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CITY OF COVINGTON Folßts ert of Geor , io _ Y .„ $3 S 0 Ctass
Chamber Os Commerce
Membership Drive Is
Progressive Move
The auakening is slow, but it is coming!
New life is surging forth in Covington and
Newton County and the potential growth
of this area is unbelievable. The Covington-
Newion County Chamber of Commerce this
week took a giant step in the direction of
coping with the area growing pains as it
launched a membership drive with a lunch
eon meeting on Monday.
Under the able leadership of President
William B. (Bill) Thompson and John Hall,
newly appointed executive director, the
Covington - Newton County Chamber of
Commerce is headed in the right direction.
New members are being sought from every
business in the county so that every con
ceivable part of this economic area will be
represented in the Chamber.
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce
Membership Meeting. Bill Hoffman, owner
of Radio Station WGFS and president of
the Covington Rotary Club, gave some in
dication of the growing bend of this coun
ty. Last year Newton County had increased
its population enough to mow our license
plate from 43 to 38. Newton was one of
the few counties in Georgia to gain popu
lation. Two years ago a survey indicated
that Covington alone would have a popu
lation of 25,000 within 10 years.
Snapping Shoals Electric Membership
Corporation recently completed a study of
the growth possibilities of its service area
which indicates that the number of cus
tomers will double In the next 10 years.
Experts making the survey said that it
would be advisable to re-examine the
growth every three years because there are
indications that the growth could accelerate
even more rapidly than present trends in
dicate.
Interstate Highway 20 to Augusta will
One-Room Schoolhouse
Returns —On Wheels
Parents, teachers, P-TA’s and school
boards across the nation are beginning to
discover that relief from over-rowded
school rooms and half-time sessions need
not wait on a painful, slow-moving big
figure bond issue.
It’s done by mobile auxiliary classrooms
that are set up in tire school yard — with
out need of buying more real estate —
connected with the sewer and power lines
and ready for lessons in a matter of days.
For quick delivery, these standardized 20
by 40 Adn-a-Glase rooms are moved in
lengthwise half-sections over the roads on
their own wheels from the nearest of 12
Divco-Wayne plants. Set on jacks or mason
ry foundations or left on their wheels
(where a roving, nature-study classroom is
wanted), they surround 35 pupils with
ultra-modern facilities, furniture and equip
ment, including individual air conditioning
and heating systems and boys’ and girls'
washrooms.
Chicago tried out two of these new
fangled classrooms last January. The kids
loved them. So did the teachers. The school
authorities and the taxpayers w ere equally
lyrical. Now they have 150 of them in
operation and David J. Hefferman, assistant
superintendent of schools, hails them as
“an immediate answer to our double-shift
problem.**
He notes, too. that since they are mo
bile, the Add-a-Class rooms will enable
the city to keep up with the problem of
shifting population — which faces many
smaller communities, especially where a
smgle new industrial plant can change the
town map. Frequently, Divco-Wayne will
sell four to five units to a community along
with one set of wheels to facilitate changing
location. New York plans to add 500 mobile
classrooms and expects to relieve over
crowding in 70 of the city's schools by
September.
The swift and widespread acceptance
of this startling new idea should also be
good news to those who have been sad
dened by the passing of the one-room
schoolhouse in which America got its start
toward greatness. There’s no longer any
doubt about it The one-room school is
coming back in a big way. And we hope the
old-timers won’t mind that it is a lot fan
cier and has modern plumbing — inciud
iag an electrically-cooled drinking foun
tam — insteod of the “out-back” and the
”ater bucket.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
be a big asset toward speeding the growth
of Newton County. When this project is
completed many people will move their
homes to our prosperous county in order
to avoid the congestion of Atlanta. Growth
is coming!
In order to progressively keep in stride
and fully realize the potential that lies
here, Covington and Newton County must
make preparations, make changes, do some
house cleaning, and our proud people must
speak well of and sell Newton County and
its assets whenever and wherever the op
portunity arises.
This must be a united effort and the
Covington-Newton County Chamber of
Commerce is the organization through
which this progress can and must be made.
We sincerely urge the business and pro
fessional men of Newton County to join
the Chamber of Commerce and work to
gether to help our county fully realize the
potential that lies in the growth that is
inevitable.
