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We had a telephone call
from Mrs. Carroll, of Mansfield,
recently. She, on a recent trip
to Covington, noticed that the
DA R. Fountain, was missing
on the Public Square. Why
would she miss it? Because she
was a member of the local
D.A.R., and on the Committee
to select a suitable memorial
to the Sons and Husbands of
Newton County, who lost their
lives in World War 1. They
selected this beautiful granite
fountain, with appropriate in
scription to pay tribute to
Newton County's dead of World
War 1.
We drove to the square. It
was missing. We talked with
City Manager Bryan, who in
formed us that he had been
notified about three weeks ago'
that it had been broken up 1
and left on the ground in
pieces, supposedly by vandals.
He had the pieces picked up
and stored.
The local Chapter of the
DA R. would feel that some
effort should be made to lo
cate these vandals, who would
destroy this sacred Memorial
within our City Square, with
a view to having it replaced.
We believe the culprits can
be apprehended with a little
effort on the part of our effi
cient police department, when
they have been notified. A
small reward might bring quick
results. Certainly, not only
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Annual Flag Day
Ceremony at !
Elks Lodge, Eri.
Covington Elk's Lodge will
present its Annual Flag Day
ceremony at the Elks Lodge on
June 14th. Starting time, of the
program is set for 8 P.M. ‘
This is the day that has been
set aside as National Flag Day
and was first instituted by the
Elks Lodge.
The ceremony here will be,
a beautiful and impressive
ceremony, as well as one of
great patriotic significance and
the public is invited, according
to an announcement by C. T.
Bohanan, Exalted Ruler of
Covington Lodge No. 1806.
Herbert Lott, chairman of
the Elk's Flag Day Committee,
extends a cordial invitation to
everyone to attend this cere
mony at the Covington Lodge
this Friday evening at 8
o'clock.
Mr. Lott also appeals for
every flag in the community
tn he displayed on Friday, June
14th.
Dr. Count Gibson, Jr. Named
Chief of Staff Boston Dispensary
The appointment of Dr. |
Count D. Gibson. Jr. as Chief,
of Staff of the Boston Dispen- |
sary has been announced by
Augustin H. Parker, Jr., Presi
dent of the Dispensary's Board
of Managers. Mr. Parker noted
that Dr. Gibson will assume his
new responsibility on August
Ist, but will also continue in
his current position as Chief of
the Home Medical Service of
the Dispensary and Professor
and Chairman of the Depart
ment of Preventive Medicine
at Tufts University School of i
Medicine.
Dr Gibson succeeds Dr. Hans
Waine as Chief of Staff. Dr.
Waine will continue his clini
cal association with the Dis
pensary as Director of the ar
thritis program, and his teach
ing responsibility with Tufts
University School of Medicine
as Associate Professor of Med
icine.
In his new position, Dr. Gib
son will correlate the medical
activities of the Dispensary
which in addition to its more
than 35 out-patient clinics and j
its Home Medical Service, also
maintains a 35-bed Rehabili-i
tation Institute with out-pa-1
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CHA’^R-COMMERCE LAGS: DIRECTOR QUITS
Bloc .mobile To Visit Covington On June 20
Need Is 200 Donors For
Program Reinstatement
The Bloodmobile will be at the First Baptist Church In
Covington Thursday, June 20th, from 12 noon until 6 p. m.,
according to an announcement by Mrs. Dean Getz of the
local blood program.
The normal quota per visit
to Covington of the Bloodmo
bile unit is 150 pints. However,
the county has fallen behind
the quota in previous visits and
has lost its county-wide cover
age status, it was announced.
At the present time the New
ton County blood program has
coverage for the family of the
donor who can present a Red
Cross Credit Card.
It is hoped that the Blood
mobile visit this time will re
ceive some 200 pints. “We will
stand a very good chance of
getting our county-coverage
back even though we still owe
more than 100 pints,” a local
blood official stated Tuesday.
