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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Pub.isher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Newton County Hospital
Observes National Week
Georgia joins the nation in observing this
week, May 12-18, as National Hospital
Week.
It is a privilege to have this opportunity
to pay tribute to our local Newton County
Hospital and its unsurpassed medical, nurs
ing and administrative staffs.
This 54 bed hospital, owned by Newton
County, has won national recognition for
its efficiency in administration and opera
tion. It is a member of the Georgia Hospi
tal Association; American Hospital Asso
ciation; and has the highest seal of approval
possible for a hospital to gain in being fully
accredited by the Joint Commission on the
Accreditation of Hospitals in the U. S. and
Canada.
It has been cited in Modern Hospitals;
and in the American Hospital Association’s
Magazine, Hospitals, for its splendid coop
eration with the local Heart Council in
establishing the nation’s first county Heart
unit, sponsored Stroke Rehabilitation
Clinic.
Newton Hospital is used by the Hospital
services of the State Department of Health
as a Pilot Hospital for study. Hospital and
medical officials from Korea, France, Cuba,
England, and Pakistan, as well as many
throughout the U. S. have visited the local
hospital for observation and study.
There is no more demanding vocation
than a medical, nursing or hospital career.
Those completing training for these profes
sions are men and women of strength and
dedication.
We join other grateful Newton Countians
in appreciation of and tribute to our New
ton County Hospital Authority, headed by
B. B. Snow, Mrs. W. V. Dickinson, Admin
istrator; and the exceptional Medical and
Nursing Staffs, headed respectively by Dr.
E. J. Callaway and Mrs. Jack Moss.
Bank Robberies Becoming
A Serious Obsession
Today, the lust for quick money Is a
motivating factor in the alarming rise of
one of the Nation's most violent crimes—
bank robbery. Last year, 1,250 violations
of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental
Crimes Statute were reported to the FBI.
This represents more than a 30 per cent
increase over the number reported in 1961.
In seeking a solution, it is necessary to
look beyond the problem to its causes. A
recent survey of bank robbery matters
shows that more and more violations are
being perpetrated by rank amateurs, in
ri viduals with no previous criminal rec
brds. Obviously, these persons, for various
rea.'Ons, are obsessed with the desire for
1. ige sums of money quickly. Their irra
t: >nal deeds are virtually doomed to fail
c e. Those who manage to escape from
the scene seldom remain at large long
r i <ugh to enjoy the fruits of their crimes.
Yet. few “beginners" are fully aware of
this. Herein lies one of the major causes.
Experience has clearly demonstrated
that the time-proven deterrents to crime
are sure detection, swift apprehension and
proper punishment. As a deterrent, the lat
ter is by far the most important. Unfor
tunately. its news value to most media is
practically nil. Accordingly, potential bank
robbers hear and sec a great deal about
individuals fleeing with huge sums of
money, but many never learn of the punish
ment invoked. Recently, two bank robbers
were convicted in Federal court and re
ceived sentences of 20 years each. The sen
tencing went almost unnoticed. Meanwhile,
in the same locality two other bank rob
beries occurred They received widespread,
sensational publicity. To some this imbal
ance could be very deceptive.
There are, of course, other contributing
factors. The rapid growth of suburban
areas has greatly increased the number of
branch banks. These facilities are consider
ably more vulnerable to robbery. Usually,
hey have fewer security features and less
police protection.
Escape routes are easily accessible and
better concealed. Some banks are not as
security conscious as others, notwithstand
ing the fact that such precautions are ex
tremely valuable aids in the solution of
bank robberies. These conditions lead to
more robberies and more serious injuries
or deaths to innocent victims.
“Let us expose the false impression of
quick profits to be gained by preying on
banking institutions. Let all bank robbers
and would-be violators come to know there
can be only one conclusion to this shocking
crime —detection, arrest and certain pun
ishment.” declared J. Edgar Hoover. Di
rector of the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion.
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We Turn Our Eyes
To the Future
The headline over this editorial is this
year’s Soil Stewardship theme. It under
scores the necessity for man to look beyond
today’s horizons so he will be able, through
judgment and wisdom, to adequately ful
fill his multiplying responsibilities as stew
ards of the soil and water.
To remind Americans of their responsib
ility to God and to society to conserve and
wisely use these resources, the week of May
19-26 has been designated as Soil Steward
ship Week.
