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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
Fight With Them
- Against the Crippier
In Easter Seal rehabilitation facilities
•in Georgia there is an endless picture of
determined crippled youngsters fighting
_ against something larger than their under
standing. . . and disabled adults trying
hard to conquer limitations of physical
handicaps.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try try
again" — no one really knows that old
adage like a crippled child or adult. Each
day of their life is spent in trying. . .trying.
Trying to move an arm. . a leg. . a muscle
. . .trying to move an inch, or just a frac
tion of an inch. Trying not to give up,
when sometimes the chance of success
seems to be so far away.
Helping them each frustrating inch of
the way through therapy sessions, are
qualified Easter Seal therapists.
Helping them whether they have been
crippled by accident or disease. . w’hether
they are a few months old or age ninety
. . .able or unable to pay for Easter Seal
treatment services received.
It’s not easy to try when you are crip
pled. You try again. . and again. . .and
again. The crippled have to try — their
life depends upon it. You help them try,
when you give to Easter Seals!
Natural Living Is
A Great Blessing
If you wish your home property to at
tract attention and favorable comment
from neighbors and friends; if you wish
your family to enjoy the whole property,
not just the house alone, then try full -
scale landscaping, advises the American
Association of Nurserymen.
Bare or poorly planted land is hot, un
natural and ugly. There is little or no
- privacy for the family. On the contrary,
-properly planted land is not only beauti-
Zful but it offers many family pleasures as
2 well as restful environment.
The magic transformations of the sea
sons, the flowers, the fruits, the fragrances
I are all part of a good landscape pattern.
-Your summer entertaining is given a set
- ting your friends will admire. When homes
7 are surrounded by beautiful products of
nature, we all are happier.
Living is more wholesome.
~ Lovely trees and shrubs have a healthy
effect. There is less dust, the air is purer.
- We behold a perfect flower, a rose, a ca
2mellia, or even a leaf, and we marvel at
2 its perfection. By good landscaping, the
- whole land surface can be perfected with
' the right plants in the right places to form
a lovely setting for the house. We all are
- part of nature, and we need it around us
' in order to give our lives more purpose,
_ more peace and contentment.
Neighbors see beautiful plantings as
evidence of family pride and stability, the
will to live beautifully for the whole fam
— ily. Such landscaping is an especially im
- pliant home improvement.
~ You haven't really lived until you land
scaoe and beautify your land says the as
sociation, whether it is a 25-foot lot or an
estate of many acres.
The Two Purposes
Os Advertising
The most obvious is to sell a concern's
goods or services, whatever they may be.
This is essential and traditional.
But there can be more, much more —
and that is advertising designed to instill
faith in the system which makes it pos
sible to produce, advertise and sell goods
and services, in a climate of freedom. The
“climate” is the foundation for successful
production and sales.
The Freedoms Foundation each year
awards its George Washington Honor Me
dal — which is its top award — to an en
terprise conducting a local advertising
campaign furthering the cause of freedom.
The 1962 Medal went to the Florida
Power A Light Company, which also won
it in 1955. That made this utility the first
7two-time winner of the Foundation’s high
^est award.
- The 1962 advertising which won the
Z honor pointed out the importance of main
-2 taining the basic rights and privileges of
our citizens. “Each ad in the series depicit
-ed a different phase of the American way
7of life — freedom of speech, the right to
vote and many others — asking on each,
‘Are we letting it fade away?”’
An officer of the company has said:
“We have tried through advertising to
awaken citizens to the value of our rights
2 and freedoms. . .” What finer purpose can
- advertising serve?
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Confusion Can Mean Death
A feature on the North-South Express
way in Atlanta, by Charles Moore,, in
Sunday’s Atlanta Journal - Constitution,
pointed up the Herculean task involved in
its construction. ,
Despite the infinitesimal factors, delays,
enormous problems and inconveniences
resulting, all thinking citizens agree that
such thoroughfares are highways to the
future; and the only means of handling
our ever increasing motor traffic.
The gravest concern of the State High
way Department, Construction Companies
and law enforcement officials centers
around the safety of motorists on these
mammoth ribbons of cement, during con
struction. It should also be of gravest con
cern to the individual motorist.
