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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
Housewives to Have More
Choice in Fresh Meats
The next few years will see sweeping
changes in the merchandising of fresh
meats.
The housewife in the future can expect
to find fresh meats in different cuts and
different sizes than she has been used to
in the past. This will include more boning,
more uniformity, more tenderizing, new
packaging and greater shelf-life. The
changes will be comparable to those which
have been made in recent years in pro
cessed meats such as sausage and pre
packaged luncheon meats.
Mr. Homer R. Davison, of the American
Meat Institute makes an unusual point.
As he sees it, “There is broad evidence that
the housewife feels insecure at the fresh
meat counter. It is a product of which in
dividuals are critical because of their great
interest. It is my sincere belief that a
study to learn how best to undertake an
improvement at the point of sale to stim
ulate consumer confidence is needed.” So
he suggests that a task force of knowledge
able people be named to accomplish this
task.
This heavy emphasis on consumer wants,
needs and attitudes is significant. For, in
our highly competitive economy, the con
sumer is boss — at the meat counter and
all the other places where goods are sold.
Let's Give Aid
Where Aid Is Needed
Fading hopes that the Congress of the
US may yet reassert its Constiutional au
thority to decide how much of the tax
payers’ money is to be spent for what are
somewhat reinflated by recent actions of
. both House and Senate.
First, the apparent distaste of both
houses for further coddling of Red satel
lites on either trade or aid — as reflected
in a House committee vote to restrict trade
with Poland and Yugoslavia and the Sen
ate vote to slash US aid to Communist
countries.
Second, and more recently, is the en
couraging Senate vote of 74-13 to provide
the full amount, $491 million, asked by
the Air Force to speed the RS-70 first-strike,
supersonic bomber program. The White
House, in sharp disagreement with this
branch of the service on defense policy,
had cut the request back to sl7l million
for development of an experimental model
rather than approving the USAF plea for
a complete weapons system based on this
2,000 mile an hour plane.
In passing an overall military appropri
ations bill by a vote of 88 to 0 for $48,-
429,221,000, the largest in peacetime his
tory, the Senate authorization is $589,730,-
000 above that of the House, and $522,-
221,000 higher than the Administration re
quest.
The greater part of this difference, of
course, is represented by the Senate's res
toration of funds for the RS-70 program.
And, in view of the growing realization of
the shocking futility of continued foreign
aid to Communist countries, or to friendly
countries on the massive scale of the re
construction years, it should not be dif
ficult for the House to meet the Senate
defense figure —by transferring a little
foreign aid to the US aid column.
Their Success Is
America's Security
Formal education no longer ends with
a college or university degree.
In this present, swiftly-changing world
in which it is impossible for our educational
institutions to keep abreast of the dizzy
pace and infinite detail of our advancing
technology, progressive manufacturers and
industrialists are increasingly taking a hand
in high-level vocational education to sup
plement basic college training in engi
neering and the liberal arts.
Thus, while Yale University makes no
locks and keys (not even Phi Beta Kappa
keys), the Yale lock people do go in for
higher education — in their chosen field.
Eighteen young specialists, carefully se
lected by the company's distributors, can
attest to this. Cloistered for two weeks at
the Hilton Inn at Tarrytown, N. Y., they
have successfully completed the third an
nual. 100-hour, lecture and cram course
in architectural builders’ hardware.
This glimpse of just one of the educa
tional activities of a single industry, sug
gests, at least, the tremendous scope of
advanced and specialized education now
being provided by business at large. The
need to keep step with the tempo of change
is obvious But it is especially heartening
to know that our business leaders realize
there is no better investment in their own
and America’s future than the man who
wants to know more about his job
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Food With A View
Food has always been improved, we
have believed, by the addition or presence
of love — cooked with loving hands and
that sort of thing. Writers as varied as
Thomas Wolfe and Omar Khayyam have
remarked on the relationship. The latter’s
description of paradise as "a loaf of bread,
a jug of wine, and thou” is familiar to all.
But it seems that the scenery, as well
as the company, is also important to the
enjoyment of food. At least that is the
contention of Jerome Klein in a new book,
“Views to Dine By,” just issued by Crown.
It pictures and describes “panoramic” res
taurants in 50 countries.
