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j THE COVINGTON NEWS
f ‘ ALMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN Ob
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
National Newspaper Week
Calls For Attention
The week of October 13 through Octo
ber 19 is National Newspaper Week across
the country. More facts are brought to the
attention of the public during this parti
cular week than at any time of the year.
More Americans are reading newspapers
more thoroughly than ever before.
There must be a reason.
Despite the decline in the total number
of newspapers, total newspaper circulation
in the United States today is at an all-time
high.
There must be a reason.
The reason must have something to do
with newspapers — and people.
There is a special affinity between them,
between newspapers and people. People
must feel a great identity of interest with
their newspapers. One of the reasons may
well be that the printed word requires
more of its readers than any other media.
Readers get more out of newspapers be
cause they put more of themselves — more
of their own thinking — into their news
papers.
We do not speak disparagingly of other
news media; quite the opposite. We think
that radio and television reporting is a tre
mendous boon to our democracy.
Radio and television reporting greatly
expands the surface of public knowledge.
In our judgment most newspapers great
ly expand the depth of public knowledge.
The fullest, the most dramatic, the most
conclusive evidence that newspapers are
really crucial to the lives of most Ameri
cans — and, indeed, to their very way of
life — is what happened in New York, Min
neapolis and Cleveland when newspapers
strikes left these cities newspaper-less for
months.
Something very meaningful, something
taken for granted when it was present but
greatly prized when, abruptly, it was ab
sent, went out of the lives of millions of
people in these communities when there
were no newspapers.
We believe the reason is that while the
printed word can be supplemented by other
media, it cannot be replaced as the most
reliable, the most accessible, the most
meaty and the most satisfying source of in
formation and insight in this very anxious
world.
During the long strikes the newspaper
was grievously missed — and nothing was
able to take its place.
That is what we mean when we say
there is a special affinity between newspa
pers — between the printed word — and
people.
Nothing could take their place and it is
our duty to make newspapers continuously
better so that nothing can take their place-
Better Well-Enough Alone
“Read the Label”, is the advice of t h e
Food and Drug Administration of the US
Department of Health, Education and Wel
fare, offered to the nation’s consumers in
a booklet of that title. Its opening state
ment says:
“Enforcement of the Federal Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act is a service to pro
tect the health and pocketbook of the con
sumer and the operations of law-abiding
industries. The large majority of American
food, drug, device and cosmetic manufac
turers are producing the safest, cleanest,
most informatively labeled items ever av
ailable to the public.” (And this means any
public, anywhere.)
The label must be truthful. It must be
easy to read and understand, says FDA,
without a flashlight and magnifying glass.
It must not be misleading in any particu
lar. Imitations must be prominently labell
ed. Net contents must be stated — liquids
in terms of liquid measure; solids or a mix
ture of solids and liquids in terms of weight.
Contents must fill the package. The label
must show the name and place of business
of the manufacturer, packer or distributor.
Additionally, FDA establishes standards
for many foods, specifying basic ingte
dients and optional additives and w’ith spe
cial regulations for vitamin claims.
‘By labelling their products in compli
nce with these laws,” says the FDA book
let, “manufacturers are furnishing consu
mers with the information they need to be
intelligent purchasers and to protect the
health of their families.”
In recommendations to the President's
permanent Advisory Commission on Nar
cotics and Drug Abuse, the American Med
ical Association and the National Academy
of Sciences urge that medical considerations
take precedence over punative measures in
treatments of addicts.
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School Lunch Program
Serves Entire Nation
“School Lunch Serves the Nation —
Through Food for Learning.” That's the
theme of this year's National School Lunch
Week proclaimed by the President of the
United States for observance during October
13-19.
The National School Lunch Program,
administered nationally by the Agricultur
al Marketing Service of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, is one of the world s
most expensive plans of applied nutrition.
The program teaches children to develop
sound food habits, eat a wider variety of
foods, and practice good table manners.
Children get a real pleasure from eating
their noon hour meals provided under the
national lunch program. The lunch operation
also helps to make a wholesome, appetiz
ing lunch available to the nation’s school
children every school day.
The National School Lunch Program is
indeed food for thought. It is producing
strong, well fed youth, more income for
the farmer, a huge market for food trades,
jobs for lunchroom personnel, employment
for related industries, a constructive outlet
for abundant commodities, and a healthier,
wealthier nation.