A case in point is the merging of left and
right lanes of the Covington-Conyers Fed
eral Highway No. 278 (Interstate 20), just
southeast of Conyers. A barricade of black
and white striped oil drums, wooden saw
horses and a detour sign usually routes
drivers to the proper right hand lanes. If
venturesome motorists, determined to risk
“getting through anyway,” knock down
or move the barricades; or workmen move,
or fail to replace them, then motorists un
familiar with the hazard drive straight
ahead to find themselves facing double
lanes of oncoming traffic.
We had the grim experience of happen
ing upon a fatal wreck recently, in which
a driver had met such oncoming traffic
in a head-on crash involving three vehicles.
One fatality, several injuries, and one hos
pitalization was the toll. While at the scene
of the wreck, several other motorists drove
up, also from the wrong direction, thor
oughly confused to find themselves on the
wrong lane.
We have no intention or desire to pin
point the blame as to the confusion. But
since scores of Newton Countians commute
daily to Atlanta, we are definitely calling
attention to this particular spot, in an ef
fort to warn our citizens of this hazard,
where confusion could mean death.
Will He Awaken to
The Inevitable Truth?
As the years have rolled by since our
initial starry-eyed involvement in 1945
with a global fantasy called the United
Nations, both the actual injury and the po
tential peril of our misguided altruism have
become increasingly apparent and painful
to an ever increasing number of thought
ful Americans.
Looking back on this degrading exper
ience from our inglorious position as the
helpless victim of a Cuban bandit is to
review a shocking, incomprehensible night
mare.
It is not vainglory, but simple truth, to
recall that this nation emerged from World
War II the savior of the free world. And,
despite our inordinate investment of blood
and treasure in this global conflict, the US
entered the sanctified company of the
United Nations as the strongest of all.
But what has happened to us since that
day passeth all understanding. Undertak
ing a "police action” in Korea, we found
ourselves involved in a war in which our
armies, joined by token forces from a few
other UN members, were under UN com
mand; a war we were not allowed to win,
a war in which 125,000 Americans died in
vain.
In 1956, after years of encouragement
by our radio propagandists, Hungarian pa
triots rose and beat their Red slavemasters
with fists and stones and bottles and a few
small arms — but we lacked the courage
to help secure their victory and allowed
them to be massacred by hordes of Soviet
and Red Chinese troops.
We averted our eyes while Mao’s for
ces pillaged and enslaved Tibet, while Ne
hru took the peaceful, industrious, 400-
year-old Portuguese enclave of Goa. and a
Communist stooge seized Portuguese An
gola. But we have been stirred to action in
airlifting US arms to the UN "Peace For
ce" in its ruthless destruction of the hopes
and resistance of pro-Western Katanga.
The UN, it seems, is our Svengali. We
have been hypnotized, rendered incapable
i al acting in our own interest and tradi
tions. We have even given the UN a blue
print for the three-stage takeover of the
US Army. Navy and Air Force!
Strangely, we are opposing a UN grant
of $2.1 million to Castro (of which US
would supply nearly half a million). But
if the UN bosses approve the plan, says our
man Stevenson, “there isn't much that can
be done about it”.
Isn't there? If we have any spirit or
pride left whatever, we can do what we
should have done before Korea. We can
get out — and lick our grievous wounds.
MABEL SESSIONS DEUNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at Hie Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of Hie Second
Class.
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Jesus Fulfills His Mission
Bible Material: Mark 14:10-
15:41
Devotional Reading: 2 Tim
othy 3:1-5, 14-15.
Memory Selection: For this
reason the Father loves me, be
cause I lay down my life, that
I may take it again. John 10:17
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Jesus Fulfills His Mission
Young People-Adult Topic:
Jesus Fulfills His Mission
Last week’s lesson dealt
with our Lord’s Second Com
ing. The lesson today deals
with the termination of his
ministry on earth. It was as
tragic a passing as human flesh
could have.
In the death of Christ spir
itual principles of profound di
mension are set forth. Sacrifice
is the mood and action into
which love emerges. The min
istry and death of Christ show
ed forth the immeasurable love
of God.
The topic of today’s lesson
is "Jesus Fulfills His Mission.”
He could not have fulfilled it
in any way other than through
death. If he had lived to old
age and died a natural death
he might have been—and prob
ably would have been—ranked
with the world's greatest teach
ers. But he would not have
been a Saviour.
How the death of Christ
saves us from our sins we are
not altogether sure. But we are
sure that his death does this
necessary thing and that noth
ing but his death could secure
this end.
