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PORTERDALE
PERSONALS
Mrs. Raymond Smith and
daughter, Susan, were week
end guests of her Barents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. B. Davis, and Mrs.
Frances Whitesell.
Sincere sympathy is extend
ed to Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Dennis in their bereavement at
the death of Mr. B. D. Winslett
of Atlanta. Georgia last week
end. Funeral services were
conducted on Tuesday morn
ing, February 19.
Friends of Tyrone Snow will
be interested that he entered
Prospect MYF
News Notes
Prospect MYF was called to or
der Sunday night by Elaine Al
len During the business meeting
members were thanked for tak
ing part on the Sunday morning
program. The Wednesday meeting
at Plantation Manor was discuss
ed and plans made for the pro
gram for the children. A social
was planned for Friday night.
Brenda Willingham was in
charge of the program with Faye
Knox giving, “The Church is God
at Work"; Elaine Allen, "The In
side Story"; Johnny Jolley,
‘‘Churchmanship is a Trust”, and
Alma Jo Simms read the scrip
ture from Ephesians 1:15-23
AI! young people are invited to
rome and participate in the MYF
on Sunday nights and enjoy the
social activities planned.
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Ardmore Hospital in Emory
University, Georgia on Monday,
February 25, for observation
and treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Har
deman spent Saturday in Ma
con, Georgia with their mother,
Mrs. Georgia Piper and Mrs.
Grace Walden, their sister.
Sincere sympathy is extend
ed to Mrs. Galloway Carrithers,
Mr. and Mrs. James Sullivan,
and other relatives in their be
reavement at the death of Mr.
Carrithers on Monday morn
ing, February 25,
Mrs. J. N. Allen visited rela
tives in Athens, Georgia from
Thursday through Sunday of
last week.
GIRL
SCOUT
NEWS
Troop 1063
Our last meeting was called
to order by Jane Hackney at
Mrs. Matocha’s home.
We had our business taken
care of first. Our group exami
nation was postponed. Tent
ative plans are made for March
1, 1963.
The reason we met at Mrs.
Matocha’s home was because
we made plum jelly, which is
one of the requirements for
our Foods Badge. Each girl got
to take a jar home.
While the jelly was cooling,
we practiced our skits that we
Atlanta 'soo'
Shaping Up
For March 1/
ATLANTA—Three winners
of the Daytona and Indianapolis
500-mile races are both entered
in the fourth annual Atlanta
500-mile Grand National
championship stock car race
Sunday, March 17, it was an
nounced by Nelson Weaver,
President of the Atlanta Inter
nationa] Raceway.
For Indianapolis winner Rod
ger Ward, the Atlanta race will
provide his first match against
the veteran stock car drivers
from NASCAR.
Ward (1962 Indy winner)
and 1952 Indy winner Troy
Ruttman will be driving Mer
cury cars for veteran racing
are going to have taped and
played on the radio during Girl
Scout Week.
The meeting was then adj
ourned.
Cathy Matocha,
Reporter
Brownie Troop 804
Our meeting of February 7
was called to order with all
members saying the Brownie
Promise. We had fun making
string paintings.
On February 14, Mrs. Jordan
and her committee had a nice
Valentine Party for us. We ex
changed Valentines, played a
game of pinning the heart on
Cupid, and sang.
At our meeting on February
21, we took orange juice cans
and made banks which we will
use for our dues at our meeting
during Friendship Week. We
were reminded to bring our
posters to the next meeting. We
hope some of these will be used
for display when we celebrate
Girl Scout Week.
Donna Simmons and
Jacqueline Digby
Reporters
Boy Scout
News
TROOP 207
PORTERDALE — Troop No. 207
of the Boy Scouts of America met
at five o’clock on Monday after
noon, Feb. 25, at the Scout Hut.
Those who attended were: Jack
Lee Gates, Scoutmaster; Grover
Lee Johnson, Senior Patrol Lead
er; Randy Digby, Anthony Edge.
Craig Hertwig, Larry Johnson, Joe
Mann, and Steve Piper.
We opened with the Scout Oath
and Pledge of Allegiance to the
Flag of the United States.
Grover Lee Johnson called the
roll and collected dues. We en
rolled six new members. They
were: Craig Hertwig, Joe Mann,
John Mann, Donny Moore, Tom
my Moore, and Gary Taylor. La
ter, our Scoutmaster told us of
plans to improve Ivy Park. We
formed two committees, one head
ed by Grover Lee Johnson and the
other by Randy Digby. We plan to
begin work this week.
We closed with the Scout Pray
er.
