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Officers and deacons of the Macedonia Baptist Church are shown after
their annual homecoming service held Sunday. Left to right are: James
L. Guthrie, deacon; Mrs. James West Jr., wife of pastor; Charles Cole,
youngest member; Mrs. T. G. Boggus, oldest member; Mrs. W. E. Daws,
Macedonia Has Large Crowd
At '63 Annual Homecoming
Macedonia Baptist Church, constituted in 1852, was still
thriving Sunday as worshipers gathered for the annual
Homecoming Service and dinner on the grounds. Homecom
ing day also launched a week long revival at the church
with the Rev. W. H. Sheffield, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church
of Conyers, bringing the messages.
Rev. James P. West Jr., pas
tor of Macedonia Baptist
Church, brought the morning
message dedicating four new
Sunday School rooms which
were recently completed.
After the morning service
members, past members, and
friends gathered around the
picnic tables in the shady
church yard to have lunch and
enjoy the fellowship. Approxi
mately 140 persons were pres
ent at the morning service and
Homecoming dinner.
New Growth
Macedonia Baptist Church
has experienced a new surge
of growth during the past sev
eral years and has a new Sun
day School building with sev
eral classes, a kitchen, and two
rest rooms.
During the past year four
new Sunday School rooms have
been added at a cost of ap
proximately $3,600. In the past
two years a well was drilled
to secure fresh water and the
church received a new coat of
paint inside and out.
1/0 Musicians Report to Middle
Tenn. College Summer Music Camp
The Thirteenth Annual Sum
mer Music Camp opened Sun
day afternoon with some 170
musicians reporting from 32
cities throughout the North and
South. The weeks supervised
activities will include daily re
hearsals, student recitals, pri
vate lessons, section rehearsals,
swimming, and a concluding
concert. The week will be cli
maxed with a concert by the
wind ensemble, the symphonic
(See Picture On Page 2)
band and the chorus. This
program will be presented in
the Tennessee room of the
Student Union Building on
Sunday afternoon at 2:30. The
public is invited to attend.
Os special interest to musici
ans of the area will be the ap
pearance of Mr. Leonard Smith,
world renowned cornet and
trumpet performer who will
present two clinics on Wed
nesday afternoon. On Thursday
and Friday afternoons Mr. Nilo
Hovey of the Selmer Band In
strument Company will pre
sent lectures on Woodwind
Instruments and Rehearsal
Techniques. Mr. Hovey is
known throughout the country
as ar. authority on bands ln
atrumentai directors in this
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
Ronald Kitchens to
Attend Aviation
Mate's School
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. —
Ronald R. Kitchens, airman,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rem
bert C. Kitchens of 210 Adams
St., Covington. Ga., is slated to
attend Aviation Electrician’s
Mate Class “A” School at the
Naval Air Technical Training
Unit, Jacksonville, Fla.
The 22-week course provides
; selected enlisted personnel with
the basic training in the Navy’s
aviation electrician’s mate rat
ing in preparation for special
ized duties with naval aviation
units.
It includes theory of direct
current, aircraft power systems,
alternating current theory,
basic electronics, aircraft sys
tems and line maintenance. In
addition, students receive re
fresher classes in mathematics
and physics as well as the basic
theories of naval aviation.
area are invited to attend as
the guests of Middle Tennessee
State College.
The Summer Music Camp
Faculty consists of neil Wright,
Joseph T. Smith, Margaret
Wright, Horace Beasley and
Kenneth Pace all of the Middle
Tennessee State College Music
Faculty. In addition the follow
ing high school directors will
supplement .the above: Bill
Hull, Columbia. Tennessee:
Tom Tucker, Columbia, Tenn
essee: James Williamson, Har
■ riman, Tennessee, Bob Lee,
Pulaski, Tennessee: and Joe
Van Sickle, Smyrna, Tennessee.
The enlarged faculty will en
able the musicians to receive
private lessons and more in
dividual attention than has
been possible before.
Students attending from
Covington, are: Hugh McDon
ald, Jr., Phil Waters, H. B.