The National Association of Soil and
Water Conservation Districts has created
soil stewardship materials for use during
the week. There will be booklets, church
programs, bulletin inserts, posters. No t
only will you hear conservation preached
in church — it will be on radio and tele
vision. Yes, this newspaper will print stories
about it.
Like many of you, when another Na
tional Week comes along we are tempted
to pass it off as just another National Week
with a “So what?”
But not this one. Not withstanding the
great spiritual significance of the soil and
water, our every existence upon this earth
depends on how well we conserve and util
ize the resources God hrs given us.
As the Scriptures tell us. “The earth is
the Lord’s.” We cannot own it; we can only
use it.
And we aren't doing too well.
Faster than any nation in history, we
have destroyed our top soil. Below the six
i inches which remain there is desert, de
spair and death.
Dr. G. Ross Freeman, state chaplain of
the Georgia Association of Conservation
District Supervisors, has said, “Forget the
A-bomb and the H-bomb; unless we look
after our soil and water resources, we shall
as surely perish.”
There is, indeed, a direct relation be
tween the fertility of the soil, the avail
ability of water, and the condition of life.
The hunger belt, the illiteracy belt, and
the communist threat to the world coincide.
The earth's population will double in
the next 50 years. Already there is not
enough land to feed the 3 billion people
upon the earth.
Another generation said, “If our children
are to eat fruit tomorrow, trees must be
planted today.”
In a real sense, if our children are to
eat at all tomorrow, we must be good stew
ards of the natural resources today.
No, Soil Stewardship is not just another
week we can pass off lightly with a “So
What?”
There are more relevant questions. Like.
“What can I do to be a better steward of
the soil, water and other natural resources
God has given me?”
Facts — And a System
Much of the world lacks even the basic
and most vital foods — predominately meat.
In this, as in so many other areas of life,
the United States is wonderfully fortunate.
During 1963. says the chief officer of
the American Meat Institute, the greatest
amount of beef to be produced in one year
will be served to the nation's consumers by
the meat industry. The total will be 16 2
billion pounds, a gain of 700 million over
last year. It will work out to a per caoita
consumption of 90 pounds for beef alone.
For all the rod meats, the figure is esti
mated at 163.5 pounds.
And increased consumption isn't the
whole story. The meat industry has kept
pace with modern technology, and is fully
prepared to handle the rising demand. The
research programs of the packing industry,
the AMI spokesman added, will continue to
expand in order to find more efficient and
economical methods of bringing convenient,
attractive, high quality meat products from
farm to table.
So much for the facts — now for a
, word about the svstem which has done so
much to make this possible. We call it the
capitalist system, or the private enterprise
system, or the free enterprise system, or
some other equivalent. Whatever the phrase
used, it means a system in which peoole
have the right to produce and sell what
they want, to take their chances, and to
willingly operate in a competitive market
in which consumer wants and demands are
the final arbiter.
This system produces abundance — an
abundance that would seem unbelievable
in most of the rest of the world. The other
svstems. based as they are on government
dominance, and on official decree as to
what the people mav and may not have.
I produces scarcity and want.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Edi' jr
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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By Edward Collier
A Magic Circle vacation trip
bonanza lie* in Georgia’s north
ern mountain and lake country.
Dahlonega, scene of America’s
tii t gold rush, has changed little
since 1849 when, from the Court
House balcony, a speaker tried
to dissuade local miners from go
ing to California by pointing to
a nearby ridge and bellowing,
“Thar's gold in them thar hills".
The U.S. Mint produced $6 mil
lion in “hard money”, and the
North Georgia College Library
has a display of these rare coins.
At the dirt-floored Gold Museum
' visitors can get a gold-panning
SOUR WEEKLY (QIESSON FOR
unday School
Deliverance in Trouble
Bible Material; Psalms 91;
107.
Devotional Reading: Psalms
18:1-6; Memory Selection:...
They cried to the Lord in their
trouble, and he delivered them
from their distress. Psalms 107:
6.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
God’s Help in Trouble.
Young People-Adult Topic:
I Deliverance in Trouble.
We are helpless. We arc mere
I specks upon a large planet. This
planet is utterly insignificant
among other great astral bodies.
We are part of a solar system
that has but slight significance
when compared with the vast
ness of the universe.
Yet amid this immeasurable
extension of space, this com
plexity of natural laws, this
complete sense of helplessness
as regards what we can do for
ourselves, a loving Heavenly
Father stands above us. He
smiles down upon us. He as
sures us that, small as we are,
we are precious in his sight.