Steve Piper, Scribe
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Comedy Team in "Holiday on Ice"
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FUN ON TH ERUN — Ted Deeley and Johnny Leech made
their U. S. comedy debut with Holiday On Ice of 1963 when
it opened on February 23 at the Municipal Auditorium in
Atlanta. Laugh riots in Europe for the past seven years—
American audiences are in store for a new, fast and fantastic
barrage of skating fun this year.
engineer Bill Stroppe of Long
Beach, Calif.
Dewayne ‘Tinv’ Lund and
Marvin Panch are both entered
in the Atlanta 500 race, and
both scheduled, at this time, for
the same Ford which Lund
drove to victory in last Sun
day’s Daytona Beach classic.
Panch was originally sche
duled to drive the Ford, owned
by driver-mechanic Glen Wood,
but a sports car accident put
him in the hospital and Lund
was given given the ride on
Panch’s suggestion.
Reserved seat tickets and
race information for the March
17th Atlanta 500 are available
from the Atlanta Raceway off
ice, P. O. Box 1291, Atlanta 1,
Georgia, phone 522-2255.
Cynthia Housworth
Is a Winner in
Betty Crocker Bid
Cynthia A. Housworth of R.
L. Cousins High School, Cov
ington, Ga., has been named as
a winner here in the 1963 Betty
Crocker Search for the Ameri
can Homemaker of Tomorrow
and thus eligible for one of 102
scholarships totaling SIIO,OOO.
The Cousins School winner
ranked first on her school in
the knowledge and attitude
test given senior girls Dec. 4.
Her paper has been entered in
competition with those of other
state high school winners for
state-wide honors.
The State Homemaker of
Tomorrow will be named in
the spring. She will receive a
$1,500 scholarship from General
Mills, sponsor of the program.
A SSOO award will be made to
the second highest ranking
Homemaker of Tomorrow in
the state. The school of each
state winner will receive a set
of Encyclopeedia Britannica.
Later, State Homemakers of
Tomorrow with their advisors
will enjoy an expense-paid edu
cational tour of New York City,
Washington, D. C. and Colonial
Williamsburg, Va„ which will
culminate with the naming of
the 1963 All-American Home
maker of Tomorrow.
The national winner’s scho
larship will be raised to $5,000,
with second, third and fourth
place winners being granted
j $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 scho
larships, respectively.
East Newton PTA
To Present a
j 'Manless Wedding'
j The Program Committee of
the East Newton Elementary
i School PTA under the Chair
; manship of Mrs. Mattie L.
Woods has made positive plans
I for an evening of fun and
! merrymaking on Friday March
1, 1963 at 8 p. m. Mrs. Corene
J Brown will serve as Directress
j of this program. It is to be an
hour of great entertainment
I with the proceeds going for a
very worthy cause.
There will be some other
activities presented after the
Wedding; however, the wedd
ing itself would be the kind of
entertainment that will keep
you laughing throughout. The
committee feels that you would
rather see it than to be told
about it.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend. Plans are to
purchase a new piano for the
school as the project for the
1962-63 term.
Mrs. E. J. Smith, PTA Pre
sident, and other members of
the PTA would like to encour
age all parents and other in
terested persons to attend the
regular meetings of the East
Cancer Exhibit
At Georgia Power
Building Mar. 2-13
“Man Against Cancer" the Seat
tle World Fair exhibit that at
tracted more than 50,000 regis
tered visitors will be In Georgia,
March 215 on display in t h e
Georgia Power Building in At
lanta.
This dynamic and educational
display is free to the public and
will be open from 9 a. m. until
5 p. m. each day except Sunday
when it will be open from 1 until
5 p. m.
In Seattle the exhibit, which
evidences 25 years of man’s pro
gress against cancer, a disease
that strikes two of every three
families across the nation, at
tracted over 8.000 visitors a day.
In Philadelphia, the only other
city in which it has been seen,
there were more than 15,000 reg
istered as visitors.
Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor of the
City of Atlanta, honorary chair
man of the committee in charge
of the exhibit, said today, “This
gigantic display shows people
what has been accomplished and
what is happening in the fight -
cancer field. , . promising a future
when cancer will be controlled by
man.”
He urged school groups and
other organizations throughout the
Emergency Self
Help Training
Kits Are Issued
Georgia’s Program of Med
ical Self Help Training got a
shot in the arm this week with
a Statewide distribution to local
health departments of 600
Medical Self Help Training
kits. The program is part of a
national Civil Defense plan to
supply the public with adequ
ate preparatory information as
a key to survival in time of
national disaster. The newly
revised kits are available to all
groups interested in conducting
Medical Self Help Training
Programs in their own local
communities.