One state superintendent of education
aptly stated the worth of the National
School Lunch Program: “As an uninvited
guest at the education banquet, school food
service has successfully run the gamut of
neglect, of scorn, of fear, of anger, and has
now entered the approved portals which
entitle it to a chair at the educational
board.”
We Are Grateful to Our
Sharpshooting Forefathers
Englishmen were vastly amused in the
fall of 1775 by a letter in a London news
paper from a colonist warning British of
ficers to make their wills before coming
over to the New World. “This province,”
boasted the apparently demented Ameri
can, “has raised 1,000 riflemen, the worst of
whom will put a ball into a man’s head at
a distance of 150 to 200 yards.”
Within five years, we are reminded by
Lowell E. Krieg, vice president of the Win
chester-Western Division of Olin Mathi
eson, crude and cumbersome weapons in
the hands of backwoods soldiers had blast
ed the well-disciplined British armies out
of the thirteen colonies. In one foray, he
noted, 500 Tennessee mountaineers killed
400 British, captured 4.000 more and a New
York volunteer picked off one of the King’s
officers at 300 yards. “The British regulars,”
he said, “had learned to their dismay that
the crack of American muskets was the
crack of doom.”
“Yet, by mid-twentieth-century this
proud tradition had faded into a misty mem
ory. Even an Army training manual had
to admit that Washington’s soldiers did
better with muskets than those of World
War II and Korea were able to do with
modern arms. It was time to face up to
the fact that an industrial society does not
— without vigorous assistance — produce
the sharpshooters of pioneer days."
As a result, Army marksmanship train
ing has been overhauled and intensified
and attention and assistance given to civi
lian programs, an interest dating back to
the 1870’s when former Civil War offi
cers organized the National Rifle Associa
tion, which, today, has more than half a
million members.
“By 1956,” Mr. Krieg tells us, “the Army
was providing rifles, ammunition, targets
and other equipment to 3.200 clubs and
schools, and manufacturers of arms and
ammunition were pitching in to help Amer
icans regain the lost art of their forefathers.
Winchester began supplying target rifles
of both 30 and 22 caliber, skeet and trap
guns, along with Western ammunition. The
company also launched a special shooting
program for women, provided free train
ing films and pamphlets, and takes especial
pride today in a whole new generation of
Annie Oakleys.”
The world may never see another Bunk
er Hill. But, in all too many places around
the globe, men stand-to at this very hour
with rifles at the ready. We should there
for take comfort in the Army’s emphasis on
markmanship, in our more than 3,000 pri
vate gun clubs and the 25 million Ameri
cans who own sporting arms, and know how
to use them. And we should be especially
grateful to our sharpshooting forebears of
1789 for the Bill of Rights that safeguards,
in 1963, our right to bear arms.
The latest FBI report shows that crime
in this countrys set a new’ record last year,
and is inc’" ng four times as rapidly as
the population.
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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' mvqml OCT. 13-9
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Christian Purity
Bible Material: Matthew 6:
25-33; I Corinthians 5-7.
Devotional Reading: I Thes
salonians 4:1-12; Memory
Selection: Do you not know
that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit within you,
which you have from God? . . .
So glorify God in your body. I
Corinthians 6:19-20.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Too Valuable to Waste.
Young People-Adult Topic;
Christians, Be Pure!
Purity, according to the dic
tionary definition, consists of
freedom from alloy, stain, or
taint. That is pure which is free
from moral defilement or guilt.
Purity is also “freedom from
any sinister or improper mo
tives or views.”
The problem of purity is im
portant in the living of a
Christian life. Compromise of
moral principle is not permit
ted at all in Christian living.
This firm rule must especially
be applied without deviation in
the matter of cleanness of life
and thought.
Every reader of the New
Testament is struck by the es
sentially inward character of
Christian morality. Jesus de
clared that it was not just
enough to abstain from doing
evil. In order really to be pleas
ing in God’s sight one must not
covet evil. Jesus even went so
far as to maintain that the lust
ful look had about it all the
iniquity of the lustful act.
Jesus insisted that goodness
consists primarily in goodness
of heart. Good acts must spring
from good desires and purposes.
The moral life of the Roman
Empire had sunk to horrifying
depths at the time Paul wrote
his epistle to the Corinthians.
We regard modern morals as
far from satisfactory, but many
of the worst conditions today
were, two thousand years ago,
accepted as normal. Even the
great philosophers and leaders
in the Roman life of that day
accepted with a shrug of the
shoulders conditions of moral
depravity that would call forth
universal denunciation today.