The aim of the Chamber of Commerce
is the stimulation of a healthy business at
mosphere. Among its membership are men
who represent a cross-section of Newton
County. They are members of our county’s
churches, civic clubs, service organizations,
governmental groups, and they are our
county’s business leaders.
The Covington-Newton County Cham
ber of Commerce is to be commended for
the work it is doing and its plans for the
future. Newton County can not stand still.
It must go forward progressively — or
backward. The Chamber of Commerce
needs the support of all Newton Countians
and we urge that this support be given
whole heartedly.
After All, Encyclopedias
Are a Part of the Home
Few people ever go to a bookstore and
say: “I want to buy an encyclopedia.”
And yet, somehow, millions of Ameri
cans ten years old and upward are refer
ring to these scholarly tomes in their homes
every day and night of the year. In fact,
in these times of swift geographic and
political changes, of a breathless pace in
technology and scientific discovery, of in
creasing competition of youth for college
entrance and of their elders for the re
spect of their peers, the multi-volume com
pendium of human experience and world
ly wisdom ranks somewhere between the
Bible and the dictionary in the daily strug
gle to keep soul and body intact.
But how do these vital volumes get
into our homes? Who sells them—and how?
How do you suppose Abraham Lincoln was
persuaded to buy his set of the first edi
tion of The Encyclopedia Americana in the
1840's?
Plainly, this is no job for the fast-talker
equipped with steel-toed shoes and a brass
bound ego. To present this adult reference
work of 30 volumes requires a man not
only of scholarly attainments but of under
standing of both human nature and hu
man aspirations, of the timeless parental
urge to give our offspring a better start
than we had. Equally important is an ethical
outlook by which he considers his work
as professional as that of a doctor, lawyer,
engineer — even a minister.
Vincent E. Sutliff, president of The
Americana Corporation and who has come
up through the ranks, remains the head
salesman for America's first native en
cyclopedia. And it is doubtless his prestige,
example and dedication that attract men
of high caliber to what he regards as a
task force in adult education. They don’t
ring doorbells, they make appointments
with families who want to hear their story
— this year about the new 1962 edition.
They prefer to call when everyone is at
home, they don't sell books — they ex
plain how to use The Americana in busi
ness and social life, in school work and
in self-education after the school years
have gone by.
If these men sell anything, they sell
hope and ambition and encouragement and
confidence — often in quarters where these
items are in short supply. And the fact
that people buy their books helps all who
be"? it by a rising cultural climate in
the nation.
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SOUR WEEKLY dO LESSON FOK
UNDAY SCHOOL
Judah Conquered and Exiled
Bible Material: 2 Kings 24 -
25; Jeremiah 40:1-6; 42:1-6.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
137:1-6; Memory Selection:
They sow the wind, and they
shall reap the whirlwind. Hoeea
8:7.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Could It Happen Here?
Young People - Adult Topic:
Conquered and Exiled
Perhaps it would be well to
recall at the outset of this les
son that this quarter, July -
September, deals with later He
brew history and the prophets,
and completes the study of He
brew for the present six-year
cycle.
The first unit, which was
completed last Sunday, dealt
with “A People in Peril,” and
already we have seen something
of the disaster suffered by the
Hebrew people, and of God’s
deliverance.
These lessons to date have
given us an illustration of what
can happen to nations, and
what can happen to us as a peo
ple.
The messages of the prophets
speak to our times with signi
ficant meaning on such com
plex subjects as war, peace, ra
cial prejudice, and the treat
ment of displaced persons.
One must not be unmindful
that w r hen God spoke through
the prophets of old. He was
speaking timeless truth which
is also relevant today.
We begin with the second
unit in this series of lessons to
day and this unit is called “A
People Uprooted.” Today’s les
son shows the collapse of Ju
dah in the reign of Jehoiachin
which came as the climax of
the people’s persistent follow
ing of evil. The frightfulness of
the destruction that came upon
Judah from the powerful Baby
lonian armies, and the social
collapse w'hich led to exile and
capticity stand out in bold
relief as a warning for all fu
ture generations.
This portion of Hebrew’ his-
I lory emphasizes the signifi
; cance of the Christian belief in
God who continues to reveal
! Himself in and through history.
Jehoiachin’s father had reign
ed for eleven years. During his
reign Necho, king of Egypt, and
his army were annihilated at
Carchemish on the Euphrates.
