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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
U.S. Safety Experts Seek
Traffic Controls Uniformity
Nearly every American driver is plagued
by a confusing and often conflicting va
riety of traffic controls and regulations
confronting him on his highway travels.
In some states, he must stop for a
school bus but in other states it's an in
vitation to an accident. In some states,
left side passing only is permitted but in
others either right or left is allowed. Some
cities use a three-face traffic light while
others use two. Reflectorized, easily-read
signs are provided along some highways
while along others a near stop is necessary
to gain information.
Elimination of this troublesome and
hazardous confusion has been a longtime
goal of the Automotive Safety Foundation,
which reports that prospects are better
this year than ever before for a major
breakthrough toward nation-wide uniform
ity of traffic rules and traffic control de
vices.
There are two organizations with major
responsibilities in achieving uniformity.
One is the National Joint Committee on
Uniform Traffic Control Devices which is
concerned with uniform signs, signals and
markings. Its membership represents the
American Association of State Highway
Officials, the Institute of Traffic Engineers,
the National Committee on Uniform Traf
fic Laws and Ordinances, the American
Municipal Association and the National As
sociation of County Officials, all of which
have received Automobile Safety Founda
tion grants.
The other organization is the National
Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and
Ordinances. This group, composed of more
than 100 representatives of federal, state
and local government and safety organi
zations, has drafted and fostered a Uniform
Vehicle Code as a standard for uniform
state motor vehicle laws and a Model Traf
fic Ordinance as a guide for cities.
Four factors indicate that uniformity
in .these areas soon may be a reality;
A new national manual on Uniform
Traffic Control Devices has been prepared
by the National Joint Committee, approv
ed by the Bureau of Public Roads and pub
lished Jay the information of state and local
highway officials. An essential feature of
the new manual is the replacement of many
optional traffic control devices that form
erly were permitted by a single standard.
Importantly, too, many of the newly-ap
proved signs, signals and markings are
larger lor better visibility at highway driv
ing speeds.
The’ Bureau of Public Roads has an
nounced that only traffic control devices
which -conform to the standards of the
new manual will be approved for installa
tion on the federal aid highway system.
This means that all federal aid highways
will be marked by a uniform system as
rapidly as non-standard signs, signals and
markings can be replaced by standard
ones.
For the first time county and city of
ficials took part in preparation of the new
control device manual and their national
organizations are lending support to the
drive for uniformity.
The National Committee on Uniform
Traffic Laws and Ordinances recently ap
proved a substantially revised Uniform
Vehicle Code. The new revision is expect
ed to be published later this year.
For the average driver the greatest ben
efit of uniform, high-quality traffic con
trols is the greater safety, comfort and
convienience enjoyed while driving through
convenience enjoyed while driving through
Uniformity of signs, signals and mark
ings aid drivers by providing instant rec
ognition and understanding. It also assists
law enforcement officials by eliminating
questions about interpretations of control
measures. Moreover, uniformity makes pos
sible economies in the manufacture and
maintenance of traffic control devices. All
of these factors contribute to the safety
and efficiency of highway transportation.
To help meet the demands growing en
rollments will make on institutions of
higher learning during the next five years,
three foundations financed by Standard
Oil of Indiana will increase their educational
grants through 1966 to a total of more than
$4 million. This program, says the com
pany's president, adds “substantial un
restricted grants to leading universities
noted for their general excellence, their
contributions to national life, their sig
nificance in training students from nations
of the Free World, and the quality of their
graduate education.”
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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People in Lower Income Tax
। Bracket Would Be Hard Hit
By New Collecting Method
The wave of opposition which greeted
the proposal to levy a 20 per cent federal
withholding tax against income from div
dends and interest was, it would seem,
. far greater in intensity and volume than
the Administration expected. There is good
reason why that should be so.
The objections are unusually varied.
For one thing, this is not a new tax, but a
complicated and costly method of collecting
taxes which in multitudes of cases are not
owed in the first place. The principal bur
den would fall on people in the lower in
come tax brackets, where the effective in
come tax rate is far below 20 per cent.
