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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
"New Frontier" Leaders
Should Read Newspapers
Other Than Large Dailies
We would like. for a change, to quote
a legislator instead of an editor, and we
give you Rep Earl Wiison of Bedford. Ind
iana, who — in extending his remarks of
May 17 m the Congressional Record —
hoots at the frequently-heard charge that
‘‘Americans at the grassroots care little
about what is going on and are more con
cerned with what is on TV than with what s
happening in Berlin or Laos.”
In backing up his contention that small
town America is concerned and is well
informed by its own straight-thinking,
hard-hitting editors, this Congressman
quotes from a number of the newspapers
of his district — the Madison Courier on
Laos, the Seymour Tribune on foreign aid
and the fumbling in Berlin; from his home
town paper, the Bedford Times-Mail which
puts its finger squarely on the fallacy of
the Administration’s Trade Expansion Act
in saying:
"The bill's advocates say that it will
help the balance of payments. But they
overlook the fact that there is nothing in
the bill that assures we will increase our
sales more than we increase our purchases.
And unless we do this, the balance of pay
ments will get worse, not better.”
Mr. Wilson goes on to quote the Salem
Leader on the contributions of the Admin
istration to the very inflation it claims to
be holding in check, the Columbus Even
ing Republican on the different faces the
President presents to business (NAM) and
to labor (UAW), an editorial from the Hope
Star-Journal on the erosion of states' rights
in which it said (in part);
"If government has been lifted from
the hands of the people, it has not been at
gunpoint. Rather it has been a gentle pro
cess, performed while we, the people, slept.
Surely we cannot live in the past. And
Jefferson (on whose ideas the editorial was
based) wouldn’t advise that. He was speak
ing historically and the message is still
pertinent: “What has destroyed liberty and
the rights of man in every government
which has ever existed under the sun?
The generalizing and concentrating all cares
and powers in one body.’ . .
"If the New Frontier leaders.” says
Congressman Wilson, "would read some
newspapers other than the New York Post,
Washington Post, New York Times and
the like, if the brain trust would start read
ing the hometown papers as do so many
of this body, it would abandon its rush
toward one-worldism and the welfare state
and return to the principles that made this
country great. These principles are a pri
vate enterprise economy, a frugal ap
proach to Government spending, and a
truly Nationalistic foreign policy in every
respect.
“Mr. Speaker,” concludes the Indiana
solon, “these are the lessons I have learned
by doing my homework and reading my
newspapers. Many others could profit the
same way.”
The Question Is:
How Long Can Price
Stability Last?
A number of writers on economic af
fairs discount the possibility of a new wave
of inflation. They point out that the price
increases which have recently occurred
have been minor; that over the last two
years a degree of relative price stability
seems to have been obtained; that compe
titive pressures in both domestic and in
ternational markets are acting as a brake
on price hikes of any significance, and
that there is an abundance of goods and
sendees of even kind, in some instances
amounting to a surplus.
This is all true. But a nagging question
remains: How long can price stability last
in the face of the government’s current
fiscal policies?
Unbalanced budgets are not the only
cause of inflation. But they are one of
the main causes and, given certain sets of
circumstances, they become the decisive
force by far. The once-held hope for a
balanced budget in the next year or two
has vanished. The prospect is for more
deficits, and larger deficits.
This amounts to giving hostages to for
tune. What is needed is to erect a wall
around price stability, so to speak, by re
ducing and eliminating government spend
ing wherever possible — including, above
all, more Welfare State spending. Then the
possibility of more inflation really will
^kdiminish.
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Medical Benefits and
Public Opinion
It has been said that the American peo
ple are in favor of the bill which would
give medical services to everyone drawing
social security benefits, and would increase
social security taxes to meet or help meet
the tab — and that the opposition consists
only of relatively small, vocal, and selfish
groups.
Well, there is factual evidence concern
ing that view. Many members of Congress
periodically poll their constituents, to find
out their attitudes toward controversial
issues. Os 27 polls on the medical proposal
taken some little time ago, the voters op
posed the social security concept in 16
and supported it in only 11.
More recently, nine more such polls
have been taken by members of Congress
in their districts. The voters said No to
the social security concept in six of these
— Yes in three.
It thus seems evident that there is heavy
majority opinion in opposition to the plan.
It is also significant that some of the polls
asked if the voters favored voluntary and
ktate-administered plans for caring for
the aged, and the response was extremely
favorable. The Kerr-Mills bill, passed by
the last Congress, is based on this idea
and, while providing federal aid, places
administrative responsibility where it be
longs — in the states. Another long steo
forward is found in the plan sponsored
by the American Medical Association for
providing voluntary health insurance to
the aged at moderate rates.