This event had freed Jehoia
kim, his father, from the Egyp
tian suzerainty, but his free
dom was short lived because
when he attempted to resist the
Babylonian domination he
found himself faced with Ne
buchadnezzar and his army. The
king of Judah died before the
clash of arms, and left his son,
Jehoiachin. to deal with a des
perate situation.
Thus Jehoiachin came to the
throne to replace his father
Jehoiakim. He is a man to be
pitied for he inherited an im
possible situation, with the Ba
bylonian army besieging the
I city while he had no resources.
He was a mere youth of eigh
teen years when he ascended
the throne in Jerusalem which
I he held for only three months.
According to Jeremiah (22:-
24) he was a favorite with the
| people. There must have been
j something attractive about him,
i for although his reign was
I brief, he was not forgotten ■
' (Ezekiel 19:8-9), and his Baby
lonian captors had mercy upon
1 him. Nevertheless, 2 Kings is
careful to tell us that “he did
that which was evil in t h e
sight of the Lord” (24:9). We
are told that he followed in his
father’s footsteps. Further, there
was doubtless the cruel influ
ence of his mother. Nehushta,
the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem. Perhaps she was the
real “ruler” for this brief per
iod (Jeremiah 13:18).
It would seem that evil in
fluences encompassed the
young king who ascended the
throne amid the terrible situ
ation in national affairs.
Habakkuk had prophesied of
the dire turn of events. Every
where the prophecy was coming
true. Corruption and irreligion
were evident on all sides with
in the kingdom. The Chaldeans
were at the gate. Nebuchadnez
zar. king of Babylon, came
against the city to besiege it.
Jehoiachin and his mother, and
his servants and his princes and
his officers, were carried away
captive. To these were added
“all tire mighty men of valor,
even ten thousand captives, and
all the craftsmen and smiths.”
None remained, we are told,
save the very poorest people
of the land.
Nebuchadnezzar also “car
ried out thence all the trea
sures of the house of the Lord,
and the treasures of the king’s
house.” He “cut in pieces all
the vessels of gold which Solo
mon, King of Israel, had made
in the temple of the Lord, as
the Lord had said.” Little re
mained in Jerusalem, yet per
haps the most important of all
was left —a prophet by the
name of Jeremiah. He, and he
alone, could have warded off
the terrible fate. He devoted
heart and soul to the salva
tion of the people. He alone
could have saved the people
from their awful fate, yet even
this last chance was thrown
away by unrepentant Judah.
In the hour of gravest dan
ger when disaster seems im
minent there is always the op
portunity of moral self-recov
ery.
Jehoiachin is a pathetic fig
ure in history. He arouses our
deepest compassion. Made for
better things, he might with a
better chance and a different
background have accomplished
great things. He was crushed by
the circumstances which had
built up under his father’s reign
and he appeared helpless in the
face of events.
There have been many Je
hoiachins in history and there
are many Jehoiachins today —
those who seem to have no real
chance in life, whose deepest
impulses and longings and as
pirations seem never to be sat
isfied. They suffer defeat when
perhaps they merit success.
They make us ask the age-old
question, “Why?” to which
there is no ready answer.
Though we may question the
justice of events such as those
described in this lesson, still
these events seem to cry out as
illustrative of a spiritual les
son to be learned. If there is
the possibility of moral self
recovery. then we may assume
that there is always something
left on which character can be
rebuilt; and with this rebuild
ing of character, comes the re
construction of life.
If hardship, deserved or
otherwise, can be accepted, if
lessons are learned, if the fu
ture is faced, this salvation is
(Laraest Coverage Any W eekly In The Siat4
Over 500,000
Mentally 111
Being Treated
More than 500,000 mentally
ill patients now are being
treated in state and local gov
ernment hospitals, and admis
sions of mental patients to gen
eral hospitals are at the rate
of 200,000 a year, the Health
Insurance Institute said today.
The Institute said many of
these persons have health in
surance provided by insurance
companies which customarily
protects against the costs of in
hospital treatment of nervous
and mental disorders.
"The insurance business for
many years has recognized
mental illness as an illness in
the same sense as physical ill
ness,” the Institute said. “Cov
erage for nervous and mental
disorders has been a feature of
many insurance company
health cost plans and policies
since before World War II.”
Insurance companies cur
rently provide hospital expense
insurance to more than 81 mil
lion persons, said the Institute.
Os this total, more than seven
out of every eight persons have
the same benefits for nervous
and mental disorders as for
other conditions.