Obtaining refunds for overpayment is
a time-consuming process. Meanwhile, the
government would have taken — long
ahead of due date — funds which other
wise could have been deposited or invest
ed, and brought income to their owners.
Investment objectives established for the
education of children, retirement and other
goals would thus be undermined.
Great numbers of people — many in
the low brackets — reinvest dividends and
leave interest on savings deposits intact so
that they will produce more interest. But,
should the bill pass, 20 per cent of such
income would be taken in advance, and
these people would suffer accordingly.
There are ways — sound ways — to
deal with tax evasion. The new electronic
processing machines the Internal Revenue
Service is installing constitute one. An
other is a stepup in the Treasury’s tax
educational campaign. A third is for the
service to make better use of the huge
resources of information and manpower it
now possesses. It is not necessary to pen
alize the many because of the failure or
dishonesty of the few.
Interstate Highways
Will Save Many Lives
Members of the Covington Kiwanis
Club, at a recent meeting, heard an inter
esting program and saw an enlightening
film on Interstate highway construction. It
is time now that we pause and reflect on
the benefits of better highways — summed
up most tersely as saving lives, saving time,
saving money.
The 41,000 mile Interstate System is,
of course, the outstanding example of the
broadest application of modern highway
engineering, with controlled access, wide,
sweeping curves and divided traffic lanes.
When completed, it will save from 6.000
to 9.000 lives a year. It will cut travel time
from a third to a half, and highway travel
expense almost in half over present-day
“stop-and-go” highways. If the System car
ries about 23 percent of the nation's traffic
as estimated, construction and mainten
ance costs will figure out to .4 of a cent
per vehicle-mile — compared with .7 of a
cent for the average primary highway of
earlier days, and over 1.2 cents for second
ary roads.
Usefulness considered, therefor, the
finest highways cost far less than the in
ferior ones. Studies already made on thru
way operation on commercial vehicles, in
dicate that measurable benefits in cash
savings will amount to three times the cost
of the entire Interstate System, while truck
ers will save $2 billion a year in lower
operating costs and prevention of accidents.
The average driver of the family car
will save money on more miles per gallon,
per tire, per brake-lining — and for that
matter — per car. These savings he can
jingle in his pocket or put in the bank.
In being able to drive in a day what was
formerly a two day trip, he saves both
time and expense. If he saves half an hour
a day in driving to and from work, and if
his chances of accident are greatly reduced,
the savings are significant, but not so easy
to compute in cash. But saving lives is
something else again.
No one can compute the value of a life
lost in a traffic accident. And multiplying
I this impossibility by the thousands of lives
that will be spared each year because of
the Interstate Highway System alone,
brings us sharply face to face with the
fact that better highways are. fundamen
tally, a moral obligation. They will prove
a rewarding investment for America, far
beyond any economic return.
From the Portland, Oregon, Journal:
‘The longer the debate continues over a
federal withholding tax on income from
dividends and interest, the clearer it be
comes that it would be an unfair burden
on low-income taxpayers, and that collect
ing it would be a giant pain in the national
neck.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Assoc iat« Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Fast Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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SOUR WEEKLY (O LESSON FOR
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Jeremiah Sees Hope
Beyond Tragedy
Bible Material: 2 Kings 24:-
11-16; Jeremiah 29:1-4; 30:18-
24; 31; 32:36-42; 33:14-26.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
36:5-11; Memory Selection: This
is the covenant which I will
make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the
LORD: I will put my law with
in them, and I will write it up
on their hearts; and I will be
their God, and they shall be
my people. Jeremiah 31:33.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Brighter Days Ahead.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Hope Beyond Tragedy.
Jeremiah, who is so often re
ferred to as the sorrowing pro
phet, is also a prophet of com
forting hope. Most of his oracles
deal with God’s judgment up
on his people because of their
sin. The doom of Jerusalem and
the nation is close by; there
is little chance of rescue. Israel
is about to receive her just de
serts because of her sinful ways.
And then comes a group of
chapters, 29. 33, which contain
messages of hope and comfort
for God’s people.