The handwriting on the wall says that
more and more of the American people,
viewing apparently endless federal deficits
in spite of backbreaking taxation, are be
coming opposed to the Welfare State phil
osophy. And the social security approach
to the medical problems of the elderly falls
squarely within that philosophy.
Medical Technology
Should Attract
Youngsters of Today
The newest profession in the medical
field is that of the Medical Technologist.
Medical technology has come of age since
World War 11. It is one of the most im
portant, fastest growing, and lucrative
fields that youngsters of today could select
for a career.
There is a growing need for well-trained
technical workers of all kinds, according
to a bulletin released this month by the
Women’s Bureau of the United States De
partment of Labor. A number of surveys
indicate that more than three or four times
the number of currently trained and prac
ticing medical technologists are needed.
The medical technologist is a person qual
ified by proper training and skill to per
form all those tests and procedures which
we undergo during our annual checkups,
or when we have to be hospitalized. There
is already such a grave shortage of doc
tors, that their time must be conserved
and extended by the aid of qualified med
ical technologists.
According to the National Council of
Medical Technology Schools, a national
group consisting of the quality, approved
training instiutions for this field, salary
opoortunities are excellent — ranging from
S3OO to S7OO a month, depending upon ex
perience. Advances in rank and salary are
usually rapid. Many youngsters, unable
to afford the time and tuition to become
physicians, first become medical technol
ogists and then use these skills as a step
ping stone to a full medical career.
The top independent medical technology
schools last year graduated nearly 1,100
students. This year they are training near
ly 1.300, but the demand for well-qualified
graduates is outracing the supply more
and more each year. By streamlining in
struction methods in the usual 1,500-hour
program of instruction, these schools hope
to close the gap.
With the increase in treatment facilities
and the greater public awareness of the
dangers of all diseases, doctors will need
more and more “strong, right arms” to
help them serve humanity. Here is a ca
reer that should appeal to every youngster
in the land who wants to equip himself
for dedicated service, to earn good pay
and be assured of ever-increasing job op
portunities.
Tax Foundation tells us what federal
budget cuts would mean to American fa
milies. A $1 billion reduction, it says, would
allow each family of four to keep $lB and
spend it the way it wishes, instead of pay-
I ing it out in taxes.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Christ Speaks to the Churches
Bible Material: Acts 1:8b;
11:25-9; Revelation 1-3.
Devotional Reading: John
14:15-21; Memory Selection:
Behold, I stand at the door and
knock; if anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I
will come in to him and eat
with him, and he with me. Re
velation 3:20.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
How Do We Rate?
Young People - Adult Topic:
Christ Speaks to the Churches.
The ideal of the church is not
prominent in the Gospels. This
is quite natural, since the Mes
siah was sent first to the cho
sen people. After he had been
refused by them, and after the
message of the gospel was
completed by the cross and
resurrection, there was one
message the risen Lord deliv
ered again and again. He gave
them the mandate to go into ail
the world and make disciples
and establish his church.
True it is that after the
confession of the Apostle Peter,
Christ did mention the church
as we read in Matthew 16:18.
But in his final instructions Je
sus told his disciples not to
start out on this mission at
once, but to await the power of
the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).
There was indeed a church dur
ing the ten-day prayer meeting
when the disciples met in t h e
upper room.
Then came Pentecost which
is the real birthday of the
Christian church. Then the Holy
Spirit came with power. Then
the disciples went forth to
preach and found churches.
The Book of Acts is written
to show how the church began.
We should note that there were
many witnesses, but the real
founder of the church was, of
course, the Holy Spirit. At first
the disciples were not clear as
to just how the church should
be constituted. Should it be a
national church of Jewish con
verts only? The Holy Spirit did
not show them all at once, but
gradually they were brought to
realize that the Gentiles also
were now to become members
of the church, which was the
new “Zion” destined to extend
to all the world and include
people of every race, tongue,
and nation.
So those few disciples, with
out funds and without educa
tion or organization, began th?
greatest movement the world
has ever known, the expansion
of the Christian church.
It began there by the little
Sea of Galilee and in the life
time of the Apostles spread to
lands all around the Mediter
ranean. As time passed it swept
across Europe, and into Asia
and to the lands around the At
lantic Ocean. Then carried by
the great pioneer missionaries
of the modern era, the gospel
was preached and the church
was founded beside the waters
of all the world.
After the Acts of the Apos
tles, the New Testament Epis
tles are written to guide new
churches in matters of faith
and conduct. The Apostle Paul
works out the theology of the
church in his letters. Christ
was in the beginning and al
ways will be. the supreme head
of the church which is his body
— the body of all true believ
ers, the Christian community,
the world-wide fellowship of
the redeemed.
The church down across the
centuries has not. always re
mained true to its Head, and
many terrible acts have been
perpetrated in the name of re
ligion. There have been great
divisions and warring factions
in what should be the one body
of Christ. There have been
many times when it seemed the
church would be wiped out —
and great portions of it have
been. North Africa has been
termed “The Land of the Van
ished Church.” Here the Chris
tian community was all but
drowned out by the tidal wave
of Islam.