He has provided for us a
Saviour and a Lord.
We need to approach life
with two convictions so strong
ly held that they are like bright
beacons before our eyes. The
first is that we in ourselves are
utterly helpless. The second is
that a loving God cares so much
for his creation that not a spar
row falls without his noting it.
And are not we. as he assured
us, “of more value than many
spa rrows”?
Our lesson today deals with
that deliverance upon which
we can rely in times of trouble.
Some Bible students believe
that three psalms—the nine
tieth. the ninety-first, and the
ninety-second—form a sort of
trilogy. The Ninetieth Psalm,
they claim, presumably written
by Moses, dwells upon the part
God plays in the crises of
Israel's history. Psalm Ninety
two is a psalm of thanksgiving
for God's deliverance of his
people from bondage. Psalm
■ Ninety-one voices the assur
ance which the people of God
| w°re to have as they passed the
many years they did in bond
age and oppression.
The suffering of the Jews
i through the centuries is a stain
i upon the pages of history which
; no effort of man can ever erase.
Let us look at the opening
I verses of this Ninety-first
Psalm.
“He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most High
shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty." The words
“dwelleth" and "abide" arc the
significant words of this verse.
For some people religion is a
mischievous delusion, for others
it is a shelter into which they
run at times of danger but from
which they emerge as soon is
the danger is past. For the true
children of God. religious faith,
daily trust, and commitment to
life constitute a dwelling place
in which thev find security,
peace, and joy.
Religious faith is not some-.
thing to be resorted tooccasion
a’ly. It is something in which
Iwe need to live day by day, i
demonstration from an old-timer
and then go out and .pan for
themselves.
Blue-green hills jut up as you
drive toward Cleveland, and an
occasional log house is a re
minder of pioneer days. Pride of
this pottery-making town is
White County Court House, a
miniature of Philadelphia’s In
dependence Hall. North of Helm
is Nacoochee Indian Mound, once
the acene of sacred fires and cere
monial dances, and Unicoi State
Park, where Indian and white
man exchanged goods.
We circled through peach
growing country to spectacular
gathering all the interests of
life about us as we do, it we
are truly going to be happy.
We must not run into the
sheltering arms of God and
then run out again. We must
“abide.’’
The Lord is our refuge and
our fortress. Men gather them
selves into such places when
I war is declared and the battle
is being waged. Do you have
something that attacks you
daily? Perhaps it is doubt, pain,
sorrow, passion. These are not
things to be shrugged off easily
or thrust aside by our own
( strong hands. There are many
i issues of life that are beyond
' our powers to cope with alone.
When these issues confront us,
then do we need a refuge and
a fortress, a God in whom we
। can trust.
“The snare of the fowler.’’
Some temptations are of that
variety—subtle and insidious.
' “The noisome pestilence.” Ot
her varieties of temptation and
sin are like chronic diseases that
burst forth in pain and discom
fort just at the time when we
most need our powers.
The psalmist uses the figure
of a mother bird covering her
little ones with her wing.-. Any
one who has ever seen a mother
hen gather her chicks about
her when a hawk appears in
the sky can appreciate the
force of this figure.
Jesus cried out to the people
of Jerusalem: "O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, ... how often would
1 have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gather
eth her children under her
wings, and ye would not”
(Matthew 23:37).
“The terror by night”—the
only thing that will eventually
get us to sleep after hours of
anxiety and tossing, as we
think of the problems confront
ing our loved ones and oursel
ves. is faith in God.
Nothing can move the man
of laith —not the "arrow that
flieth by day; nor the pestilence
that walketh in darkness; nor
.. .the destruction that wasteth
at noonday.” Faith in a loving
God manifested to us in Jesus
Christ is the only true security
we can have.
Fear is not an evil to be
shunned. It is one of God’s
great mercies to protect us |
against things which are dan
gerous. But morbid fear, that
turns in upon itself —this is ।
one of lite’s heavy burdens. And 1
the only cure for it is a comp
lete and trusting faith in a
loving God.
The theme of this lesson is
that there is deliverance for u<
in the day of trouble. God will |
give us that deliverance. W?
in oui own powers are helpless.
God in his eternal might is all
sufficient.
ilvery farmer's resources fall
mto the four general categories
of land, labor, capital and man
agement. Farm management
deals with combining these res
ources toward the goal of lar- .
gest total farm products. j
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures and Features)
Tallulah Gorge where legend
says a lovelorn Cherokee prin
cess leaped to her death. From a
3,500-foot overlook in Black
Rock Mountain State Park near
Clayton is a panoramic view of
fields, forests and blue hills that
extend into the Carolinas.