Who May Give Blood?
Any healthy person between
the ages of 18 and 59 inclusive.
Unmarried minors' (under 21)
must present written parental
permission for each donation,
unless in military service. Don
ors are permitted to give blood
only once every eight weeks,
but no oftener than 5 times in
, any 12 month period.
Is There A Charge For Blood?
No charge is EVER made for
Red Cross blood itself, since it
I is given by volunteer donors.
llf you require a blood trans
-1 fusion, a charge will be made
I by your hospital to cover the
necessary typing, “crossmatch
ing”, and other laboratory tests
safeguarding the transfusion.
This charge varies and is set by
the hospital. The Red Cross and
the hospitals in the region have
recently negotiated an agree
ment wherein the hospitals will
pa.v a part of the cost of col
lecting, processing and trans
porting the blood they require.
There is no charge for the
blood itself and the hospital's
; share of the expenses involved
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tient facilities, and has an ac
tive research program in vari
ous areas of physical and so
cial medicine. Dr. Gibson will
work with the Dispensary
Board of Managers and the
Administrator, Miss Abbie E.
Dunks, in maintaining and de
veloping medical policy and
future planning for the Dis
pensary as one of the units of
the Tufts-New England Medi
cal Center.
Dr. Gibson, born in Coving
ton. Georgia, in 1921, received
his Bachelor of Science Degree
in 1942 and his Doctor of
Medicine Degree in 1944, both
from Emory University in At
lanta. Georgia. Following a
medical internship at Colum
bia-Presbyterian Medical Cen
ter in New York, he served in
the U. S. Army Medical Corps
as Chief of the Laboratory
Service of the 110th Station
Hospital in Vienna, Austria un
til 1947. At that time he re
turned to Columbia - Presby
terian Medical Center for an
additional four years of resi
dency training
In 1951 he was named tn
the faculty of the Medical Col
lege of Virginia and the staff
of its hospital. He joined th?
faculty of Tufts and the staff
of the Boston Dispensary in
February of 1958.
Di. Gibson is married to the
former Katherine Vislocky of
New Yoi k City. They have
four children and live at 25
Berwick Road, Newton Cen-
Qty? Gnvingtnn Nmm
t'
i "Dairy Month”
Kiwanis Theme
;| Meeting Today
"June Dairy Month” is the
. I theme of the Covington Kiwan- !
. ! is Club program today (Thurs-
I day) at the American Legion
f 1 Home at 1 o’clock. County Ag- '
> j ent is in charge of the programi
> today.
I Speaker for the program will
be John Conner, Extension
। Milk Marketing Specialist, Uni-
I versify of Georgia College of
( Agriculture, Athens.
Donald Stephenson, Chair- I
, I man of the Kiwanis Club Agri- I
[’culture and Conservation
Committee, will introduce a
' group of local dairy farmers ।
[ who will be at the meeting.
’ Lions Will Present
. Womanless Beauty
Pageant Tonight
The Covington Lions Club :
• will present one of the most
i enjoyable shows of the season
• at the Newton County High
■ School Auditorium on Thurs
; day night, June 13. at 8 p.m.
■ when they present their "Wo
’ manless Beauty Pageant”.
Contestants in the “Beauty
; Pageant”, will be members of
the Lions Club and they will
be judged in evening gown,
bathing suit and talent.
Entires 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 i
be presidents of the various
other local clubs.
Admission for the show will
be sl. for adults and 50 cents
’ for students.
Old Receipts Show
Low Prices in
Covington in 1889
Old receipts found in the
home of the late Maybelle
I Shepherd in Oxford revealed
that prices of groceries and
' ginning cotton were just about
rock-bottom in Covington in
the late 1880’s.