While many of them are famous spots
atop places like Radio City in New York
and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a surprising
number are in comparatively small places.
The American listings include restaurants
in Brookdale, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Sau
salito, California; Ridgefield, Connecticut;
Highlands, New Jersey; Alexander Bay and
Waverly, New York
“I find it difficult,” writes Klein, “to
rate restaurants by the food they serve —
or even by the price they charge for a
meal. These are as changeable as the weath
er, the disposition of the cook, or today’s
market price for squash.
“But the view — it may change only
its mood . . . the view that lingers for
ever in your memory is a possession no
man can steal, no trouble or misfortune
take away, and which calls you to return
once again and relax in its beauty. Sharing
a view is like sharing a dream . . .”
With this we agree. A good view with
good food is nice. But if we ever have to
choose between bad food with a good
view and good food with a bad view, we’ll
take the latter and dream about something
else.
"Dropout" — A Tragic
Epidemic Among High
School Boys and Girls
The “dropout,” the boy or girl who
leaves school before graduation, is one of
the nation's most costly and frustrating
educational problems.
Educators, parents and civic leaders
have sounded the alarm, but no one has
come up yet with an effective solution—
that will encourage our youngsters to re
turn to the classroom once they have pre
maturely decided to leave it.
One city, Chicago, with a dropout rate
of close to 40 percent of students who en
ter high school, is making a head-on at
tack through an experimental school for
youngsters aged 14 and older who are be
hind in school. To revive lagging interest
in learning, it presents job-oriented sub
jects so each student may quickly learn
employment skills, and local industry co
operates by providing part-time jobs which
can lead to advancement for the student
who learns his lessons.
A survey just completed by Ripon Col
lege, Ripon, Wis., indicates that the extra
curricular costs of a so-called “free” high
school education prompt many students to
forsake the classroom. More than 25 per
cent of nearly 1,000 high school principals
who participated in the survey ranked
these costs among the top five causes of
dropouts.
Autos, class rings, invitations, proms,
sporting equipment, costly formals and
other wardrobe, were often costing as
much or more than the tuition charged
by many private prep schools. Principals
reported students paying as much as SSOO
to SI,OOO for auto expenses and class trips.
The other major factors listed in the sur
vey were lack of academic desire, lack of
family interest, mental inability and low
reading attainment.
It s obvious that there is no one single
approach to this shocking national loss
of talent and ability, but it is equally ob
vious that it is everybody’s problem. As
parents we can help enkindle and maintain
the enthusiasm of our own children for
school and the value of what they can
learn there. As citizens we can investigate
dropout in our own school district, and
support measures to put an end to it.
The problem is a national one, but its
solution is local. If all the “home towna"
sought solutions in their own communities,
the dropout malady would vanish.
CHURUBUSCO. IND., TRI-COUNTY
TRUTH: “For a nation to remain free, its
people must take the responsibility to keep
that God-given freedom. What are vou
going to do about it? If you think you
are too busy, remember Hungary, Tibet and
Poland. Rearrange your schedule to fulfill
your responsibility for the preservation of
freedom. It is your life you want to save,
as well as that of your loved ones and
your country. Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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Ezekiel Pleads for Repentance
Bible Material: Ezekiel 1:1-
3; 2:1-7; 3:4-5, 10-11; 11:16-19;
18.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
130; Memory Selection: Repent
and turn from all your trans
gressions, lest iniquity be your
ruin. Ezekiel 18:30.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Am I Responsible?
Young People - Adult Topic:
A Call to Repentance.
Last week we studied about
the collapse of Judah in the
reign of Jehoiachin. The down
fall came because of the peo
ple’s persistent following of
evil. We saw the frightfull
ness of the destruction that
overtook Judah from the power
ful Babylonian armies, and the
social collapse which led to
exile and to captivity.
Through all of this, one can
see the significance of t h e
Christian belief in God who re
veals Himself in and through
history.
Today’s lesson follows
through with the thought that
corrupt Judah was led into cap
tivity because of her sin. It was
to be Ezekiel’s mission and min
istry to call the exiled nation to
repentance. National disaster
and deportation forced God’s
people to face the results of
their sin, and in this the pro
phet saw a new opportunity to
plead for the people to be peni
tent and to seek God’s forgive
ness.
