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Those who missed the Rotary
Club’s Saturday evening Hoot
enanny at Newton High Audi
torium, were the losers! Maybe
we are push-overs for home
town talent, but there is some
thing very special about a per
formance by “friends and
neighbors”.
We glow with their triumphs
and lose our breath with every
sour musical note or forgotten
line. For these are our own.
Discounting natural, local pride,
though, there was a lot of real
talent in the Hootenanny pre
sentation.
Congratulations to Rotary
and those who participated as
contestants!
Good News! Plans are being
initiated for another Newton
County Community Theater
production! The play has not
yet been chosen, but from past
performances, we feel no hesit
ancy in highly recommending
it. Anything this group, under
the capable direction of Eddie
Najjar, presents is entertain
ment par excellence.
Back on our NEA Convention
trip, where last week we walk
ed in forests centuries old, we
spent Friday at Seattle’s Olym
pic Hotel, enjoying a “bus
man’s holiday”. Georgia's own
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Local Boy Scout
Fund Campaign
Breakfast, Tues.
The Newton-Rockdale Dis
trict Boy Scout Fund Drive
will be actively launched at a
Kickoff Breakfast Tuesday
morning, October 22 at Hender
son’s Restaurant at 7 o’clock
on the Covington - Jackson
highway.
No sooner will the BSA of
ficials present finish their
morning meal than the first
contribution will be made to
the financial campaign by
Clarence Henderson, owner
and operator of the restaurant.
He will donate all the money
taken in at the breakfast to
the Newton-Rockdale drive.
John Riley Thompson is
overall chairman of the BSA
drive in the two counties and
he states that plans will be
discussed at the breakfast for
the 10-day campaign to col
lect finances.
Palmer-Stone P-TA
Meets on Monday
The Palmer-Stone P. T. A.
will meet on Monday evening,
October 21st at 7:30 in the
Palmer-Stone School cafetori
um.
Mrs. Pierce Cline will have
charge of the program which
is to be on “Mental Health”. A
very interesting film is plan
ned as part of the program.
Larry Roberts Receives DCT Trophy
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LARRY ROBERTS (right). State President of the Georgia
Federation of Diversified Cooperative Training (DCT) Clubs,
is shown receiving a trophy from Jack P. Nix, State Director
of the Vocational Educational Department, at the South
eastern Fair in Atlanta recently in recognition of outstanding
achievement of DCT Clubs in Georgia. Larry is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Roberts of Route 4. Covington, and is a
senior at Newton County High School.
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VOLUME 98
HIGH HOMECOMING FRIDAY 7:30
Theater Group To Make Plans Wednesday
Production Planned
Benefit
Blue Rambler Band
For The
The Newton Community Theater will meet on Wednes
day, October 23, at 8 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Pat Campbell,
205 Davis Street. Mrs. Campbell, president of the Theater
Group, urges all members to be present, and states that
newcomers and any other persons interested in the theater
in any way are invited to attend
this meeting.
Members of the Band Boosters
Club are also urged to be pre
sent, as plans will be formulated
for the forthcoming joint produc-1
tion of the Newton Community |
Theater and the Band Boosters’ j
Club for the benefit of the Newton
High Blue Rambler Band.
The Newton Community Thea
ter has had a glorious history sin-1
ce its organization in the fall of
1954, and the list of its many high
ly successful plays includes “Qual
ity Street”, “The Remarkable Mr.
Pennypacker”, Goo db y My
Fancy”, and numerous others.
For the past three seasons the
Theater Group and the Band
Boosters’ Club have combined
their efforts for the support of the
splendid Newton High Blue Ram
bler Band, and each production
has been most successful.
Newborn HD
Club Organized
Monday evening, October 14th,
Mrs. Sara Groves, Newton Coun
ty Home Demonstration Agent,
met with a group of ladies in the
Newborn community for the pur
pose of organizing a Home Dem
onstration Club. This meeting was
held at the Community House with
sixteen members enrolling. Offi
cers were elected and this newly
formed club will meet every
month on Tuesday evenings after
the third Sunday, at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. James W. Thurman, Jr.,
will serve as president, Mrs. Bar
ron Davis, Ist vice-president; Mrs.
Herbert Carson, 2nd vice-presi
dent: Mrs. Doyle Smith, 3rd vice
president; Mrs. M. R. Sams, sec
retary; Mrs. Steve Polk, treasur
er; and Mrs. Ralph Adams, 4-H
advisor, make up the list of offi
cers to serve this year.
Refreshments of coffee, lemon
ade and cookies were served after
the business meeting.
Cnittngintt
Rotary Program
Will Spotlight
Atlanta Stadium
Covington Rotary club mem
bers will be given some first-hand
information pertaining to the
building plans for the city-county
stadium in Atlanta when the club
meets Tuesday at the Teen Can
building at 12:30 p. m.
Aubra Sherwood is in charge of
the program and he has been as
sured that a competent speaker
from the architect firm of Heery
and Heery, Inc., Atlanta, will come
to Covington with a model of the
proposed stadium for the program
next Tuesday. Mr. Sherwood said
that cither Mr. George Heery or
Mr. Bill Finch of the architectural
firm will be here for the program.
The Atlanta Stadium committee
is headed by Arthur Montgomery ,
and his group has already start-1
ed the ball rolling for a pro foot-,
ball and pro baseball facility that
will assure the city of a franchise |
in the major leagues of baseball
and in pro football, Mr. Sherwood
stated.
Newton Cancer
Chapter to Meet
The Newton County Unit of the
American Cancer Society will
meet on October 28th. Watch the
Covington News for time and
place of meeting.