Mrs. Shepherd's father, Thad
Walker, was issued a receipt
• from Heard. White and
11 Thompson of Covington. May
i 24. 1889, and showed that the
price of a 25-pound sack of
flour was 85 cents, 15 1/2
pounds of meat was $1.12. a
plug of tobacco 15 cents and
। two pounds of sugar 20 cents.
; In another receipt issued to
Thad Walker the following ap
peared: "Received of Thad
■ Walker $3.10 in full for gin
ning 2 balca of cotton. Signed:
S. L. Almand."
Mrs. Addie Jo Key, a cousin
of Mrs. Shepherd's, brought I
the old leeeipts tn the NEWS
i office.
Vacation Bible
School Underway
At No. Covington
Vacation Bible School is be
' ing held this week at North >
H Covington Methodist Church
■ from 9 until 11:30 a. m. througn
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963
Program Participants at Emory-at-Oxford Saturday
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PARTICIPANTS IN 1963 graduation at Emory at Oxford. Saturday. Last io right: Rev.
IJ. H. Barton, Dean V. Y. C. Eady. D. B. Lasseter, Dr. Luther A. Harrell and Dr. Dallas
M. Tarkenon. (More Emory graduation picture* on Third Front Page)
Electric Power
To Be Off in
City Sunday
Covington City Manager
Hank Bryan has announced
that the city's electric power
will be off Sunday afternoon.
June 16th from 1:30 until
about 6:30 p.m. in order to
make necessary repairs to the
lines.
In the event of bad weather
this interruption will take place
the following Sunday, June
23rd during the same hours.
Mr. Bryan stated that the
existing lines in the city are
"dangerously overloaded.
Grady Coleman Is Named Bank's
President- Is Nafive of Tiffon
The Board of Directors of
the First National Bank of
I Newton County has concluded
a long and careful search with
an announcement that J. Grady
Coleman of Tifton, Georgia,
will become the president of
the new bank.
Mr. Coleman, his wife, the
former Guinevere Decker of
Tift County, their daughter,
Connie Ruth, age 11 and son,
John Grady, age 7, will move to
Covington sometime after July
Ist. The Colemans are members
of the Baptist Church.
The 33 year old Coleman Is
the son of C. D. Coleman Sr. of
Tifton and Mrs. Coleman, who
passed away in 1950. A brother, i
Charley Coleman, lives in Tif
ton. I
A native of Fitzgerald, Geor
gia and Ben Hill County, Mr. ।
Coleman was born November
24. 1929 The family moved to
Tifton in January 1940. He a*-
tended public schools in Tifton
and graduated from high school
at G. M. C., Milledgeville in
1946 He completed two years
of college there and then served 1
lin U. S Naval Aviation on?
year on active duty and six >
years in the reserve.
Mr. Coleman has been with
the Citizens Bank of Tifton
since January 1955, and from
that time until the present has
served in the capacities of as
sistant cashier, secretary of the
Board of Directors, cashiei and
member of the Board of Direc
! tors.
In addition to his banking
( expei ence, Mt . Coleman ha?
served in many business, civic, I
Reading Club to
Open at Porterdale
PORTERDALE — Boys and
girls at Porterdale are interest
ed that they may join the Vac
ation Reading Club of the Por
terdale School Library on Mon
day, June 17, at ten-thirty
o’clock when it opens for the
first time this summer. Libra
rians will be Miss Pauline
Hardman. Miss Elizabeth Will
is, and Mrs. Charlotte Adams,
who will also be teaching at
the summer school sessions
which begin on June 17 and
continue on week-day morn
ings beginning at eight o’clock.
The library will be open each
week-day morning from ten-;
thirty to eleven-thirty o'clock. I
There are many wonderful and
new selections which should
entice boys and girls to journey
into distant lands and meet ex
citing new friends.
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GRADY COLEMAN
social and community oiganiz-'
ations. He is a charter member j
and past president of the Tifton
Jayiee>, a member of Tifton
’ Lodge No. 47 Masons, a mem
| ber of the Tifton Elks Lodge.
served as secretary, treasurer!
and member of the Board of.