Insurance companies also
provide major medical expense
insurance, with maximum ben
efits ranging up to SIO,OOO or
more, to some 36 million per
sons. An Institute survey of
group major medical policies
issued in 1961 showed that 91
per cent of the insured per
sons were covered for nervous
and mental disorders with the
coverage generally being pro
vided both in and out of hos
pital.
In addition, the Institute
said, 32 million workers who
have insurance company loss
of income coverage are eligible
to receive cash benefits to help
replace income lost due to men
tal illness, as well as for other
causes of disability.
An important feature of these
loss of income plans is that
benefits paid to help replace
wages are in addition to bene
fits available for medical costs
under other insurance. Mental
illness strikes hardest at per
sons in their productive years,
and workers who suffer from
nervous and mental conditions
annually lose over half a bil
lion dollars in earnings, said
the Institute.
State Hospital
Receives Shrimp
From Commission
Milledgeville State Hospital
received more than eleven
thousand pounds of illegally
possessed shrimp to feed its pa
tients during 1961, the State
Game and Fish Commission
said today.
Commission Director Fulton
Lovell said his department de
livered 11,100 pounds of edible
shrimp to the hospital in com
pliance with a Georgia law re
quiring that all confiscated
game and fish be donated to
charitable institutions.
“The shrimp were taken
from individuals who either
had caught them illegally or
oossessed them illegally,” Lo
vell said.
Charges were filed against
the violators in each case
and most of the defendents
pleaded guilty and paid fines.
Lovell said.
Department records show that
a total of 12,755 pounds of
shrimp were confiscated and
given to institutions during
1961.
The Salvation Army received
several hundred pounds for use
in its missions and Boys Estate,
near Darien, was given shrimp
on several occasions.
possible for the Individual, and
for the nation.
After Jehoiachin and his peo
ple had been carried away cap
tive to Babylon, the king of
Babylon made Mattaniah, h i s
father's brother, king in his
stead, and changed his name
to Zedekiah. This Zedekiah was
a full half brother to the He
hoahaz who had been carried
away captive to Egypt by Pha
raoh - Necho in 608 B. C., and
it would therefore be supposed
that he would be a safe anti-
Egyptian. However, Zedekiah
proved unable to resist the pro-
Egyptian party which gained
strength mostly because Nebu
chadnezzar had unwisely trans
ported the more responsible
elements of the populations to
Babylonia. Apart from the
family of Shaphan, the scribe
who had been prominent in
Josiah’s time, the king seem
ed to have had no one left who
was capable of supporting the
inspiring judgments of the pro
phet Jeremiah.
Kadar's Liberalism
Is Currently Best
Thing Envisioned
By LEO L MALLARD
In Budapest these days the Hungarian people have not
forgotten the uprising of October - November, 1956. but
they view the action with varying mental reservation. Gen
erally speaking, they have fallen in with the regime’s effort
at conciliation and are “doing the best they can with what
they have to do with.”
Premier Janos Kadar is op
erating the Hungarian govern
ment under a program of
“guided liberalism” which has
given some relief from the
harsh Communist line of pre
uprising days. But, it is evident
that this liberalism will not be
allowed to get out of hand.
Kadar’s government, which
has gone farther than any other
in Eastern Europe with de-
Stalinization, has been practic
ing moderation but not with
out misgiving and strong op
position within the party itself.
Kadar has adopted the line of
“who is not against us is with
us.”
With this policy, Kadar’s aim
has been to bring the party in
to closer, intimate contact with
the population which in large
part still preserves an extra
ordinary degree of aloofness.
The people feel that the “lib
eral line” is the best thing that
they can currently hope for.
Criticism and much grumb
ling has come from the Com
munists themselves. Their com
plaints turn on Kadar’s attitude
toward agriculture where he
places the needs of production
— and consequently of econom
ic aid and incentives — above
ideological considerations.
There also are complaints
about his insistence that all po
sitions in economic adminis
tration — industry or agricul
ture — or in government ser
vice, outside of essentially party
functions, to be open to non-
Communists and non-party
members on a purely “efficiency
first” basis.
In a recent speech Kadar
said, “the secret to all lies in
Time is What You Make of It
By Lora Laine
Extension Home Management
Specialist
University of Georgia
College of Agriculture
Time is only one of the re
! sources the homemaker is chal
lenged to manage if family
goals for better living are to
be reached. Time is a most im
portant resource in that none
of us ever seems to nave
enough of it to do all the things
we want to do.