Jesus might easily have
avoided crucifixion. He might
have fled. He might have com
promised just a little and thus
have avoided the punishment
of execution. Burt he would
neither flee nor compromise,
for moral principle was in
volved and cosmic forces were
at work so vast in their scope
that we can understand them
only partly.
We believe that Christ died
for our sins aocoxhng to the
scriptures. It was his sacrificial
death on the cross that obtain
ed our forgiveness. Without the
cross there would have re
mained a noble life and a lofty
set of teachings — but not a
gospel.
It took the crucifixion and
the resurrection to produce this
gospel—to enable Jesus to ful
fill his ministry.
Gethsemane — the pjace of
। the olive press—was mtuated
at the foot of the Mount of
Olives. It was a quiet place to
which Jesus often repaired
when he wanted solitude and
the opportunity to pray and
commune with the Heavenly
Father in private. On this rujht
of his betrayal. Jesus waa|^E
ed with the realization* tWt
ignominious death would-be
his portion within the next
twenty-four hours. He took
with him Peter, James, and
John. He instructed them to
remain a little apart while he
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
went forward and prayed.
We re-ad that as he prayed
he was “sore amazed, and . . .
very heavy.”
At what was he amazed? At
the enormity and hideous
character of sin. With the
beauty and peace of righteous
ness open before them, men
ahose rather the devious ways
of wrongdoing. They thought
that they would thereby
achieve happiness. They were,
in reality, plunging into un
happiness and disaster.
The way of peace lay straight
before them, and it was the
way of obedience to God's pur
poses.
The second statement that
he was "very heavy” is the
translation of a Greek word
which has for its root meaning
“not at home.” In other words,
Jesus was beside himself with
amazement, distress, and sor
row. He was going through
such agony that Luke declares
(22:44) the sweat of his face
dropped down to the ground
“as it were great drops of
blood. . . .”
We no doubt all wonder at
times why there is so much
suffering in the world. Why
does a good and loving God
allow this? This question we
cannot answer, but we know
that God himself in the person
of Jesus Christ entered into
this earthly experience of pain.
No one has ever suffered
more than Christ did in Geth
semane and on the cross. He
realized, as none of us can
realize, the folly and power of
sin. To his physical suffering
was added the realization that
men had given up gold for dust.
Jesus prayed fervently that
the cup of suffering would pass
from him, "if it were possible.
. . .” But he ended his prayer
with the words: "nevertheless
not what I will, but what thou
wilt.” (Luke’s version is
“nevertheless not my will, but
thine, be done.”)
As Christ struggled in pray
er the disciples tried to keep
awake but were unable to do
so. "Simon sleepest thou?
couldest not thou watch one
hour?” Note that he addressed
the chief of his disciples as Si
mon, not Peter. On this occa
sion this leader of the apostolic
group was not “the rock." He
was Simon, the vacillating and
somewhat cowardly follower
who had not yet learned to
face the hard realities of divine
living.
Crucifixion was the most
degraded and degrading form
of execution known to the an
cient world. No Roman citizen
could be crucified. It was de
finitely more degrading than
hanging is in modern life.
Furthermore it involved ex
treme pain, for death was pro
longed. Sometimes victims
would remain on the croM for
several days, dying at last of
thirst and shock.
Pilate could scarcely believe
it when he learned that the
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death of Jesus had takep place
in a comparatively short time.
We are not entirely sure what
the term "the third hour”
means. Probably it means that
the crucifixion took place at
nine o’clock in the morning but
Jesus was still alive at twelve
o’clock, the sixth hour. Jesus
did not die until the ninth hour,
which was probably three
o’clock in the afternoon accord
ing to modern reckoning.
Soldiers in charge of execu
tions were allowed to divide
the victim's garments among
themselves. They parted the
garments of Jesus “casting lots
upon them, what every man
should take,” thus fulfilling
the statement in Psalms 22:18,
“They part my garments
among them and cast lots upon
my vesture.”
In those days, persons about
to be executed had a placard
suspended about their necks
with the accusation of their
crime written upon it. John
tells us that the chief priests
and the Jews protested to Pi
late: “Write not, The King of
the Jews; but that he said, I
am King of the Jews. Pilate
answered, What I have writ
ten I have written” (John
19:21-22).