The return is west past moun
tains bearing such names as
Slaughter and Blood, and pre
sided over by Brasstown Bald,
Georgia’s highest peak; Hiawas
see. home of the annual Moun
tain Fair; Young Harris, not'd
for handcrafts; and Amicalola
State Park’s photogenic 729-foot
waterfall.
Pennington Gels
A New Senate
Committee Post
Senator Brooks Pennington.
Jr., has been appointed to the
| Senate Committee on Economy,
Reorganization and Efficiency
in State government a new re
lease said today.
The Subpoena-Armed Senate
Committee, not yet organized,
will work in close liaison with
a commission set up by Gov
ernor Carl Sanders to stream
line state government.
Members of the Senate Com
mittee said that they hope to
supplement the Govern o r’s
Commission. The Commission
was created by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Peter Zack Geer.
Other members of the Com
mittee are Senator John M.
Gaynor, 111 of Brunswick, Sen
ator Charles Pannell of Chats
worth. Senate floor leader, Sen
ator Harry Jackson of Colum
bus, Senator Tom Ellis of Mc-
Dono ugh. Senator Clinton
Oliver of Glennville, Senator
J. M. Salome of Atlanta, Sen
ator Ford B. Spinks of Tifton
and Senator Hugh M. Gillis of
Soperton.
The Committee replaced the
senate government operations
committee Senator Pannell
said.
The ten member group has
the right to investigate all
| Functions of State Government
and all persons or firms doing
business with the state.
Pannell said that he seriously
doubts that the committee will
ever issue a subpoena, but that
everv committee ought to have
subpoena powers.
The release said that most of I
the members of the Committee
are strong supporters of the |
Governor.
Letters Io
The Editor
Mrs. A. Belmont Dennis,
Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mrs. Dennis,
The Miniature Garden Club
would like to express its gra
titude and deep appreciation
for all the wonderful publicity
you gave our “Spring Color
ama” Flower Show It was
one of our most successful pro- ;
jects and we feel it was due j
in large part to the coopcra-1
tion, courtesy and interest of
our “on-the-bair’ newspaper!
We in this area feel fortu
nate indeed in having a news;
paper that gives so much of its
space and time and talents to
ou r civic clubs.
Thank you for the excellent
oictures and publicity that
helped immeasurably to make |
our Flower Show a successful
community project.
Sincerely.
Mrs. Herbert Vining
Publicity Chairman |
Chamber of Commerce Warns
Os Unordered Merchandise
John H. Hall Executive Di-1
rector of the Covington - :
Newton County Chamber of
Commerce said today the irk
some practice of sending un- i
ordered merchandise through ■
the mails continues to flourish ;
and advised the public that it
is generally under no obliga
tion to pay for or return un
solicited goods.
The Chamber executive said
housewives and business and
professional people report the
receipt of a wide variety of
goods they didn’t order and
don’t want, including books,
aprons, ties, handerkerchiefs,
fountain pens, wallets, station
ery and other items.
Many of them, Mr. Halll
said, are uncertain whether
they are obliged to comply
with the shipper’s request to
pay for the merchandise or re
turn it. “They are not aware
of their rights and liabilities
and are confused as to what
their attitude should be to
ward the unheralded package
delivered to them.”
Suggesting that the best way
to end this merchandising
evil is to make it unprofitable
for the senders, Mr. Hall set
forth these guidelines on t h e
care and treatment of unso
licited goods:
Recipients of un ordered
merchandise generally are not
obliged:
1. To acknowledge its re
cipt.
2. To return it.
3. To pay for it, unless used.
4. To give it particular care.
5. To keep it beyond a rea
sonable length of time.
They are obliged:
1. To surrender it to t h e
shipper or his agent, if called
for in person, within a reason
able period of time. In this
event, the recipient may de
mand the payment of storage
charges before relinquishing
the merchandise.
“As a practical matter.” said
the Chamber of Commerce,
“senders of unordered mer
chandise are rarely in a po
sition to institute suit for the
petty amounts involved and
they know it. Nevertheless,,
some shippers make nasty ■
threats designed to frighten
the timid into remitting or re
turning the goods.”
