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Do you like to play “Pass
word”? Well come on fellows
and girls! Join in the game,
everybody in Newton County!
The password is “MENTAL
HEALTH.” Everybody can be
a winner. All you have to do is
drop your check in the mail to
Donald Stephenson, Treasurer.
Court House, Covington, Ga.
If you can't give a thousand
dollars, just remember when
all the SIOO, the $50.00, the
$25.00, the tens, fives, ones and
dimes are counted they will
make a few thousands if every
body will have a part in this
great humanitarian work. Now
at the moment you read this
you will say “Where does this
money go.?” There are five
fields of activity of Newton
County Mental Health Associ
ation. RESEARCH- into causes,
and better methods of care and
treatment: Legislation to help
bting about progressive laws
and establish more and better
facilities for care and treat
ment. SERVICE-through con
aultation. emergency, financial
aid, rehabilitation, morale pro
grams for patients. Public and
professional education and
scholarships for TRAINING of
professional personnel. All our
financial support comes through
a county-wide fund drive held
each May.
Our ambition for this year is
three fold: 1- We want to see a
modern center in Newton Co
unty comparable to those in
surrounding counties. The fed
eral Government and State will
furnish two-thirds of the funds
for a new building and equip
ment. We in Newton County
will only have to furnish one
third of the money plus the
land. WHAT a Challenge! Let’s
go over the top on our quota.
It is anticipated that the New
ton County MH Association will
have use of a room in the heal
th center to be used for a Guid
ance Clinic for Psychiatric
counseling. Your MH A would
pay the expenses of such a
clinic. 2- We, through the
Georgia MHA, plan to supple
ment the educational program
for school age children who are
patients at the State Hospital.
We, through the state organi
zation, are providing trained
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Retired Chaplain to
Speak Sunday at
First Methodist
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CHAPLAIN W. G. DAVIS
Chaplain W. Graham Davis,
retired Lt. Colonel from the
US Air Force, will preach at
the First Methodist Church,
Covington, next Sunday at the
11 00 o'clock service.
Chaplain Davis is a native
of Marietta and is a member
of the North Georgia Metho
dist Conference.
Before entering the military
chaplaincy, he served Metho
dist churches at Bishop, Peach
tree Road. Atlanta, and Union
Point. Ga.
He received his BPh and BD
degrees from Emory University.
Hr is now making his home
in Oxford. Ga.
Little League to
Sell Doughnuts
Little league baseball play
ers will be selling “Krispy
Kieme" doughnuts this Friday
i and Saturday tn raise money
k to help pay for equipment that
I they are now using.
The boys will sell door-to-
I door, around the square, and
a' Covington Meadows Shop
| ping Center The doughnuts
I will he 50 cents a box You are
u”grd to support the Little
■League players in thoe efforts.
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
| 1962
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'n 1X64 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
The Covington
VOLUME 99
NEK. uN HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS 133 DIPLOMAS
Fisher Announces Summer Recreation Schedule
Teen Council, Swimming
Lessons, Games Offered
Covington will offer its youth a summer recreation pro
gram that will include swimming instruction for beginners
and intermediates, supervised games, and teenage dances
this year, according to Wilbur Fisher, recreation director.
All children and teenagers
are urged to participate in the
summer program. The Coving
ton swimming pool, owned and
operated bv the Kiwanis Club,
and the Teen Can Building,
owned by the Rotary Club, will
be availible for use in carrying
out the summer program.
Swimming Instruction
Classes for both beginning
and intermediate swimmers
on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday. There will be twe
lve lessons for each group that
will last 45 minutes each.
Parents of children desiring
to enlist in the beginner and
intermediate swimming classes
are urged to bring the children
to the Covington Swimming
Pool Thursday or Friday, June
Seoul Visitors
Attend Rotary
Club Meeting
The Covington Rotary Club
had visitors from several sur- I
rounding states at their meet
ing Tuesday. The visiting Ro
tarians were making up their
meeting while attending the
Region 6 National Boy Scout |
Camping School being held at
the Bert Adams Scout Reser
vation this week.
Those attending were Ed
Bass, South Carolina; Russell
McClann, North Carolina; Nor
man W. Stephens. Brunswick,
Ga.; Joe Tyson, Florida; Bill
Sawyer, Marietta. Ga.; and
Penny Jones, director of Camp
Gorman at the Reservation.
Other visitors were Albert ;
Lee of Atlanta and W. R. Por- ’
ter of Newborn.
The program was presented
by Bud Dennison who recent- ;
ly attended the Rotary Con
vention held on Jekyll Island.
Mr. Dennison took some movies
while at the convention and he
showed these movies to the
club and discussed some of the
activities and business sessions
that he attended at the con
vention.
Covington News
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THE 1963 NEWTON COUNTY High School graduating class it ihown
during exerc’a** Monday night m they stood to sing their class song for
the last time as a group. The 133 graduates in this class comprise the third
(Ummtgtiitt Xmus
6-7, and sign them up for
classes with Mr. Fisher.