Two thieves were crucified
with him, one on the right hand
and the other on the left. Mark
tells us nothing about these
two men, but Luke (23:39-43)
says that “one of the malefac
tors which were hanged railed
on him, saying, If thou be
Christ, save thyself, and us.”
Local Students
Win 'Superior'
Rating at Festival
Mrs. T. Alvin Rape, chairman
of the Fourth District Piano Di
vision, reports a very successful
Festival held this year at E. L.
Ficquett School in Covington. Stu
dents of Mrs. Rape, Mrs. Lewis
Caldwell, Mrs. Ada Mae Patter
son and Mrs. M. E. Goode parti
cipated in the festival.
Winning Superior ratings were
Janet Burson, of Palmer Stone
School, Oxford and Becky Blair,
E. L. FicqueH School Covington,
students of Mrs. Rape; Elizabeth
Fitzpatrick, students of Mrs. Cald
well; Anne Klimaszewski and
Lorie Hegwood, duet and Lee Pi
per, students of Mrs. Ada Mae
Patterson and Nelda White and
Billy Blair, students of Mrs.
Goode.
The students and their teachers
are to be congratulated on th i s
splendid achievement.
Pilot Club to f
Meet Tonight
The Pilot Club of Covington
will hold its regular monthly
business meeting tonight at
8:00 o'clock at the Newton
County Board of Education
Building. The Executive Board
will meet at 7:15 P.M.
Members are asked to bring
their contributions to the Pan
try Shelf.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
Easier Sunrise Service Set
For Lawnwcod Memorial Park
Easter Sunrise Services will be
held Easter Sunday morning,
April 14, at 6 a. m. at Lawnwood
Memorial Park, according to an
announcement by Rev. Thomas
J. White, pastor of the Covington
Presbyterian Church, and pub
licity chairman of the Newton
County Ministerial Association,
sponsors of the service.
Rev. Carl Cassidy, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, will pre
side with Rev. A. D. Whittemore,
pastor of Julia A. Porter Memor
ial Methodist Church, Porterdale,
giving the invocation. Songs, “All
Hail the Power”, and “Christ the
Lord is Risen”, will be followed by
More Than One Employer?
You May Gel a SS Refund
Timely tips were offered to
day by Eugene L. Rawls, social
security district manager here
in Atlanta to help you make
sure that you get all of your
social security earnings credit
when tax-paying time rolls
around April 15.
Mr. Rawls emphasized that
if you worked for two employ
ers during 1962, you may be
entitled to have any excess
social security taxes you paid
refunded, or applied to reduc
ing the income tax owed.
In 1962, he said, you as an
employee had 3 1/8 percent of
your earnings up to the first
S4BOO a year deducted from
your wages by your employer.
Your W-2 Form should show
no more than $l5O deducted
from your wages in the F. I. C.
A. (Federal Insurance Contri
butions Act) box even if you
were paid more than S4BOO, the
maximum creditable for social
security.
Mr. Rawls pointed out that if
you worked for two or more
employers during the year and
the amounts in the F. I. C. A.
boxes on all of your W-2 Forms
add up to more than $l5O, you
have some money coming back.
The tax rate for a self-em
ployed person for 1962 was 4.7
percent of the first S4BOO of
self-employment earnings. Even
if, because of a large number of
dependents and small earnings,
you don’t owe any income tax,
a self-employment social sec
urity tax must be paid and a
return filed if your net earn-
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to hear these services, no mat
ter what church we belong to.
Mr. Callaway is conducting his
own services, and holding only
one service per day.. .7:30 p. m.
The wonderful part about liv
ing in Covington is that all
faiths come together for these
revivals, and they are held
mostly, at different times, so
every person then has an op
portunity to attend many ser
vices. We feel we can speak for
all churches, or express their
sentiment rather, in inviting
you to their services, for whe i
the Church Doors are opened
for services, all people are in
vited no matter what your
Church may be. These services
at the Baptist Church will last
through this week.. .AND...
just think! Next week the
Methodist Church, Mr. Grady
Lively, Pastor will begin it’s
revival on Sunday.. .that is it
will start this Sunday, with Dr.
Toombs Kay, of LaGrange,
conducting the services, at
7:30 each morning, and 7:30
each evening. Mr. John Minter,
of McDonough, will lead the
singing.
Here in Covington for two
weeks, we will have an opport
unity to hear the Gospel.