Adams, Charles Reynolds, Ed
: gar Callaway, Nelson Hoffman,
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In 1962, polio affected 886
I persons, a decline of 35 percent
from the year befor°. Five
years ago there were 6,092 po
lio cases, according to Health
' Specialist Miss Luciie Higgin
botham of the Extension Se.-
i vice.
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State Welfare Dept. Reports
Record Service Rendered in Year
Financial aid to Public As
-1 sistance recipients in Georgia
Iby the State Department of
Family and Children Services
' during the year ended June
130, 1963, totaled $93,468,161.-
23. according to Mrs. Bruce
Schaefer. This financial assis
i tance was to a monthly aver
age of 168.700 needy individ
uals in four categories of pub
lic welfare, the State depart
ment director said.
She announced that those
aided by this public assistance
included a monthly average
of 92.368 Old Age Assistance
individuals: 3.096 Aid to the
Blind Recipients; 48,212 chil
dren through Aid to Families
with Dependent Children; and
24.986 Aid to the Partially and
Totally Disabled individuals.
Total expenditures by the
State Department of Family
and Children Services for the
fiscal year ended June 30 in
cluded $86,056,203 in “direct
money payments” to the re
cipients, and $7,411,958.23 in
"vendor medical care pay
ments,” the report stated. The
latter consisted of $4,211,428.-
58 for “nursing home care” and
$3,200,529.65 for “hospital care”
of adults receiving public as
sistance.
The direct payments to re
cipients involved the prepara
tion and mailing by the State
office of 1,643,335 public as
sistance checks.
Funds for the public assis
tance expenditures during the
fiscal year came from these
sources, Mrs. Schaefer said:
| 18.9 per cent from the State
of Georgia, 3.7 per cent from
Georgia counties, and 77.4 per
cent from the Federal govern
ment. "These fund source? are
determined by prescribed
matching formulas of the Wei-
Stale to Grant
Newton $62,401
For Road Use
Newton County will receive $62.-
401 from the State of Georgia dur-
I ing fiscal 1963-64 for use in help
ing to maintain public roads in
the county.
Each fiscal year, in monthly
payments, the State Treasurer
pays a total of approximately $9
I million to the 159 counties for
road maintenance use. During
fiscal 1963-64, the total will, be $9 -
. 317,013. Total amount and propor-
I tionate share to each county vary
I with the public road mileage in
each county.
This county .grant money is tak
en from state fuel tax revenue.
Os the $62,401 in road help
which Newton County will receive,
| taxes paid on fuel for use in
truck; represents approximately
1 $15,725. I
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
treasurer; and Mrs. T. E. Malcom, clerk; (standing) Tom Jones, deacon;
Edwin Moss, deason and song director; Rev. James P. West Jr., pastor;
W. E. Daws, chairman of the Board of Deacons and S. S. Superintendent;
and Elven Fuller, deacon and Training Union director.
I fare Administration of the U.
S. Department of Health, Edu
cation, and Welfare,’’ she ex
■ plained.
In comparison, she said, of
the $87,295,863.60 in total ex
penditures for the preceding
| fiscal year, 20.7 per cent of the
j funds came from the State, 3.9
per cent from the counties, and
75.4 from Federal sources.
Analysis of State public wel
fare expenditures of ten years
ago for the year ended June
30. 1953, showed that 26 1 per
cent of the $52,868,662.30 to
tal was from State funds, 4.0
per cent from county funds,
and 69.9 per cent from Federal
; sources.
! “Public assistance benefits
: disbursed by the State Depart
ment during the year ended
i June 30, 1963. were 8.3 times
{ what they were during that ’
1 ended in 1946,” Mrs. Schaefer
I said. “By sources, State con-
I tributions were 3.5 times as
'much; county participation
was 6.2 times as much, while
I the Federal share was 12.8
times as much.” she added.
Lovejoy Homecoming Held Sunday
Homecoming Sunday at Lovejoy Methodist Church on
the Covington-Jackson highway was another memorable
occasion for the members, former members and friends of
the church. Guest speaker for the morning service was a
former pastor, John T. Parker.