Repentance is always the
first requirement if we would
find the peace and protection
of God.
Today, nations as well as in
dividuals need to seek forgive
ness through repentance. Round
about us everywhere are signs
of impending danger which will
force social disaster upon the
world unless there is a reawak
ened consciousness of evil and
its awful results. Ours is a
world, like that of Ezekiel’s
day, which has seen the depor
tation of people in modern
theaters of war. Frightful con
ditions exist in areas of con
tinual social and racial injus
tice. Youth need to be awaken
ed to the fact that they must
repent of their misdeeds and
recognize that they are respon
sible citizens in their com
munity.
Every person is responsible
tu God for the deeds of his own
life, and must therefore ans
wer to Him even as Judah did
long ago.
Our lesson today is taken
from the book of the Prophet
Ezekiel and gives us an insight
into the prophet’s mind and
heart as he dealt with the peo
ple of Judah. Like Isaiah, Eze
kiel at his call to prophecy had
a vision of the glory of the
Lord, and like all of the pro
phets before him he was call
ed to proclaim the judgment of
God.
Ezekiel received his call in
Babylonia in a vision of t h e
throne-chariot of the Lord.
“Now it came to pass in t h e
thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, in the fifth day of t h e
month, as I was among t h e
captives by the river of Che
bar, that the heavens were op
ened, and I saw visions of God.”
The thirtieth year has been
taken to mean the thirtieth
year of Ezekiel’s life, or the
thirtieth year since the reform
of King Joash, or as a recon
ciliation between the prediction
of the forty-year exile in Eze
kiel (4:6) and the seventy-year
exile in Jeremiah (25:12). I*
has also been suggested that if
Ezekiel had had some hand in
editing his book at a particular
time, “the thirtieth year” may
refer to the date of the com
pletion of his book, or three
years after his last dated oracle
(27:19). Each idea is but a con
jecture and none adds appreci
able to the historical narrative.
“The river of Chebar” was
a canal which left the Euphra
tes above Babylon and flowed
southward, passing Nippur and
entering the Euphrates again
near Erech. It was in this place
mat Ezekiel, in company with 1
Tuth
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his captive people, saw “visions
of God.” The expression sug
gests majestic, striking visions.
The form used here is the su
i perlative. What Ezekiel saw was
beyond the realm of the na
tural and material. It was a di
vine revelation of God and the
majesty of his person.
The Book of Ezekiel begins
by telling us that the narrative
was based upon a supernatural
revelation of God whose will
must be obeyed.
The name “Ezekiel” means
“God strengthens” and in the
, very root meaning of his name
we see the reason for the vis
ion which he had by the Che
bar. God was using this par
ticular revelation of Himself to
show Ezekiel that in the pro
phecies He would strengthen
him, and that He woul' uphold
him. “The hand of the Lord
was there upon him” (verse 3)
is Ezekiel's way of expressing
the tremendous impact and im
pression of the Lord upon him,
and his vivid consciousness of
God’s presence in the vision. We
are told that thirteen Hebrew
manuscripts read “upon me”
instead of “upon him,” and this
would seem to indicate that
probably the prophet, and not
an editor, was writing this him
self and pointing out how per
sonal was this encounter with
God.
Ezekiel was a man of God,
and for all who are such there
are always visions of the Al
mighty who chooses to reveal
Himself to those who will do his
will.
The vision of God which Eze
kiel had brought him into re
lationship with a God who was
not only visible, but who spoke
to the prophet in no uncertain
terms. God chose to speak to
Ezekiel by addressing him as
“Son of man,” a title which we
often use in referring to Jesus
Christ. However, in Ezekiel the
term “Son of man” refers to a
mortal. It was the usual term
which God employed in ad
dressing his servant Ezekiel,
being used some eighty-seven
times throughout the prophecy.
Psalms 8:4 gives us an idea
of the connotation of the term
“Son of man” as used in refer
ence to Ezekiel: “What is man.
that thou art mindful of him’
and the son of man that thou
visitest him?”