We read and hear a great
deal about ways and means
for saving time but can this
really be done? It would be
nice if we could save a little
time here and there and put
it in a savings account. where
it would be lengthened out by
interest. But alas, unlike mon
ey, all we can do is spend time.
However, there are similarities
in principles for managing
money that might well be ap
plied to spending time.
The first similarity is that
we need to decide what it is
we really want from the use
of this resource—what is im
portant to us and whether we
are using our time in working
at the things we consider most
important. In other words we
need to establish goals and set
some priorities for spending
time.
Just as a money budget is a
guide for spending, not an in
flexible pattern into which
every penny must be fitted, so
is a time plan a guide for
spending time and not a sched
ule for every minute.
We think of good money
management as the use of
money for the purposes which
grant the most satisfactions for
all family members. We can
apply this same yardstick to
the use of time. In doing this
we consider alternatives uses
for each hour, day, week or
year.
Thus we establish a plan. It
may be only in our heads but
if we write the plan we will
be more firmly committed to
our decisions and spend less
time floundering around. We’ll
know what to do next. This
does not mean that revisions
of the plan won’t be necessary.
Circumstances vary and change
is constant which calls for ad
justments. However, we are
more likely to get the things
we want done, if we know pre
cisely what it is we want.
If you are one of those peo
ple who say, “My. I just don’t
know where my time goes—”,
perhaps a good begisfcing point
Thursday, August 2,1962
agriculture.” Without underes
timating industry, he added,
this is the field “in which wo
can find the greatest reserves
for development in which will
be decided whether harmony
can be achieved in the progress
of this country.”
Harmony, he declared, en
tailed in farming the forma
tion of a “uniform peasant
class” —a fusion not only of
the former village laborers and
the former middle peasants but
also of the former “Kalaks”
(wealthy farmers) many of
whom, he insists, are already
sincerely trying to “adopt
themselves to the life of the so
cialist village.”
Kadar’s demand for a union
of party and nonparty people in
the country-side and the party' l ?
declared a,m in industry of
“filling each post with the most
suitable man” has been strong
ly opposed by the doctrinaires.
They say this must lead to a
dangerous “dilution” of the
party’s influence which in turn
would weaken its hold on
power.
Equally opposed are those
Communists who hold substan
tial posts solely on the strength
of their records as party zea
lots. With the food production
situation as bad as it is in most
Communist countries, it seems
that the party elite would re
examine their doctrine of “any
thing goes as a means to an
end.”
Kadar's program seems
to be bringing out into the open
even some corruption in t h e
“impeccable” Communist stra
tegy.
for you is to keep a time re
cord for a few days. Keep it
long enough to make some
sound judgments about which
jobs are activities are taking
too much of your time and to
know where you can make ad
justments for better use of lime
in light of the objectives you
have established.
There are other resources we
have that will contribute to
better use of time. We have
varying amounts of energy,
knowledge, attitudes, interests,
abilities, skills, money, equip
ment, tools and community
facilities. Besides our own re
sources, let’s not forget other
family members’. If we are a
good manager we’ll have help.
Other family members should
be involved in making deci
sions about what is the most
important if the plan is to seem
fair to all and is to receive the
support of all.
After considering alternative
uses of our time, we finally
must make decisions. In other
words, formulate our plan by
choosing the alternatives that
will contribute the most under
the circumstances to better
living.
Home Gardeners
To Get Special
Attention on TV
Horticulture in the green
house. the field and the home
will be featured on the Grow
ing South on WGTV, Channel
8, next week.
C. D. Spivey, Extension hor
ticulturist, will demonstrate
some of the techniques for
growing greenhouse tomatoes,
Monday, August 6.
The fall garden will be fea
tured Wednesday, August 8,
when Frank Cates. Extension
horticulturist, will demonstrate
practices necessary for success
with the fall garden.
On Friday, the 10th, Gerald
Smith. Extension ornamental
horticulturist, will show prac
tices that will give longer life
to cut flowers.
Other programs of the week
will include a presentation by
Dr. Dale Tindell, from the
poultry department. University
of Georgia, showing the history
and development of the Vari
ous breeds of poultry. This will
be aired on Tuesday, August 7.
Dorsey Dyer, Extension for
ester, will present an inventory
of forest resources in Georgie
on Thursday, the 9th.