Beyond the tragic situation
of the moment Jeremiah sees
the fulfillment of God’s promis
es to his children in their re
turn to Jerusalem and in a new
spiritual condition which shall
prevail in Israel.
The prophets of the Old Tes
tament had tremendous faith,
and Jeremiah was no exception.
Even though capitulation to the
enemy was the only way out
at the present moment, Jere
miah saw the time in the future
when Judah would no longer
be in enemy hands, and peace
and prosperity would prevail
everywhere. God’s eternal pur
poses are not to be thwarted by
evil men. God would even use
evil men to accomplish his will.
So Jeremiah believed. Even
though Jeremiah’s world was
falling to pieces around him, he
knew that some day houses
would be built again in Jeru
salem. gardens would be plant
ed. and God’s people would live
in peace once more.
This is the kind of faith we
need today to sustain us in the
face of danger, doubt and disil
lusionment.
The background Scripture for
this lesson includes references
to most of the chapters in
Jeremiah which deal with t h e
future hope of Israel. The first
reference is to chapter 29 (not
in the printed lesson text),
which tells about a letter that
Jeremiah wrote to the Jews in
Babylon who had been taken
captive in 597 B. C. Thev were
naturally' very discouraged, far
from home and without any ap
parent hope of returning. Jere
miah tells the exiles first of all
to make the best of their lot
for the time being and to seek
the welfare of the city in which
they are living, since there will
not be a sudden deliverance, as
some false prophets had been
proclaiming. “But,” declares I
God through his prophet, “after
seventy years be accomplished
at Babylon, I will visit you, and
perform my good word toward
you in causing you to return
; to this place” (Jer. 29:10).
Even though Israel had sin
ned against God, He still loved
his people and held out to them
: the hope of the future restora
■ tion of their land and homes.
• “For I know the thought that I
“ think toward you, saith the
1 Lord, thoughts of peace and
not of evil, to give you an ex
pected end” (Jer. 29:11).
But this hope of return to
their beloved country depend
ed also upon the willingness of
the people to repent of their
sins and turn to God. “Then
shall y r e call upon me an d
ye shall go and pray unto me,
and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek me and find
me; when ye shall search for
me with all your heart” (Jer.
29:12 - 13). The exile was God’s
judgment upon a sinful and
wayward people. He could not
take away the punishment, but
He could tell his people through
the prophet that their days of
chastisement were numbered
and that with renewed and
chastened hearts they would
return to their homeland after
the exile.
God’s mercy always far out
reaches his wrath. This is why
the prophets could temper their
message of judgment with
words of love and hope. “And
I will be found of you, saith the
Lord, and I will turn away your
captivity and I will gather you
from all the nations and from
all the places whither I have
driven you, saith the Lord, and
I will bring you again into the
nlace whence I caused you to
be carried away captive” (Jer.
29:14).
This is the divine love which
reaches down and redeems us
from our sin and gives us eter
nal hope in Christ. For even
while we were sinners Christ
died for us. God created us for
fellowship with Him. When sin
broke that fellowship. God tried
in many ways to woo us back
| to Himself. When we sin, He
punishes us, but He is ever
ready to take us back when we
confess our faults and come to
Him for mercy. Christ brings
us not only redemption, but
hope as well.
Jeremiah looks forward both
to a physical restoration of
homes and land for the exiles,
and also to a new spiritual con
dition among the people This
new relation between God and
his children is described in
terms of a new covenant. The
old covenant, made between
God and Israel in the days of
Moses, had been continually
broken by Israel down through
the centuries. She had disobyed
God and had gone after pagan
deities. Now that covenant be
tween God and the nation will
be discarded, and a more spiri
tual relationship between God ‘
and the individual will take its
i place. *
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“But this shall be the co
; venant that I will make with
) the house of Israel; After those
days, saith the Lord: I will put
my law in their inward parts,
* and write it in their hearts; and
! will be their God, and they
■ shall be my people. And they
| shall teach no more every man
I his neighbor and every man his
brother, saying. Know the Lord
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the
greatest, saith the Lord; for I
will forgive their iniquity, and
I will remember their sin no
more” (Jer. 31:33-34).