According to the National
Better Business Bureau, with
which the local Chamber is af
filiated, the use of dunning
letters which make threats to
compel the payment of money |
may be a violation of the so- 1
called extortion law. The Na- •
tional Bureau also reported ■
that:
The shipment of unordered
goods through the mails on a j
C. O. D. basis is specifically
barred by postal regulations. I
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iMRAN TALMAOM
I |
THE CONGRESS once again
Will be asked to raise the limit
on how deeply the federal gov
ernment can go into debt.
There actually is very little
members of the House and Sen
ate can do except go along now
that the debt already ha»-been
Incurred. The
United States
of course can
not, without fi
nancial tur
moil, default
on its obliga
tions.
Vigorous
protests, how-
ever, can and will be made
against the continued federal
fiscal policy of spending billions
more than what comes into the
treasury. This is far from sound
government, the danger of in
flation is ever present.
Though the debt ceiling un
doubtedly will be raised to au
thorize the government to pay
its obligations, the line must be
drawn somewhere and there
must be a return to the old
fashioned policy of balancing
the budget.
• • •
IN THE PAST 33 years, the
federal government has gone
into the red 27 times. The na-'
tional debt now stands at ap-,
proximately *304 billion, and if:
current spending proposals are
pushed through, it could rise to
3315 billion. Interest on the
debt is about 310 billion a year.
The proposed budget for the
next fiscal year, based on a sort
of “spend more and tax lea*” ।
theory, far exceeds realistic es
timates of revenue. This 1100
billion gtant needs to be cut/
down to size.
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Thursday. May IG. 19Gb
Those who ship unordered
merchandise through the mails
do so at their own risk. They
cannot collect from the Post
Office if the goods are alleged
ly lost or damaged because
goods sent through the mails
without an order are not in
surable.
The Chamber also said un
ordered goods are sometimes
sent through the mails in con
nection with a charity appeal
but noted that the merchandise
is often of a shoddy character
and that the percentage of the
dollar remitted which serves
a genuine philanthropic pur
pose is likely to be very min
or.
John Hall, Executive Direc
tor of the local Chamber, ad
vised donors to charity to con
tribute through organized
channels which make publio
accounting of the funds they
receive and how they spend
them.
Communism and
Americanism to
Get Study at WC
MILLEDGEVILLE — Geor
gia teachers are going to
school this summer to study
conflicts between Commu
nism and Americanism. About
1 000 are expected to attend
the summer institutes being
established at seven Georgia
colleges.
The 1962 Georgia General
Assembly paved the wav for
the institutes and the Board
of Regents of the University
System of Georgia has estab
lished centers through the
University System.
One of the seven institutes
will be at The Woman’s Col
lege of Georgia, and it will
run f-om June 10 - July 19. It
is to be under the direction of
Dr. James C. Bonner, chairman
of the social studies depart
ment. New students at WC
must a^nly twentv davs prior
to the opening of school.
The program at WC has
been titled “Communism Ver
sus American Democracy”.
“T^'s program has been es
pecially planned to make ava
ilable to interested Georgia
teachers both the historical
and contemnorarv information
needed for the effective teach
ing of social studies to young
Americans,” stated Dr. Bon
ner. “Attention will also be
given to how materials on tMs
tonic can be implemented in
th° classroom.”
The urogram at WC is open
to both men and women. Sec
ondary social studies teachers
and upper elementary teachers
will be especially interested.
11 Though it has been described
t as a “tight” budget, one that
- holds the line and makes some
reductions, it actually shows in.
e creases in some 450 expenditure
- items against some 250 reduced,
r About 30 new programs an^
*■ projects have been proposed.
* • •
THERE IS STILL anofW
side to all this spending by th*
federal government. More than
being just a fiscal problem, it
is a political problem, one which
the people should begin to reck®
on with.
Viewed from the standpoint
> of the more the federal govern®
[ ment spends the stronger anil
। more centralized it becomes,
। with state and local govern®
I ments growing weaker, herein
lies an ever-increasing serious
threat to our republican form
of government. Unlimited spend,
ing can lead to unlimited power,
with the federal government ul.
timateiy controlling all it sub®
sidizes.
It is interesting to note that
federal aid to state and local
governments in 1954 was 32.7
billion. Now it runs more than
*lO billion. So long as looking
to Washington for a federal
' handout is considered by th*
। short-sighted as a good thing,
more and more state and indi
vidual rights will be lost.
Unless the present trend is re®
versed, we msy see Washington
i become City Hall for the nation,
just as a columnist h»re warned
recently,
I