A small charge of 25 cents
will be made for each lesson.
The lessons will be set-up ac
cording to the Red Cross man
ual and qualified instructors
will be in charge.
The beginners class will start
on June 10. and end on June
28. Intermediate classes will
begin July 1, and end July 19.
Classes will begin at 8:45 a. m.
and end at 9:45 a. m. allowing
for dressing and special work.
Supervised Games
Mr. Fisher said that super
vised games of softball, basket
bal 1, volleyball, badminton,
tennis, ping-pong and others
will be held for the young
people throughout the summer.
A schedule of the time and
j place for these events will be
| designated at a later date and
i will be published in the NEWS.
Teen Program
Present plans for the teen
agers include continuing the
present activities and organiz
ation of a "Teen Club” and a
"Teen Council,”
The Teen Can building will
be open on Friday and Satur
day nights from 8:00 p. m.
until 10:30 p. m. for dancing
and games. Plans are to have
a dance band to play every
other Saturday night that will
play from 8:00 p. m. until 11:30
p. m. at the Teen Can.
Lions Will Present
Womanless Beauty
Pageant Saturday
The Covington Lions Club
will present one of the most
। enjoyable shows of the season
lat the Newton County High
i School Auditorium on Thurs
day night, June 13. at 8 p.m.
when they present their “Wo
manless Beauty Pageant”.
Contestant in the “Beauty
Pageant”, will be members of
the Lions Club and they will
be judged in evening gown,
bathing suit and talent.
Entries are: Miss Spent,
Tommy Broderick; Miss Laid,
J. B ' Dial; Miss Fit. Bill
Vaughn; Miss Laid, H. E. Col
lier; Miss Fire, James Lord;
Miss Conduct, Neal Banks; Miss
Fortune. Melvin Allen and Miss
Taken. W. A. Childers.
Judges of the contest will be
presidents of the various other
local clubs.
; Admission for the show will
be sl. for adults and 50 cents
for students.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963
Newton High Honor Graduates
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SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS among the 1963 Newton County High School graduating
class are shown at graduation exercises held Monday night at the high school gymnasium.
Seated left to right are: Betty Jean McElreath, SIOOO Billie Porter Memorial Scholarship;
Carol George, Rotary Achievement Award for girls; Rosemary Smith, DAR Good Citizen
ship Award for girls: Anita Varner, Lithonia Lighting Company Scholarship; Lynda Holi
field, Greenleaf Business College Scholarship: Delores Ann Haney, Covington Pilot Club
Nursing Scholarship; (standing) Denny Dobbs, Rotary Achievement Award for boys; Joe
Shiver, Kiwanis Club SSOO Scholarship; and Alva Spillers, DAR Good Citizenship Award
for boys.
Emory-at-Oxford To Award 113
Diplomas, Lasseter To Speak
About 113 will receive certificates indicating satisfactory
completion of their work on the Oxford campus, Saturday
June 8.
The Honorable Dillard B.
Lasseter of the Emory class of
1913 is the speaker for the oc
casion at 10:30 a.m.
Mr. Lasseter is a native
Georgian, holds an A.B. de
gree from Emory, a Master’s
Degree from New York Uni
versity, has served in the Unit
ed States Foreign Service, was
in Who's Who in America for
1960-61, and currently occupies
offices in Washington, D. C.
He will address the gradu
ates on “The Influence of the
Classical Tradition.”
Dean Virgil Y. C. Eady will
present certificates and awards.
At 12:15 lunch will be served
on the quadrangle.
A significant event of this day
will be the reunion of the class
of 1913. In addition to the
speaker, Rev. J. Hamby Barton,
who will give the invocation,
and Dr. Luther A. Harrell, whe
will pronounce the benediction,
are members of this class.
largest class to ever graduate from Newton County High School. The
largest class was in 1960 with 154 graduating, and the classes of 1956 and
1959 tied with 136 graduates each.
I Justice Bond Almand of the
Supreme Court of Georgia is
the Counselor of the 1913 class.
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DILLARD B. LASSETER
Following lunch, the group
i will celebrate the golden an
। niversary of their graduation
at an on-campus meeting. Then
they will visit the home of Mr.
W A. Carlton, who is a mem-
I ber of the class and professor
emeritus of Latin of Emory.
Other classes holding a re
union on this day are those
ending in three and eight.
It is also the celebrated day
of the Annual Pilgrimage of
j Emory Aluinni to Oxford.
Bible School Set
At Canaan Baptist
Canaan Baptist Cl)ureh will
hold their annual Vacation
Bible School Monday through
Friday, June 10-14, from 9
until 12 noon.
Saturday, June 8, from 9 30
until 11:30 a. m. will be Prepar
atjon Day and all children are
.equesled to attend at this
time to be icady fir the open
ing of the Bible School on
Monday morning.
Betty Jean McElreathßeceives
Coveted Porter Scholarship
Graduation exercises for 133 members of the Newton
County High School Class of 1963 were held Monday night
al the school gymnasium. This class, the third largest to
graduate in the history of Newton High had as the theme
of its graduation program "America—Our Heritage.”