In every way, this new co
venant emphasizes the personal
relationship between God and
man which shall prevail from
this time forward. The law,
which had been written in Mo
saic times on tables of stone, is
now to be written upon men’s
hearts. There will be no need
for anyone to teach his neigh
bor about the Lord, for all
shall know Him from the least
to the greatest. And God will
forgice the iniquity of the sin
ner and remember his sin no
more.
The new covenant is much
more spiritual than the old.
Men’s hearts are more closely
attuned to God’s will because
his law will become a part of
their very nature and they will
know God from within their
own souls. But most important
of all, God will deal directly
with sin In each individual life.
There will no longer be need
for elaborate rituals and sacri
ficial services, but God Him
self will forgive sin. This is, of
cour.se, the prophetic ideal of
religion in contrast with the
priestly or sacerdotal ideal
which places so much empha
sis on the rite and its correct
performance.
Letters lo
Ihe Editor
Dear Editor:
The Georgia Papers tell us
lovely Mrs. Jack L. Elliott has
been called to the Heavenly
Home.
First, we knew her as little
George Smith of Snapping
Shoals, school girl, winsome
and sweet, a girl now married
to splendid .lack L. Elliott,
merchant and mayor.
Their home stately and spac
ious, doors on magic hinges,
swaying, gaiety ana generous
to a never failing hospitali
ty.
As mother, tender, patient
and wondrously kind. She was
blessed with a sunshine heart
and a soul of song.
So, precious George, now
“anchored in Ure Infinite”. We
look, with glad eyes, “up yon
der”, our dreams of your image
that blossoms a rose in the
deeps of our heart.
Lynda Lee Bryan
Box 134
Talbotton, Georgia
i Soviet Agriculture
Lags Far Behind U.S.
Despite 1959 Boasts
I
ly LEO $. MALLARD
“We will burv you.” These words of Nikita S. Krushchev
jarred complacent America and the world several years
'back. Todav Khrushchev is finding it increasingly difficult
to keep his promises in at least one respect. This is the
sphere of agricultural competition with the United btates.
During his 1959 visit to the ’
United States he forecast in a
television address that the So
viet Union would overtake the .
United States in industrial pro
duction within the next 10 to
12 years, “while in agriculture
this will be accomplished much
earlier.”
The Soviet Union’s current
agricultural difficulties have
caused Mr. Khruschev to mod
erate and tone down earlier ]
boasts that the Soviet Union
soon would overtake the Unit
ed States in agricultural pro
duction.
In his marathon report to the
agricultural plenum of the
Communist Party’s Central
Committee in Moscow earlier
this year, Mr. Khruschev was
compelled to admit that the
Soviet Union is still “consid
erably behind the United
States” in agricultural produc
tion.
However, Western experts
on the Soviet Union warn
against complacency. They
point out that the Soviet Un
ion’s over-all growth rate is
higher than that of the United
States. It is expected to remain
at around 6 per cent through
the 1960’5.
While the Soviet Union has
maintained an impressive in
dustrial growth rate, its agri
cultural growth has fallen
short of the ambitious goals
set by Mr. Khrushchev. Now
1980 is set as the target year
The National Outlook
BY RALPH ROBEY
Legislative Log Jam
The nation has entered a
new fiscal year and not a single
appropriation bill has been
passed by the Congress. A few
bills have gone through the
House and some through the
Senate, but it has not been pos
sible to have a conference to
work out the differences. This
has been because the chairman
of the two appropriation com
mittees have been having a
squabble as to where the con
ference should take place.
Both of these chairmen are
octogenarians, and for them to
disagree on this point appears
rather silly. But this does not
change the basic fact that
never before in modern times
has the United States had to
start a new fiscal year without
any of the appropriation re
quests having been acted upon
by the Congress. The govern
ment, of course, is operating
under a joint congressional re
solution continuing last year’s
appropriations.
This is merely one example
of the incredible log jam now
facing the Congress.