Yet when empires have
crumbled and great civiliza
tions have fallen, the church
has remained and has finally
built upon the ashes and ruins
■ the new temple of God. the
; church being the outward ex
pression of the kingdom of
Christ.
The great mosque in
damascus was form
ed a Christian church. When
taken over by the Moslems, the
I portal of the church was closed
with masonry, and other en
’ trances were used. But there
' still remains on the side of the
great mosque, above what was
l once the portal, this inscription
iin Greek: “Thy kingdom, O
Christ, is an everlasting king
i dom and thy dominion endur
j eth throughout all generations.”
Mute evidence, carved in
stone, but eternally true. Em
pires rise and fall, kingdoms
come and go, but the church
comes down across the centur
ies with ever increasing power.
It is the greatest force in the
world.
We live in the generation
when the Protestant Church
has become truly worldwide.
What a responsibility we have
to build this church which must
shine forth with “The Light of
the World.”
The Portestant churches of
the world had long cooperated
in the International Missionary
Council, and of late years most
branches of the regular denom
inations have joined the World
Council of Churches. The term
“ecumenical” has come to be
used to denote the world-wide
। church of all Protestant de
nominations. “Ecumenical” is
! from the Greek and denotes the
inhabited world. Used with
। the term “church,” it refers to
the Christian fellowship of the
entire inhabited earth; and
there are scarcely any parts of
the world where the Protestant
Church of Christ does not exist
today.
It. is only within the present
generation that this concept has
been forced upon the thinking
of Christians. As the gospel was
preached to the world this
church of all nations came about
more by God’s design, it seems,
than by man’s specific plann
ing.
However, when “Christ
Speaks to the Churches,” which
is our lesson title today, he
speaks to a truly world-wide
body made up of people from
many races. They pray in hun
dreds of different tongues, they
are scattered over all the con
tinents and the islands of' the
seven seas — yet they are all
one in their devotion to Christ
as Lord and Master.
The risen and living Christ
in giving his Revelation to the
Apostle John says in the eighth
verse of chapter I, “I am the
Alpha and Omega,” these being
the first and last letters of the
Greek alphabet. This expres
sion has become proverbial as
denoting the first and the last.
Now in the latter part of verse
17 Christ repeats the assertion
in just those words, “The first
and the last.” “In the begin
ning was the Word,” the Apos
tle John tells us in the prelude
to his Gospel. And now in the
final “Revelation” comes the
mighty vision of the conclu
sion of this age and John
ends, “Amen, Come, Lord Je
sus.” So Christ is indeed before
all things, and all are consum
mated in him:
“Christ is the beginning, and
the end is Christ.”
Letters To
The Editor
June 5,1962
Honorable Leo S. Mallard,
Editor
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mr. Mallard:
We certainly appreciate the
coverage given this Depart
ment's Tour of the Week in
the May 31 issue of the NEWS.
We feel that Georgia’s eco
nomic future has never been
brighter, and we acknowledge
with gratitude the splendid co
operation you have given dur
ing the past year.
Looking forward to a con
tinued productive association,
and with warmest wishes for
a successful year, I am
Sincerely,
Jack Minter
Cousins P-TA
Has Final
Meeting of Year
The R. L. Cousins Parent -
Teacher Association held their
final meeting for the school j
term on Thursday night, May !
18. All committees made thei”
final report for the year.
Report of the year's work of
the PTA was given by M r s.
Maud L. Grimes. A wonderful j
discussion of art display made
by the elementary department,
was given by Miss B. J
Preacher and Miss Sarah j
Stone. The parents and teach- |
ers wish to express their ap
preciation to all patrons and
friends who cooperated and
helped carry out the many
projects that were planned for
the school year.
We are looking forward to j
। meeting again Thursday night, 1
September 20.
A social hour was enjoyed
with refreshments served in the
cafeteria. I
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Youth Asked
To Use Car in
Seeking Job
“When looking for summer
employment, try to find a job
that will be of value in your
future career end be sure that
it is performed under condi
tions not harmful to your
health and welfare.”
That is the advice of Region
al Director Sterling B. Wil
liams of the U. S. Department
of Labor’s Wage and Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions, the
agency which administers the
Fair Labor Standards Act and
its child-labor provisions.
“Although it is not always
possible to obtain the exact
type of work you would like,
there is a variety of jobs per
missible under the Federal
law.” Williams said.
Boys and girls as young as
14 and 15 may be employed as
clerks or stock workers in
stores. They also may do of
fice or clerical work in most
businesses.