In all the Roman world there
was no such cesspool of vice as
the city of Corinth. Even the
gay and dissolute worldlings of
the city of Rome itself raised
their eyebrows and made wry
faces over the moral conditions
existing in Corinth. A great
temple to Aphrodite housing
hundreds of public prostitutes
crowned the hill above the city.
It is amazing and thrilling to
realize that into this “impos
sible” situation Christian lead
ers moved with confidence and
established a church.
Naturally it was a church
with many problems. Paul
loved the Corinthian Church,
but the independence and re
bellion of the people, the strife
among the members, their in
clination to sink back into old
ways of living, kept him in
constant anxiety. Some of the
members of this Christian
Church became intoxicated
with too much communion
wine. The rich drew off by
themselves, gathered with
people of their own social sta
tion, and ignored the humbler :
members of the church.
Amazing as it seems to us I
today, some of these Corinthian
Christians believed that since
they had been made free by.
Christ they were perfectly free
to do whatever they wanted to
do. Since Christ had made them '
free, they believed that they
were free of the moral law
I Some even seriously argued,
that they might continue a life
: of what we call today sexual
immorality without blame.
Paul denounced this conten
tion declaring that the unright
■ eous could not inherit the king
! dom of God. To be sure, they
, had been made free in Christ,
. but what 'they had been freed
! of was the bondage of sin. They
were no longer servants of the
: law as such but the moral law
they must obey because strict
morality—including purity of
life—was alone consistent with
allegiance to a fellowship with
: Jesus Christ.
Some of the Corinthian
■ Christians had been gross sin
ners in former days. But they
had been washed (by baptism).
They had been justified by
faith in Jesus Christ. They
were constantly being sancti
fied (or morally improved) by
: the Spirit of God.
In answer to those who
. claimed that their Christian
■ faith allowed them to do what
i ever they wanted to do, Paul
: replied that while all things
were lawful to him, not all
things were expedient. By this
he did not mean that adultery
! and fornication would ever be
■ lawful, but that sex under
. restraint of marriage would be
; lawful for him, although by
personal choice he preferred to
, remain unmarried.
। The satisfaction of one’s ap
■ petite for food was also legiti
। mate, but Paul declared that
he would not be brought under
, the power of any appetite, even
; legitimate appetites. Above all,
i he declared, “the body is not
for fornication but for the Lord;
i and the Lord for the body.”
: What is Christian righteous
: ness? Anything consistent with
. the spirit and purpose of Jesus
> Christ. Anything inconsistent
with that spirit and purpose is
■ sin.
Cheese, Potatoes
Tops for Fall Fare
Cheese and potatoes —two
mealtime favorites — will be
plentiful this month in the South
east, according to the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture.
The 1963 fall potato crop is es
timated at 190.3 million hundred
weight, nearly 7 percent more
than the five-year average. Ac
cording to USDA crop forecasts,
fall potato production in the eas
tern states is expected to reach
65.2 million hundredweight.
USDA says cheese production
continues high. In August, produc
tion totaled 139.8 million pounds,
or 15 percent more than the five
year average for that month. Man
ufacti. of American cheese dur
ing Au b ast, at 99.7 million pounds,
was the highest on record for the
month.
With the large supplies expected,
USDA's Agricultural Marketing
Service has both cheese and po- [
tatoes on its October list of plen
; tiful foods for the Southeast.
For fall menus, USDA suggests
the family’s favorite cheddar I
cheese sauce poured over hot po-'
tatoes. The same sauce may be
used to complement steaming hot
vegetables such as broccoli, cau
liflower, asparagus, green peas,
i and snap beans.
To prepare this sure-to-please
dish, make a basic cheddar sauce
and spark it with minced pimen
to. Place the vegetable in a greas
ed casserole and pour cheese
। sauce over it. Sprinkle with
crumbled cooked bacon and but
tered bread crumbs. Bake 30
minutes at 350 degrees, or until
■ brown, and serve. j
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures and Features)
Letters To
The Editor
Letters to the Editor are
welcomed by The Covington
News and will be printed if
they are signed by the
writer’s full name (not initial
ed) and address. Your phone
number should also be listed
in case the NEWS needs to
confirm any letter received.
We welcome your opinion
and want it to be expressed,
hut your name must also be
printed so that our readers
may know that the content
is the opinion of the writer
and not necessarily that of
the NEWS.