Ezekiel certainly recognized
himself to be a man — full of
man’s failures and sins, frail,
weak and mortal — but when
God called him “Son of man”
he took on new dignity. He
could not then doubt that the
hand of God was upon him and
that he was capable of great
things. Perhaps this latter idea
(for Jesus was without sin)
was in the mind of Christ when
he applied the term “Son of
man” to himself. He would thus
share in our common mortality
and declare his dependence on
God the Father, doing the will
of Him that had sent him.
God had a message to give to
the prophet. He said, “I send
thee to the children of Israel, to
a rebellious nation that hath re
belled against me: they and
their fathers have transgressed
against me, even unto this very
day.” This message from God
was not easy to receive since
it involved a tremendous re
sponsibility and challenge.
We can imagine that Ezekiel
might complain about the dif
ficulty of the task and the ap
parent hopelessness of the sit
uation. Perhaps he asked him
self why he must go to the re
bellious and the stubborn, to
those who had already resolv
ed not to heed his message. Had
not the people got themselves
into these awful circumstances?
Was it not too late now that
they found themselves in exile
—the captives of the powerful
Babylonians? Never th eless.
whatever questions there may
have been in the mind of the
prophet, he knew that God was
speaking to him. and that there'
was nothing to do but to obey, i
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Music Leaders to
Stage Clinic at
Lake Junaluska
Music leaders in Georgia
Methodist Churches will parti
cipate in a regional church in
stitute, July 29 to August 3 at
Lake Junaluska, N. C. T h e
clinic will be one of four such
meetings held throughout the
Methodist Church next sum
mer.
Sponsored by the Division of
the Local Church of the Meth
odist Board of Education, the
institute will be open to all
Methodist in the Southeast.
Letters To
The Editor
August 6 1962
Mr. Leo S. Mallard
Assistant to Publisher
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Leo:
Just a brief note to thank you
for judging our Beauty Con
test last Saturday. I think you
made a substantial contribution
to our Regata and I incerely
appreciate your relieving me
personally of any responsibili
ty in making the very difficult
selection.
From the comments at the
dance Saturday night ana from
conversations with the new Ex
plorer Queen, there is no ques
tion that the girl selected will
be a credit to the Explorer
movement in the Atlanta Area
Council.
I appreciate your taking the
additional time to make pic
tures of the Queen and her
Court. I am sure these will
provide worthwhile mementos
for the girls and the others as
sociated with the Beauty Con
test.
Again, my sincerest thanks
for all your assistance. I hope
we have the opportunity to
work together again soon.
Sincerely,
Richard L. Meek
Advisor, Explorer
Council Cabinet
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Garland Byrd Io Be Honored
At Big Appreciation Dinner
A crowd numbering into the
thousands is expected to attend
a $lO a plate birthday ana
appreciation dinner in honor ot
Lieutenant Governor Garland
T. Byrd next week in Reynolds.
The dinner, being given bv
Byrd’s friends and supporters
throughout Georgia, is
duled Thursday (August 9)
from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. It will
be held at the Byrd home
And, apparently, it will bring
political stumping in the state
to somewhat of a halt lor the
day. Almost every candidate
for state office- including Gu
bernatorial candidates Marvin
Griffin and Carl Sanders —
have indicated they will be
present to honor the Lieuten
ant Governor.
The appreciation — birthday
dinner was originally schedul
ed for July 16, Byrd’s birth
day, but was postponed until
August 9 on doctor’s orders.
Physicians said Byrd, w h o
suffered a heart attack May 10,
would not have been sufficient
ly recovered by the July date
to participate in such an af
fair.
The Lieutenant Governor is
expected to make a short talk
at the dinner. Friends say he
“will have some interesting
comments.”
Mr. William A. Fickling, Sr.,
of Macon, chairman of t h e
Finance and Advisory Com
mittee for the event, says the
dinner is designed as a means
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by which supporters can con
tinue their identity as t h e
“Byrd for Governor” group. He
says the event will be an an
nual affair.
Mr. Fickling says funds will
be retained by a Trust Com
mittee composed of a person
from each of the state’s 10 Con
gressional districts, and the
money will be used “toward
the furtherance of Garland *
splendid political career.”
Mr. Fickling says a detailed
record will be kept of t h e
names of those participating
and an accounting made to any
proper interested party on re
quest.