The noontime meal served
picnic style in the church-yard
amid the shade trees, offered
an abundance of delicious food
to all who came to enjoy the
day of fellowship with Love-
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HOMECOMING AT LOVEJOY Methodist Church was a memorable event,
especially to these members of the church's official family. From left to
right, front row: Nathan Johnson, Carroll Johnson, J. D. Smith, Tommy
। Lassiter, Mrs. Tommy Lassiter, Mrs. Clyde Dodd, Jimmie Gillham, L. H.
Change in Status
May Affect S.S.
Benefit Status
E. L. Rawls, social security |
i district manager, Atlanta to- i
day reminded social security |
beneficiaries to report any
event that affects payment of
their benefits.
Some of the events which ■
must be reported to the Social ;
Security Administration are:
1. Work by a beneficiary I
under age 72 if the person's,
earnings will exceed SI2OO dur
ing the year.
2. Any work done by a per
son receiving disability insur
ance benefits.
3. Marriage of a woman re-
I ceiving widow’s benefits or of
a child under 18 receiving
benefits on his parent's social
security earnings record.
4. Adoption of a child under
18 entitled to benefits.
5. Death of a person receiv-
I ing social security benefits.
I (Should be reported by decen- J
! dent's survivors).
Mr. Rawls said a person i
i should get in touch with the
| social security office if he has !
| questions about his social sec- :
। urity checks or about report- !
ing any events.
I joy neighbors and many from ;
I distant points.
Rev. Parker chose for his
Homecoming subject “You;
Can t Go Home Again, But!
I You Can Go Home." Irby Ed- |
Rev. Jas. Bohanan
Is New Pastor at
Midway Baptist
The Midway Baptist Church
on Flat Shoals Road will wel
come its new pastor, the Rev.
James W. (“Pete”) Bohanan
on Sunday, August 4th.
Rev. Bohanan is the son of i
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bohanan of I
the Stewart community. He is
a graduate of Truett-McCon
nell Baptist Junior College,
Mercer University, and South
eastern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest,
North Carolina. Before return
ing to Newton County, he pas
tored churches in North Caro
lina.
The Midway Church began
as a Mission of the High Point
Baptist Church in January '
1961 with Bryant Steele serv- |
ing as lay pastor. In January
1962, it was constituted into a
church and the Rev. J. P.
Sheffield served as supply pas
tor until July of the same year
when the church called the
Rev. Jerry Watson, a Mercer
graduate. He leaves the pas
torate to enter Seminary in the
Fall.
Donald L. House
Completes Officer
Course in Texas
FORT BLISS. TEX. — Army
I 2d Lt. Donald L. House, whose
wife Nicki, lives at 81 Wood
ruff St., McDonough, Ga., is
scheduled to complete an offi
cer orientation course at The
Air Defense Center, Fort Bliss,
, Tex., Sept. 12.
During the course Lieutenant
House is receiving instruction
in the duties and responsibili
ties of an officer in the Army
Air Defense Command (ARAD
COM),
The lieutenant is a graduate
of Newton County High School,
Covington, and received a B. S.
degree from the Georgia Insti
tute of Technology, Atlanta.
The 21-year-old officer is
the son of Mrs. Almeda J.
House, 320 Elm St., Route 3,
Covington.
Revival Services
At Sardis Baptist
Revival services will begin
Sunday, August 4. at Sardis Bap
tist Church in Henry County with
the morning service at 11 a. m.
Homecoming will be observed with
a basket dinner at noon and sing
ing Sunday afternoon.
| Rev. Argin Floyd will be the
guest evangelist with services
i each evening Monday through Fri
day at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Cecil Gil
mer, pastor, cordially invites the
I public to attend the services.
wards was the song leader, and |
Mrs. Tommy Lassiter intro-:
duced Rev. Parker.
Special music was rendered
by Sam with his daughter
Nancy Mask, accompanying
him. A special word of appre
ciation and welcome was giv
en by the pastor, Rev. Robert
Blasingame.
The afternoon song service
Bates and Clyde Dodd. Back, left to right: Henry Parker, Rev. Robert
Blasingame, E. M. McCart, J T. Smith, Emmett Callahan, Rev. John T.
Parker (Homecoming preacher), Hodgie Loyd, Rev. Leon Burger. Irby
Edwards, Elvin Loyd, Sam Mask and Wallace Aiken.