Sixteen — and 17-year-olds
may work in any job—includ
ing factory work—except those
which have been declared
hazardous by the Secretary of
Labor. These jobs, which still
require an 18-year age mini
mum, include such work as
truck driver or driver’s helper,
elevator operator, logger, min
er, sawmill worker or opera
tor of certain power-driven
machines.
“You should, of course,
check your State child-labor
law to make sure that you are
also complying with it,” Wil
liams pointed out.
Further information on the
child-labor provisions of the
Fair Labor Standards Act can
be obtained from William O.
Futch, supervisor of the At
lanta Wage-Hour office at
Room 521, 1371 Peachtree
Street, N. E.. or Richard P.
Stern, supervisor of the South
Atlanta Wage-Hour office at
Room 217, International Office
Park, 1001 Virginia Avenue,
Hapeville.
Offices of the State Employ
ment Service have informa
tion on the availability of jobs.
It is a good idea to take proof
of age with you when you ap
ply for work.
Concrete highways can now
be paved in continuous ribbons
instead of the short sections
which sometimes cause a
“bumpy” ride. A secret in
making the continuous pave
ment is splicing steel rein
forcing bars imbedded in the
concrete, much as steel rails
are welded to eliminate the
familiar “clickety-clack” of
trains.
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Essential industry
“Vital” is the word for the job of our dairy farmers. They’re the
men who supply us with nature’s most perfect foods-cool milk,
ice cream, rich cheese and pure cream butter. June is their month.
And here’s our heartfelt “thank you” for a job well done.
International Quiet,
Domestic Sorrow, and
A Historic Day
ly LEO S. MALLARD
This has been a confusing week. American celebrities
performed in Moscow before a smiling Khrushchev and
thousands of Russians. On the surface of the international
waters between the Eastern and Wastern powers calm pre
vailed. On the National scene the stock market had a wild
week.
In Paris, France, the crash of
an Air France jet airliner caus
ed Atlanta to mourn. The cream
of Atlanta’s cultural elite per
ished as their plane fell dur
ing take-off and exploded.
This group of citizens, mem
bers of the Atlanta Municipal
Art Association, was touring
the art centers of the world ®t
their own expense in order to
bring back their new knowledge
to their beloved city and state.
Wednesday, June 6, passed
unheralded. Yet, this historic
day will be remembered by
thousands of veterans through
out their lives. Just 18 years
ago June 6 was designated as
“D-Day” and “Operation Over
lord” was launched as Allied
troops by the thousands inva
ded the Nazi held continent of
Europe at Normandy, France to
begin the all-out drive to con
quer Germany end once again
bring peace to the world.
Since that time. Gen. Dwight
David Eisenhower, Supreme
Allied Commander in the Eu
ropean Theatre, has served
eight years as a Republican
President of the United States.
In 1962 the Democrats ousted
the Republicans as John Fitz
gerald Kennedy, a PT com
mander in the Pacific Theatre
during World War 11, entered
the White House.
This week President Ken
nedy met with Georgia Gov
ernor Ernest Vandiver and
other Southern governors to
discuss the plight of the poul
try industry in the South under
the administrations policies.
Quiet prevailed on the inter
national scene and allowed the
President to devote more time
to domestic issues.
Kennedy’s recent action of
landing U. S. Marines in Thia
land has temporarily put a
hush on the Kremlin. Khrush
chev told a Wester diplomat
that “he (Kennedy) plays a
reckless game.” So far Mr.
Kennedy’s “unpredictability”
has caused Khrushchev to be
Thursday, June 7, 1981
more wary in his dealings with
the U. S. President. It has also
led the Soviets to reconsider
their own strategic thinking.
The thought that President
Kennedy may be considering a
“preventive war” if necessary
seems to be causing the So
viets to progress more cau
tiously than heretofore toward
their agressive goals around the
world.
In general, U. S. officials are
not disturbed by these “over
sensitive” reactions. At least
until the Soviets have complet
ed their forthcoming nuclear
tests, they think the Kremlin
will be made more cautious be
cause of its uncertainty about
“What will Kennedy do?”
Harold W. Mann
Receives Ph.D.
At Duke Univ.
DURHAM, N C., June-
More than 1,100 Duke Univer
sity students, including Har
old Wilson Mann, Ph.D. de
gree, of Covington, received
degrees during Duke's 110th
Commencement exercises here
on Monday morning, June 4.
Duke University’s 1962 class
included students from 40
states, the Distinct of Colum
bia and 15 foreign countries.
They received a total of 21 dif
ferent degrees, ranging from
the BA. to the PhJD.
Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell,
president of the University of
Pennsylvania, delivered the
commencement address at the
10:30 a m. exercises in Duke's
Indoor Stadium. His topic was
“How Best to Foster American
Higher Educational Opportun
ity in the Years Ahead.”
Steel can be made soft
enough to be scratched with a
penknife, or so hard it take*
a diamond to scratch it.