• * * *
September 18, 1963
Mrs. Mabel S. Dennis, Editor
THE COVINGTON NEWS
122 Pace Street
Covington, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
Did you know that much of
the syrup sold as sorghum
syrup in Georgia today is not
pure sorghum syrup? This con
stitutes a fraud on the average
Georgia housewife who is not
getting what she thinks she is
getting when she buys sorghum
syrup.
Needless to say, we folks in
the Georgia Department of Ag
riculture think that when a
housewife buys a bottle labeled
sorghum syrup it should be
100% pure sorghum syrup just
like granddad used to make and
use on the farm.
With this note of explanation,
I think the attached news re
lease is self-explanatory; and
we would appreciate ary use
you can make of it to help cor
rect this deplorable situation.
Thanks for this and past,
favors.
Yours truly,
Jack Gilchrist, Director
Special Services
Mansfield, Ga.
Oct. 7, 1963
The Editor,
The Covington News,
Covington, Ga.
The Explorer Scouts of the New
ton - Rockdale District are most
grateful for the very good cover
age you have always given their
activities. More recently these in
clude: the Beauty Contest and
Golf Tournament at Porterdale,
Regatta 500 at Bert Adams Camp,
the Beauty Entrance in the WSB
Parade in Atlanta and Scoutac
ular at Chastain Park. Members
of your staff have always co
operated when asked to print ar
ticles or pictures about our ac
tivities.
Yours truly,
Jim Benton,
District Chairman
Newton - Rockdale
District
In business as in football, the
individual player must co
operate with the other mem
bers of the team. —Martin
Vanbee.
statement required by the
ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS
AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MAR.
I ?! 1 . 93 3’ JtJLY 2, 1046 (Title 39,
United States Code. Section 233)
SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MA
NAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION OF
The Covington NEWS published
weekly at Covington, Georgia for Oct.
1> 1963.
6. The names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managing editor, and
business managers are:
Publisher, Mabel S. Dennie, Coving,
ton, Ga.; Editor, Mabel S. Dennis,
Covington, Ga.; Managing Editor, Leo
S. Mallard, Covington, Ga.
7. The owner is: (If owned by a
corporation, its name and address
must be stated and also immediately
thereunder the names and addresses
of stockholders owning or holding 1
percent or more of total amount of
stock. If not owned by a corpora
tion, the names and addresses of the
individual owners must be given. If
owned by a partnership or other un
incorporated firm, its name and ad
dress, as well as that of each indivi
dual member must be given.)
The Covington News, R. O. Arnold,
E. L. Ficquett, E. B. Rogers, R. R.
Fowler Jr., N. S. Turner, E. W. Fow
ler Estate, J. W. Hartsook Estate, S.
A. Ginn, Estate of S. L. Waites, Mrs.
Belmont Dennis and Estate of A. Bel
mont Dennis, all of Covington, Ga.
8. The known bondholders, mort
gagees and other security holders
owning or holding 1 pct. or more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages or
other securities are: f|f there are
none, so state.) None.
9. Paragraphs 7 and 8 include: In
cases where the stockholder or secu
rity holder appears upon the books
of the company as trustee or in any
other fiduciary relation, the name of
the person or corporation for
whom such trustee is acting; also the
statements in the two paragraphs
show the affiant’s full knowledge and
belief as to the circumstances and
conditions under which stockholders
and security holders who do not ap
pear upon the books of the company
as trustees, hold stock and securities
• n a capacity other than that of a
bonafide owner.
Average No. Single
Copies Each Issue
Issue During Nearest
Preceding 12 to Filing
Months. Date.
10.
A—Total No.
Conies Printed
(Press Run) 4,000 3.80 C
B—Paid Circulation
I—To Term
Subscribers
by Mail 3,195 3,142
2 —Sales Through
Agents. News
Vendor or
Otherwise 300 300
(Cash)
C—Free
Distribution 150 150
D —Total No.
Copies
Distributed 3,645 3,582
I certify that the statements made
by me above are correct and co Jete.
Arthur Hende son Sr.,
Secy, and Trees.
The National Outlook
By George Hagedorn
The Objectives of Tax
Reduction
The House of Representa
tives has passed a tax reduc
tion bill. It now goes to the
Senate where it should be
subject to a searching reex
amination. Let us hope that
the reexamination will start
from a basic analysis of the
objectives which the tax cut
is expected to serve.