Each training kit. complete
in a compact carrying case,
contains teaching instructions,
film strips, and student mat
erials for teaching emergency
procedure when medical care is
not available. Eleven film
strips, given in one-hour less
ons, cover emergency proce
dure in vital areas such as rad
ioactive fallout and shelter,
care of the sick and injured,
and sanitation. A projector and
screen are included in the larger
of two types of kits now being
distributed. All persons comp
leting the Medical Self Help
Training Program receive dip
lomas. The training course also
can serve as complement in
American Red Cross First Aid
classes.
Georgia families can be pre
pared to be self sufficient in
health care during time of
national disaster. Distribution
of these kits will enable local
health departments to increase
the number of training prog
rams now available within a
community. Further informat
ion on the scheduling of a
Medical Self Help Program for
local classes can be obtained
from any of the 157 local hea
lth departments throughout the
State.
Newton PTA. We are in need
of the support of all persons
who are interested in the wel
fare of Children and Youth in
this school area. We feel sure
that other PTA groups would
make the same appeal.
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Georgia Physicians so Spur
Statewide Youth Fitness Program
Gov. Carl Sanders this week
proclaimed March 2 - 9 as “Geor
gia Youth Fitness Week.” To coin
cide with this event, doctors from
all over the state plan to attend
a one - day meeting designed to
stimulate increased activity in
programs of physical fitness for
youth sponsored by the Medical
Association of Georgia.
Keynoting this Atlanta MAG
Conference of County Medical So
ciety Officers on March 2 is Char
les "Bud” Wilkinson, Consultant
for the President on Youth Fit
ness and Athletic Director at the
University of Oklahoma. Coach
Wilkinson will speak on the sub-
P-TA Founders Day
Observed Here
Founders Day PTA observance
was held on Thursday night, Feb
ruary 21, with an address by Mrs.
Cassie M. McDaniel, Curriculum
Director as the highlight of the
occasion.
The history of the local PTA
was given by Mrs. Essie Akins.
Mrs. Olden Kimball, parent of the
year, was presented a lovely cor
sage. A congenial social period
followed the program. Cutting of
the beautiful three tiered blue
and white cake by the president,
Mr. Frank Nolly and vice presi
dent, Mrs. Maude Grimes.
Mrs. Lois Taylor was chairman
of the Founders Day program, as
sisted by Miss Cora Davis. Hos
tesses were Mrs. Frances Beale,
Mrs. L. Adams and Mrs. Josep
hine Easley.
state to plan trips to see this
"once in a life time opportunity.”
Highlights of the exhibit are:
“Alice in Her Seven Wonders
Land”, an electron microscope, a
six foot model of a human cell, a
heart lung machine, a chunk of a
tree showing cancer growth, cork
man for testing X-Ray voltages, a
wheelbarrow containing more than
7,000 cigarette butts — what the
average smoker discards each
year, and a number of educational
displays on research in epidemi
ology, chemotherapy, virology, and
immunology.
The two week showing in t h e
lobby of the new Georgia Power
Company building at 270 Peach
tree Street has been arranged by
the Georgia Division of the Ameri
can Cancer Society, The City of
Atlanta, Coca-Cola Company, Sou
thern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company, Georgia Power
Company, Fulton County Medical
Society, the Fulton County Depart
ment of Public Health and the
Medical Association of Georgia.
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Over 10 Odoctors from through
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ty of Michigan State University
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Another highlight of the meet
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doctor’s role in promoting youth
fitness leaaersnip in the com
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Education and Athletics at Emory
University.
“Our purpose, as doctors of
medicine in Georgia, is to re-em
phasize the need for youth fitness
activity in every community of
our state and this meeting initia
tes our kickoff to achieve this
goal,” stated Dr. Fred Allman of
Atlanta, who is Conference Mod
erator at this medical meeting.
Dr. Allman added that the
medical profession solidly sup
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satement that "the need for youth
fitness activity concerns the fu
ture health of the citizens of our
state and the physical well being
of our youth is paramount."
Closing the Conference is a
youth fitness demonstration on the
trampoline with a tumbling and
free exercise show by the Key
wayden Camp Gym Team who
are the national champions in age
-11-years-an- under gymnastics.
Atlanta, Georgia’s capital and
largest city, has had several name
changes, according to Compton's
Pictured Encyclopedia. The city
began as a railroad junction of
four lines in 1837 and was known
as Terminus. The name was
changed to Marthasville in 1843,
and in 1845 to Atlanta.