Director* of the Tift County I
Red Cross Chapter, served a«
secretary, treasurer, vice-pre
sident and member of th?
board of the Tifton Touchdown
Club and chairman nf th?
Georgia Stale Tomato Festival.
In moving to Covington. M .
Coleman will give up his post I
on the Tift County Develop-
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' Covingtonians
Receive Degrees
Al Ga. Tech
ATLANTA, GA. Over
1,000 Georgia Tech students rc
। reived degrees in engineering,
science, architecture, applied
psychology, and industrial
management at the annual
commencement exercises Sat
urday, June 8. The ceremonies
were held at the Fox Theatre
at 8:45 A. M.
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Dir
ector of th? Office of Science
and Technology, Washington,
D. C., addressed the graduates
ion the subject. “Making the;
Most of Your Opportunities.”
President Edwin D. Harrison
presided and conferred the de
grees, after which the cadets of
. the Army, Navy, and Air Force
ROTC Units were sworn in as
commissioned officers:
Newton Countians receiving
degrees at the ceremony were:
Donald L. House, 321 Elm St.,
Covington, Ga., B. S. in Tex
; tiles; James Wayne Moore, 834
Petty St., Covington. Ga., B. of
Industrial Engineering; Don
ald C. Savage. Rt. 2, Cov
ington. Ga., B. S, in Industrial
Management.
3 Local Students
Receive Degrees
At Emory Exercise
ATLANTA. Gs — Some 864
graduates, the largest number in
j Emory University's 126 year his
; tory, heard Governor Donald S.
Russell of South Carolina speak at
commencement exercises Monday
afternoon. June 10. Governor Rus
। sell is a member of the univer
I sity's board of trustees.
Honorary degrees were present
ed to Gen Lucius D. Clay. Geor
gia diplomat and military leader;
Dr. C Vann Woodward. Sterling
; professor of history at Yale, and
! Dr. Martin D Young, associate
director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The latter two are Emory alumni
Bishop James W Henley of
Jacksonville preached th? bacca
laureate sermon Sunday at Glenn
Memorial Church.
Among the graduates from thi.
area were: Lyneath Voncile All
good of Oxford; Larry Mell Mcln
tosh of Route 3. Covington; James
Spence Ramsey. Jr.. 406 Floyd
Street. Covingion. and Lew? S
' Wrjodham, Covington. i
President Robinson Claims
Lack Os Support, Guidance
Extreme lack of interest and failure on the part of man*
of its members to lake part and guide the Covington-Newton
I County Chamber of Commerce has resulted in the resigna
tion of the organization's executive secretary and a clamor
for funds to meet current obligations amounting to $1,564.43.
In a meeting Tuesday night
at the Covington City Hall, 36
members present out of the
total membership of 115 re
viewed thf Chamber's finan
cial statement for the past year,
accepted the resignation of
See Editorial "Wake Up
Newton County" on editorial
page.
John Hall as executive secre
tary, effective June 15 and list
ened to three recommendations
। by its Board of Directors.
Board Keronunends
I Recommendations submitted
by the board were to: (1) con
tinue the Chamber of Com- j
■ merer as it is presently operat- '
ing; (2) go back to the status
of the Chambei as it was be- [
Marks and Son
Wins DHIA Award
T. L. Marks and Son of
। Mansfield won the county
DHIA Efficiency Award trophy;
Tuesday evening at a meeting
at Henderson's Res t a u r ant.
Second in the local field was
Leonard Standard and Jack
I Chandler was third.
The trophy to the first place
i winner was presented by Jim |
Quintrell of Southern Dairies!
, of Atlanta.
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Fund Rally Day
At Sardis Church
Set for Sunday
Building Fund Rally Day will
be held at Sardis Congregational
Christian Church on Sunday. June
16 Services will begin at 11 a. m
and dinner will be served at Ihe
church.