It might seem that the fact
of a tax cut is more impor
tant than whatever aims may
be in the minds of the legis
lators who pass it. But their
conception of what it is they
are trying to accomplish will
certainly affect the kind of
tax cut we eventually get. It
can also influence the subse
quent climate for government
spending.
One view is that the objec
tive of the tax cut should be
to stimulate economic activity
by raising the level of total
demand. If this is accepted, it
seems to follow that the very
puropse of the tax cut would
be defeated if there were cor
responding economy on the
government spending side. In
a recent speech, Dr. John P.
Lewis, of the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers,
said: “. . . the needed de
mand-boosting job cannot be
done by matching tax cuts
and expenditure cuts.”
Clearly, if the purpose of
tax reform is conceived in
these terms, a climate will
have been created which en
courages, rather than re
presses, increased spending
and bigger deficits.
The “demand-boosting” ap
proach, however, ignores the
fact that levels of economic
activity are determined not by
demand alone but by the in
terplay of many complex
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THE PROPOSED income tax
cut legislation, which has been
given high priority by the Ad
ministration, is now under care
ful consideration by the Senate
Finance Committee of which I
am a member.
The tax bill, H. R. 8363, which
the House of
Rep r esent a
tives passed by
a vote of 271
to 155, was de
scribed by the
President as
the most im
portant do- K
mastic legisla-9
♦ zxF iLii c. cncei/-.
tion of this session of Congress.
Providing for a reduction in
individual and corporate income
taxes, the new tax law if enact
ed would take effect in two an
nual steps beginning January 1.
By 1965, it is estimated that the
average family would have its
income taxes reduced by be
tween SIOO and S2OO a year.
Revenue of the federal gov
ernment would be cut by sorne
sll billion a year.
This is indeed a complicated
and complex matter which will
require much testimony by the
nations leading economic ex
perts and considerable study by
the Finance Committee.
» . »
A REDUCTION in our bur
densome income taxes would of
course be greatly beneficial to
the individual taxpayer, fami
lies, and businesses. Present tax
ation has reached confiscatory
proportions with respect to
wage earners and in effect makes t
the government a senior part-
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forces in the marketplace. A
sounder conception of the aim.
of tax revision is that it
should remove the tax im
pediments to efficient perform
ance and long-term growth
of the private economy. This
would involve both mitigating
the incentive-depressing rise
in the graduated rates, and
freeing funds previously ab
sorbed by the government for
investment in private busi
ness.
When the objective of tax
reform is understood from
this point of view there is
nothing inconsistent in advo
cating simultaneous reduction
of government expenditures
On the contrary, tax cuts and
control of government spend
ing serve the same purpose of
releasing the growth forces
inherent in the private econ
omy.
Most of our leading states
men have declared themselves
in favor of the strictest pos
sible control of federal spend
ing. Thus, by implication at
least, they have disassociated
themselves from the demand
boosting theory in its pure
form.
This is encouraging. How
ever, the House bill would
have been better if it had
dealt more adequately with
one of the chief obstacles to
business growth — the steep
rise in rates through the mid
dle brackets of income. Also,
the meagerness of the cut in
the corporate rate does not do
the job' that is needed in re
leasing funds for business in
vestment.
NEW YORK — Oil Facts re
ports that the cost of transporting
a gallon of oil from Texas to New
York is about half the cost of
mailing a post card.
c ner in every big corporation.
1 In addition to aiding the tax
- payers, it is anticipated that th®
- new tax law will stimulate tha
s American economy by making
I more jobs available and increas
ing capital spending and retail
i trade. This of course would alle
viate many of our current na
tional fiscal problems.
The aims of this bill are ad
mirable, and it is to be hoped
that they will be achieved. How
ever, at the same time we must
not lose sight of the current
state of fiscal affairs in th®
country and continue to strive to
balance the budget and ease our
. deficit problems.
* * *
» THE CONGRESS, in attempt
ing to boost the nation’s econ
omy and increase employment,
must also direct its attention t®
the deficits which are piling up
year after year, the more than
S3OO billion national debt and
the plight of the dollar.
Sooner or later, we are going
to have to hold the line and stop
spending billions more than th®
gox ernment collects in revenue.
Ihis is not a sound fiscal poliejr
and it does not make for sound
government.
It is highly desirable that
American citizens be given »
much deserved reduction in their
income taxes, but it also is th®
lesponsihility of the Congress t®
return the country to fiscal re
sponsibility by demanding a re
duction in expenditures.