Bank of Columbia in Newton
and sixteen surrounding coun
ties out of the association of
fice in Madison.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1962
Mrs. Wagner Wins
Cow Palace Prize
Mrs. Dianne Wagner (nee
Dianne Moore), 211 Carroll
Street, Covington, was winner
of the $50.00 in cash at the Cow
Palace on the Madison Highway
as the firm made its first award
Saturday evening.
To Attend
Anchor
Ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Ty Cason, Mrs.
John Chesnut and Miss Rebecca
Pennington will leave Saturday
May 26th to attend the Me
morial Day Poppy Anchor Cer
emony at the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland on May 30, 1962.
The Anchor to be launched
will be the same Anchor which
was made by Unit No. 32 Am
erican Legion Auxiliary mem
bers and dedicated in Cov
ington on April 29th at the
First Methodist Church.
Mrs. Cason, Poppy Anchor
Chairman, American Legion
Auxiliary, Department of Geor
gia, will participate in the
ceremony in honor of the boys
who lost their lives at sea. The
time of the ceremony will
coincide with the placing of
the Memorial Wreath on the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
great-great-grandmother: Mrs. Pierce Edwards, great-grandmother; Tommy
Lee Millwood; Mrs. Tommy Millwood, mother; and Mrs. James H. Tuggle,
grandmother. In the center picture, from left to right: Pierce Edwards,
great-grandfather; Mrs. Edgar Edwards, great-great-grandmother; Tommy
wood, director; Miss Martha Ramsey, treasurer: Miss Anne
Woodwrrd, first vice-president: Mrs. Edna Weigel, outgoing
president; Miss Ruth Tanner, newly installed president:
Mrs. Frances Ford of Monroe, District Lt.-Governor; Mrs.
Lillian Jeffares. chaplain; and Miss Jordye Tanner, director.
Dean H. Getz
Plant Manager
At Brunswick
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DEAN H. GETZ
Brunswick Corporation has
announced the appointment of
Dean H. Getz as plant manager
and Carl W. Lundgren as Su
perintendent of Golf Ball manu
facturing at their Covington
facilities.
Mr. Getz comes to Coving
ton with eleven years of manu
facturing background with
Brunswick’s Muskegon, Michi-
gan Automatic Pinsetter and
Bowling Plants. He joined
Brunswick as an industrial en
gineer and progressed to the
position of chief manufacturing
engineer which he held prior to
his new assignments in Cov
ington.
Mr. Getz is a graduate of
Purdue University in Mechan
ical engineering and was presi
dent of the Mona Shores Lions
Club in Muskegon, as well as
active in the Y Mens Club,
Industrial Management Society,
Chamber of Commerce, P. T. A.,
and the Methodist Church. Mr.
Getz is temporarily living in
Conyers with his wife Barbara,
and two children, Faye Marie
-9, and Gary -7, until they
can find permanent housing in
Covington.
Mr. Lundgren has been a
resident of the Covington area
for over a year having played
a major part in the starting of
the Brunswick’s Local Facili
ties. In accepting the assign
ment of superintendent Mr.
Lundgren strengthens the golf
ball operation by the weight of
his 24 years of prior manu
facturing experience with the
company.
A graduate of Ohio State
University, he holds both a
Bachelor and Master Degree in
Chemistry. Mr. Lundgren and
his wife, Anne, currently reside
in Oxford on North Emory
Street.
Farming creates more than
two jobs off the farm for every
job in agriculture.
Lee Millwood: Mrs. Tommy Millwood, mother: and Mrs. James H. Tuggle,
grandmother. In photo at right: Mrs. Jessie Bates, great-great-grandmother;
Mrs. Herschel Dimsdale, great-grandmother; Mrs. Tommy Millwood,
mother; Tommy Lee Millwood; and James H. Tuggle, grandfather.
This Paper Is Covington’s
Index To Civic PRIDE and
PROSPERITY
Homer Sharp, Jr.
Honored by
Natl. Fraternity
Homer F. Sharp, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Homer F. Sharp,
was signally honored on May
21, when he was chosen for
membership in The Society of
the Sigma Xi, national frater
nity devoted to the promotion
of Research in Science.
Mr. Sharp, whose field of re
seairh is in Zoology, received
his A. B. degree at Emory Uni
versity. He is currently work
ing toward a Ph. D. at the Uni
versity of Georgia, where he is
an assistant teacher in the Zo
ology Department, and will re
ceive his M. A. degree in Au
gust.
Mr. Sharp and his wife were
among guests at a banquet at
the Georgian Hotel in Athens,
on Monday evening, when he
and other candidates, were re
ceived into membership in the
fraternity.
Latest U. S. government sta
tistics show that dairy foods
take one-fifth of the consumer's
food dollar. At the same time,
dairy foods are exceptional be
cause they supply a larger
proportion of the total supply
of American food nutrients than
any other food group.
Delores Malcolm, Roy Sleadham,
Jr., Cousins, to Graduate
DELORES MALCOLM
Brothers and sisters who are
also cousins are currently en
rolled at Emory-At-Oxford
College.
Delores Malcolm, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Malcolm,
Gordy Street, Covington, will
enter the University of Geor
gia in the fall. She will be a
junior in the School of Educa
tion, majoring in History. R o y
Steadham, Jr., her cousin, son
of Mr. and Mrs Roy Steadham
of Covington, will be a junior
NUMBER 21
Dr. Freeman is
Speaker at
Mansfield Lions
Dr. G Ross Freeman, State
Chaplain of the Georgia Assn,
of Soil Conservation District
Supervisors, will be the guest
speaker at the Mansfield Lions
Club meeting, Monday, May
28th at 7:30 o’clock.
Program chairman of the
meeting is A. E. Hays, Sr. He
has announced that the Rev.
Clyde Lancaster, pastor of the
Loganville Methodist Church,
and Chaplain of the Upper Oc
mulgee River Conservation
District, will introduce Dr.
Freeman.
Dr. Freeman of Emory Uni
versity in Atlanta, will spe..k
on “Soil Conservation Week.”
which is presently underway
throughout Georgia.
Lion President Bo Dennis
urges all members to be pre
sent for the meeting Monday.
Farmers in the United States
spend around $26 billion a year
for goods and services to pro
duce crops and livestock.
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ROY STEADHAM, JR.
in the School of Physics at Em
ory University in Atlanta.
Delores and Roy entered th*
four-year junior college at Ox
ford three years ago. They are
scheduled to graduate in June
after completing the course in
three years.
Roy and Delores are cousins.
Their sisters Gloria Jean Mal
colm and Judith Steadham w.ll
attend summer school at Emory
-at-Oxford this summer where
they will be freshmen next fall.