The only big top-priority
bill that has been disposed of
was the farm measure. The
Administration lost and the
defeat was blamed upon the
Republicans. It is true that all
but one Republican member
voted against the bill—and that
one has been redistricted out
of office—but many Democrats
also opposed the Administra
tion plan because they thought
it gave the government too
much power.
The tax bill has passed the
House in a form which the
President said at the time was
satisfactory. When the mea
sure got before the Senate Fi
nance Committee, however,
Treasury Secretary Dillon re
commended a series of changes
the net effect of which would
have been to bring it back to
the original Administration
proposal. It has now been an
nounced by the chairman of
that committee, Senator Byrd,
that if unanimous agreement is
not reached by July 18 the bill
will be put aside and the com
mittee will take up the Trade
Expansion Act. The Senator
also said that this time sched
ule was with the approval of
the White House. As a result
of this delay it appears im
probable that the tax bill can
possibly be ready for submis
sion to the Senate until so close
to Labor Day that passage is
highly unlikely.
The Trade Expansion Act
was passed by the House in
the form wanted by the Ad
ministration, and this was re-
Thursday. July 28, 1982
when every Soviet citizen will
be able to get an egg a day!
According to United States
Department of Agriculture
statistics, the Soviet Union's
seven-year agricultural plan
begun in 1958 demanded a 70
per cent increase in production
by 1965.
This envisaged a 20 per cent
increase by 1961. But accord
ing to these statistics, 1961
production was six per cent less
than that of 1958.
Soviet farm production, ac
cording to the Soviet’s own
journal Voprosy Ekonomiki, is
20 to 25 per cent less than
that of the United States, and
30 per cent less per head of
population.
A recent issue of the journal
claims the Soviet Union is
ahead of the United States in
production of wheat, potatoes,
sugar beets, milk, butter and
wool, but lags in production of
maize, cotton, meat, eggs, fruit
and vegetables. The journal
concedes that American meat
production is two to three
times as high per head as m
the Soviet Union.
American statistics paint a
darker picture of Soviet agri
cultural production. After a
detailed analysis of 1960 So
viet production, the United
Department of Agriculture
claimed late last year that
American farm production tops
that in the Soviet Union by 60
per cent.
garded in Washington as a
great victory. This gives the
President unparalled power to
reduce tariffs and authorizes
the government to aid firms
and workers who are hurt by
imports. There is great ob
jection to these aid provisions,
and no small amount of oppo
sition to the increased tariff
cutting powers. The Senate Fi
nance Committee plans to have
four weeks of hearings and it
will take another week or so
to get a bill ready to report. It
is assumed that some changes
will be made in the aid provi
sions, but no one is in a posi
tion to forecast what they will
be.
Aid to education is regarded
as dead in so far as this Con
gress is concerned. It did not
have to much chance beibra
the U. S. Supreme Court’s de
cision on school prayers, and
it is now generally believed
that decision completely eli
minated the possibility of pass
ing such a measure.
Medical care for the elderly
through Social Security is in
trouble but still is given about
a fifty-fifty chance of being
passed in some form. All types
of compromises are being of
fered, and one of these may
win enough support to get a
bill through the Congress.
Now, quite a few bills have
been passed and some of them
have been of great importance
—increasing the federal debt
limit to S3OB billion, and ex
tending the present 52 percent
corporate tax, are examples.
Many other important measures
are in the legislative mill. But
those discussed above were the
basic program of the Admin
istration. To say that the rec
ord on these has been dismal is
an understatement. Never has
there been a worse log jam in
the United States Congress.
Camp Canoe Mooring
Okay, here’s the problem.
You’re camping on a rocky
ledge so high it’s impossible to
haul your canoe up on it.
You’ve got to leave her in the
water . . . but how to do you
keep her from smashing up
against rocks if a storm comes
up. Simple (if you know this
tip): Cut two 10-inch diamet
er straight saplings, each long
er than the canoe. Trip smooth.
Lash them together at ends.
Now run your shore mooring
line around the whole works.
Tie it in a loop that encircles
canoe and logs and las’ to
shore support. Logs act as a
fender and wave buffer. Even
in violent storms, canoe rests
gently in log slip while insidt
log beats against rocks.