The exercises were opened
with the Invocation by Ronnie
Lynch and a Welcome by Day
Morcock. A talk. "The Glorious
Heritage of the Past” was pre
sented by Alva Spillers, and
was followed by a piano duet,
"Waltz," by Tschaikowskv, hy
Jane Richardson and Billy
Blair.
Carol George spoke on “The
Glorious Heritage in the Fu
ture", and Denny Dobbs spoke
on a challenge: "The Heritage
in the Present."
Gary Budd played "Concer
to" by Haydn as a trumpet
Solo before Troyanne Thigpen
spoke on "Creating a Glorious
Heritage for Those to Come."
"America Our Heritage"
rang out through the gymnas
ium as the 133 graduates stood
' lo sing their class song for the
' last time as members of the
’ Newton High student body.
Words of Appreciation
•! Mr. Homer F. Sharp, princi-:
> pal of Newton County High
> School, expressed words of ap
j preciation on behalf of the
faculty, student body, and the
graduating class to County
School Superintendent Whitlow I
Richardson, the Newton Co
unty School Board, City and j
County Officials, The Coving
ton News and Radio Station
WGFS, and the civic and fra- ;
ternal organizations of the ■
county for the interest and sup- ।
port that had been given to the
। school and the graduating class
during the past school year. .
Attendance Awards
Pei feet attendance records |
among the graduates weie re- ■
;cognized by Mr. Sharp accord-i
ing to the number of years,
I members of the graduating!
class had attended ichool with- 1
. out missing a day.
Those graduates recognized
were: (1 year) James Knignt
■ and Bob Wheeler; (2 years)
Dianne Carson, Mollye Daw
kins, and Cornelia Haulk;
(three years) Trent Costlcy
and Kay Parham; (4 years)
Rose Mary Laster and Carolyn
’ I Strange; (5 years) Gail Duncan, ■
Cecilia Haulk, Roy Henderson.
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First Baptist Bible School Will
Start Monday; Registration Friday
Monday, June 10, the Fust
Baptist Church of Covington
I will begin its Vacation Bible
I School.
The boys and girls are be
ing asked to come by the
church Friday afternoon June
। 7, to register for the school be
tween the hours of 2 and 4:30
PM
The church will not hold the
usual Prepaiation Day, but will
limit the activities of Friday I
afternoon to that of enrollment. [
All of the young people at
tending will be on hand Mon
day morning at 8:30 and will
be dismissed at 11:30. The
faculty will u-e the depart
mental procedure.
Macedonia Church
Sets Bible School
The Vacation Bible School
for Macedonia Baptist Church
will begin on Monday, June 10, |
at 8:30 a m and continue
through Friday, June 14.
Registration day w.iil begin I
tomorrow (friaay) June 7. ।
Everyone is asked to come and
| study God's word with us.
Best Coverage
News, Pictures,
and Features
NUMBER 23
Art Booth Joins
Advertising Staff
/it
Mr. Art Booth of Covington
has joined the staff of Th«
Covington News as advertisinj
assistant and printing sale -
man Mr. Booth has for tin
past 18 months been associated
with Holliday Lanes as man
ager.
Previous to becoming a bo'A !-
ing lane manage, Mr. Boi., i
was employed in the advert: -
mg department of The Augus’a
Chronicle, which is the South',
oldest newspaper having been
established in 1785.
At the Cronicle Mr BoOt'i
worked in the classified adve.-
tiaing and the display advri
tising departments. Beloit
joining the Chronicle staff I ,
was employed by tbe Spec I
Printing Company in August i
as a printing salesman.
Mr. Booth is married to the
formei Vivian Rachels । f
Louisville, Ga. and they ha . a
■ children The family i
des at 107 Elizabeth Street ir>
Covington.
A veteran of both World War
Il and the Korean Conduct, Mr.
Booth is a member of the Vet~-
runs of Foreign Ware and tn
Covington Elks Lodge No 1806.
B >ys and girls four and firs
years of age will meet in the
Beginner Department, wiih
M. Bert Adams as Superin
tendant; those six, seven and
eight years of age will meet n
the Primary Department wil l
Mrs. Maurice Griffin as Su
perintendant; and, those of
.Junior age (9-12) will be un
der the direction of Mrs. Ge -
aid Buttram.
One change of great interest
to young people in their teens
will be the conference he’d
each evening under the dilu
tion of Mis. Clark Durpo.
Many of the young people of
this age have summer jobs ai I
this time should make it po —
sible for them to meet. Tn a
evening session will last from
7:30 until 9 00 P M.
There will be a picnic on th*
last day (Friday) at the Lions
Club Pavilion. The com
mencement exercise will I e
hold on Sunday night June 16,
Mis. Edgar Callaway will sc ■ •
as Principal of the school. AT
boys and girls of tile chi t
are urged to attend* and ail
boys and girls who ’have no
church affiliation are. cordial
ly inv.tad.