Prof. Harold W. Mann Accepts
Position with Radford College
Harold W. Mann of Oxford,
who has been connected with
Emory-at-Oxford since 1951,
I has accepted a position on the
I faculty of Radford College,
I Radford, Virginia, where he
will be in the Social Studies
Department of the college.
Professor Mann, a native of
Columbus, is the son of the
Rev. and Mrs. D. G. Mann of
Macon, formerly of Columbus,
a retired minister of the South
Georgia Methodist Conference.
Prof. Mann is a graduate of
Emory University with an AB
and MA degree. He did gradu
ate work in history at Wiscon
| sin and Duke Universities and
i received his Ph.D. in history
at Duke in 1962 with his dis
sertation on. “The Life and
Times of Atticus G. Haygood”.
A pianist and organist of
note, he had served as organist
at the Martha Brown Metho
dist Church, Atlanta; choir di
rector at Trinity Methodist
Church, Durham, North Caro
lina and assistant choir direc
tor of Duke Chapel Choir. He
was presently director of the
Emory - at - Oxford Glee Club,
Women’s Chorale and the Mix
.ed Chorus. Besides his work
I with the music departments of
| the school he had extensive
accompaning experience and
was also choir director of the
First Methodist Church in Cov
ington.
I I
A veteran of World War 11
. he was active in the musical
: program at Biarritz American
University in Biarritz, France.
He was also a past president
i] of the Covington Music Club,
i In 1956 he married the form-
Represent Church
At Conference
Mrs. Jesse Byrd to
; Mrs. Jesse D. Byrd has been
. chosen to represent the Gum
, Creek Presbyterian Church at
the Church Extension Confer
ence which is held at Montreat.
N. C. from August 1-7. This
Conference is under the spon
sorship of the Town and Co
untry Church Department of
i the Southern Presbyterian
- Church.
1 There will be a daily pro
• ‘ gram of study for pastors,
i church leaders and teachers
-; Each evening there will be
vesper services and preaching
* services.
' j Milton O. Freeman of Lith
i onia and Mrs. Byrd are the
■ i only ones representing the At
’ lanta Presbytery in this Con-
I ference.
was held after the dinner-on
the-ground. Other events
marking the Homecoming and i
start of the revival were: 6:30 J
Methodist Youth Fellowship,!
7:15 Young People Service,
7:30 Song Service with Wal
lace Edwards bringing the spe
cial music, and 7:45 the Re
vival started with Rev. Parker
preaching on the subject “How
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PROF. HAROLD MANN
er Betty Parks of Durham,
North Carolina and they have
three children, Harold Wilson
Jr., born in March 1957; Martha
Blair, born in February, 1959
I and baby Janet who was born
I in May of this year.
Best wishes go with Prof.
Mann and his family as they
take up their new residence in
Radford where their addre.-j
I will be: Prof. Harold W. Mann,
I Halwick, Ayler Ave., Radford,
. Virginia.
Hays Barbecue
Held Saturday
A highlight of the summer
season is the annual Hays bar
j becue which this year was held
Saturday, July 27, at Lazy
Acres Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Eth
j ridge Hays and Mr. and Mrs.
' A. E. Hays Jr., each year hold
a barbecue which gathers fam
ily members, friends and farm
employees for an enjoyable day.
j The delicious barbecue with
all the trimmings was served
on long tables by the lake. Ap
proximately 180, not counting
farm employees and their fami
lies, enjoyed the day.
Homecoming Sun.
At Mt. Pleasant
Homecoming will be held at
the Mount Pleasant Methodist
Church on Sunday, August 4,
1963. The pastor, Rev. Charles
R. Thomas, Jr., will bring tha
' morning message.
A basket lunch will be serv
ed, and everyone is invited to
stay for singing and feilow
’ ship in the afternoon.
^God Calls A Youth To Full
i Time Christian Service”
The Lovejoy Revival will
• continue through Friday even
ing, August 2. Rev. Parker’s
subject this evening (Thurs
day) will be "What Is My
: Church Membership,” and Fri
day evening his subject will be
"Aldersgate and The New
Creation.”
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