Singing will he held in the as
ternoon and all special singers in
the area aie cordially invited to
attend.
Death Claims
Mrs. Dingus at
Covington Home
Mr Carrie Black fW J.) Din
gus Jr., of 306 Clark Street, died
at her home here Sunday, June 9,
after a lingering illness. She was
a native of Newton County.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon. June 11, at 5
p. m at the graveside in Bethany
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
with Rev. Thomas J White, pastor
of the Covington Presbyterian
Church, officiating
Mrs. Dingus held a degree in
law and also a degree in jour
nalism and was n news reporter
for the Ashland IKv ) Daily In
dependent for more than 25 years.
She retired in 1951.
Surviving are her husband. Col.
William J Dingus Jr , one bro
ther. F W Black, sisters. M rs.
Nellie McDonald, all of Coving
ton and Mrs. P J Garrison
Sr. Greensboro. North Carolina
Caldwell and Cowan Funeral
Horne were in charge of the ser
vices in Bethany Cemetery with I
R D. CarnjrbeU. R L. Johnson, C. c
C. Hood Jr.. John S Prescott, c
John R Chesnut. Sam R Hay Jr., ;
Jay McCord. Webb Garrison Jr., I i
D K Hicks Jr. and B M. Paden
serving as pallbearers. J
The NEWS joins the friends of j
the family in extending deepest ;
sympathy to them in their aor- f
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fore June 1962; or (3) disband
the organization.
No official action was taken
on any of the recommendation
Tuesday night, but President
Ed Robinson told the members
present that current bills and
dues notices would be sent out
and another general meeting ‘ t
the organization would be call—
; ed in the near future.
Presidents Comments
"Newton County is not ready
mentally for a Chamber of
Commerce of this type," Pre -
' dent Robinson told the assem
bled group.
"There is a lack of Interest,
support, and Chamber guidance
.by members at the present
time, and I suggest that we go
back a step for the present,
| clear up our present obliga
tions, start building from
scratch again and make a
I come-back,” Robinson said.
Problems Faced
From the open diacuMton
Tuesday night it is apparent
that there is a general misun
derstanding on the part
members and the people of tn«
county as to the official func
tion of a Chamber of Com
merce.
Although the Chamber of
Commerce is for the better
ment and development of the
i community life as a whole,
I most people think the primary
function of the Chamber is io
। bring new industry into tht
county.
Many members of the Cov
। ington-Newton County Cham
i her of Commerce are indif
ferent to its activities to the
point that they don't even have
interest enough to attend
Chamber meetings.
These 4ame members, there
fore, don’t understand what
activities are going on and a •
the first to criticise the Cham
ber to the general public
rather than trying to bring
constructive criticism to th«
organization's Board of Direc
[ tors.
Existing Attitude
Pi evident Robinson s state
ment that "Newton County ia
not ready mentally for a Cham
। ber of Commerce of this type.”
was a tactful way of recojmz
mg that there has for sometimt
been an open split in tht
| Chamber's membership and in
' the city of Covington.
This condition exists because
of the disunity of merchanta
"downtown" and in the “Cov
ington Meadows Shopping Cen
i ter area".
General opinion at Tuesday
nights meeting was that there
is no co-operative effort be
tween “all the merchants" of
Covington and Newton County
to work together, either as a
Chamber of Commerce or in
dividually, to build a mote
prosperous business area and
promote Newton County and
Covington rather than certain
areas or specific business d $-
tricU.
Masons to Honor
Dr. Roscoe Sams
Dr. Roscoe Sams of Coving
ton will be honored at a Gol
den Fleece Lodge No. 6 special
ceremony Tuesday, June 25th
at the Masonic Hall in Cov
ington.
Dr. Sams will receive a 50-
year pin on the occasion. Sup
per will be served at 7 o'clock
and all Masons and their
friends are invited. The presen
tation will follow the supper.
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