Please let’s accept this invit
ation to the house of God. He
is calling us. and we need Him.
Hearts throughout this sec
tion have been saddened at the
passing of two beloved Citizens
this week. Miss Sallie Mae
Cook, with her sweet, unselfish
life, and her charming person
ality made her place within
our hearts. Mrs. Downs, mother
of Ralph and John Dowms was
also a beautiful Christian, and
made her place within our
hearts. She will live on in those
fine sons. Hosts of friends join
us in heartfelt sympathy to
both families.
Surely the gardens
at Covington have never
been lovlier! God’s flowers, I
Thursday, April 4, 1963
scripture reading by Rev. E. A.
Callaway, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church, Covington.
After a prayer by Rev. Cassidy
special music typical of the sea
son will be furnished by the New
ton County High School Glee Club,
under the direction of Joe Sears.
The Easter Sunrise message will
be brought by Rev. H. Robert
Gary, pastor of Allen Memorial
Methodist Church, Oxford, with
the benediction by Rev. Irving
Rudolph, pastor of Porterdale
Presbyterian Church.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this service.
ings exceeded S4OO for the year.
Many self-employed persons
who file declarations of estima
ted income tax prefer to spread
out the payment of their social
security tax by paying it in
four installments along with
their estimated income tax.
Under the income tax law, Mr.
Rawls said, self-employed per
sons, other than farmers, who
expect to have at least S4O in
come tax on income not sub
ject to withholding, are requir
ed to file declarations of their
estimated income tax and make
advance payments. The law
permits the inclusion of the
estimated social security self
employment tax in these dec
larations and advance pay
ments.
You should be very careful
as a self-employed person in
giving complete answers to all
of the questions on Schedule
C-3 and the Schedule SE at
tached to the bottom of Sche
dule C-3. The District Director
of Internal Revenue detaches
the bottom portion after he
determines that a correct tax
payment has been made and
sends it to the Social Security
Administration in Baltimore,
Md. There, Mr. Rawls said, it
becomes a permanent part of
your social security earnings
account. It will one day be very
important in fixing the size of
the benefit checks which you
have earned for yourself and
your dependents as a self-em
ployed ner.son under social sec
urity, Mr. Rawls said.
shrubs and glorious trees bring
to our hearts a renewed stren
gth. He has brought us so much
beauty in a world, of today, so
filled with hatred, greed, self
ishness, and a desire to get
away from Churches, and tra
vel or. Sundays; camp, spend
weekends at Summer Cottages,
fish and what have you.. .that
we almost tremble! We think
|of how all Jerusalem was
warned of it’s destruction, and
' would not heed! What are WE
। thinking of today.. .we should
be putting first things first!
Easter Sunday is nearing!
Let’s think more of the risen
Saviour than of Easter Bonnets
and Easter Finery!
If this column is disconnec
ted, just know it is one of these
mornings.. .telephone calls, ot
her calls; a man cutting down
everything in the yard as he
comes to it, and me trying to
see that he does not.. .No, he is
wonderful, but I've run in and
out until I do not know what
I’m talking about! Those times
come you know.. .but after all
this column must be finished to
fill it’s space.
Now, I made a call.. .and
find news that we regret! Luc
ile Skinner (Mrs. Tom) of the
Covington News Staff, one of
our most beloved co-workers,
became ill at the office and has
been rushed to Newton County
Hospital.. .so with my heart
out there, and me trying to
finish this.. .you know how I
feel. We pray the Doctors will
have you up soon, Lucile!
Went to the Benefit Barbe
cue for Cancer Fund. Mr. Jones,
who prepared the food and
he’s the last word in this Art...
became ill that night.. .high
fever, sore throat and eyes
swollen from all the smoke
from the Barbecue Pitt! The
food was the best we ever
tasted, people came from as far
away as Atlanta! We made a
nice little sum for our Cancer
Fund.. .but nothing was worth
Mr. Jones getting ill from his
work for it. He is better now,
and all are praying for a
speedy recovery.. .and the best
wishes of the entire section go
to him.
BE SURE you go to the St
rand Theater on Friday Morn
ing. April sth, 10:30 o’clock,
ladies as the guest of Mrs. M.
M. Osman. This could mean
YOUR very life.. .for it is edu
cational and instructs you as
to how to watch for Cancer and
catch it, even before it becomes
cancer. Please tell all your
clubwomen to be there too!