All people in Newton County who
are interested in helping with the
Educational Program and the
Crusade to help save lives of our
friends and neighbors, as well as
our own life, and the lives of the
members of our families, will.
please plan to be present. Maybe .
you have not joined this group as
a VOLUNTEER as yet, so this is
a special invitation to all who
read this, and are willing to help ;
Newton County with this great I
program of saving lives, to be pre
sent on October 28th.
Larry Roberts
Receives Trophy
For DCT Work
Jack P. Nix, State Director
of the Vocational Educational
Department, awarded Larry
Roberts, State President of the
Georgia Federation of Diver
sified Cooperative Training
Clubs, a trophy at the South
eastern Fair for his outstand
ing achievement in D. C. T.
State Club work.
Larry had the opportunity
of presenting a speech after
the luncheon sponsored by the
Southeastern Fair Association
on DCT club work and he also
emphasized the objectives of
the program to the school, to
the employer and to the com
munity.
After the program Larry
appeared on TV channel 11
and was congratulated by the
TV staff along with other stu
dent activity leaders of the
State of Georgia.
Larry is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Roberts of Route
4. Covington and is a senior
at Newton County High School.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1963
Miniature Garden Club Flower Show Winners
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Pratt are shown left to right: Mrs. Bert Adams, blue ribbon; Mrs. Thomas L. Crews, blue
ribbon; Mrs. Pratt, hostess; Mrs. Lanier Hardman. Tri-Color award; Mrs. Hugh Harris,
president. Award of Merit, Horticulture Sweepstakes; Mrs. J. C. Harwell, blue ribbon and
Mrs. S. R. Campbell, Jr., blue ribbon.
Jack Chandler, Dixon Hays Named
Farmers Mutual Exchange Directors
Two new members of the
board of directors of Farmers
Mutual Exchange of Covington
were elected Thursday at the
Annual Membership Meeting
at Ficquett School Cafetorium
in Covington. Dixon Hays and
Jack Chandler were elected to
the board to fill the places of
the retiring D. B. Dixon and
Gray Hinton.
Leonard Standard was re
elected president of Farmers
Mutual Exchange, Alton Jolley,
vice-president; and Denver
Elks Lodge to
Have Visit of
Deputy G.E.R.
Covington Lodge 1806, Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks,
will hold regular meeting Thurs
day, October 17, 1963, 7:30 P. M„
preceded by supper at 6:30. This
is a very important meeting, and
attendance is urged.
Official visit will be made by
District Deputy Grand Exalted
Ruler, Byron Williams, of Athens
Lodge. There will be a number
of Candidates initiated into mem
bership of the order.
Boys and Girls
Committee Report
At Kiwanis Club
The Covington Kiwanis Club
boys and girls committee will
give a report at the regular
luncheon meeting of the orga
nization today (Thursday) at
Legion Home at 1 o’clock. C.
D. Ramsey, chairman of the
club’s boys and girls commit
tee will have charge of the
program today.
Last week the Kiwanis mem
bers were given a report on
the 1963 operation of the club's
swimming pool. The program
today will be a continuation
of the Kiwanis education pro
gram series scheduled periodi
cally by the club.
Following the program, if
time permits, a “Sing Along
With George” (Hutchinson)
will be held. This should prove
to be interesting as members
will be asked to participate
under the direction of George
Hutchinson.
Day, secretary and manager.
Other members of the board
who were re-elected: A. C.
Ewing, James Elliott, J. H.
Ellington. R. L. Ellington and
Harold Dobbs.
During the program Thurs
day music was furnished by the
Mt. Zion Trio. Presiding at the
meeting was Leonard Standard.
Mr. Day gave the manager’s
report and A. C. Ewing made
the Nominating Committees’
report.
Report of CPA operations
was given by M. C. Leslie,
District Manager of Atlanta;
and Hugh Steele of Covington,
gave the Cotton States Insur
ance report. Door prizes were
awarded under the direction of
Mr. Leslie.
Mansfield Lions
Barbecue Wed.
Mansfield Lions Club Annual
Barbecue will be held Wednes
day, October 23 from 5 until 3
p. m. at the Community House.
Tickets are $1.50 for adults and
75 cents for children under 12
years of age.
Lions President Ralph Spears
urges the public to attend the
barbecue. The money derived
from the event will be used for
benefit of Lions activities pro
gram.
Local Kiwanis Club
Inducts 3 Members
Kiwanis Club of Covingon
has enrolled three new mem
bers at recent meeting of the
organization. Spence Ramsey,
owner and manager of Peoples
Drug Store; Charles Strikland,
a Covington attarney; and Ted
Waller, Newton-Rockdale Dist
rict Boy Scout Executive are
recent additions to the club.
During last week’s luncheon
meeting of the Kiwanis Club
the Swimming Pool committee
made its annual report of the
pool operation during the sum
mer. The report showed that
the plant is in good physical
condition and sound financial
shape after much repairs had
been made to the bath house
and equipment.
H. O. Welchel and L. G.
Carney gave their reports,
which constituted much of the
program Thursday. Ma ti on
Piper, Swimming Pool commit
tee chairman, also spoke briefly
and treasurer Donald Stephen
son gave his report.
Walker Harris
Announces for
Covington Mayor
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WALKER HARRIS
Qualifying to run for office
in the mayor and council races
in Covington has begun early.
The city election date is De- i
cember 4, 1963.
Walker Harris, local automo
bile dealer, paid his entrance
fee for the mayor’s race on
Tuesday. No other candidates
have announced for the race to
date.
Mayor Nat S. Turner said last
Monday night at the City
Council meeting that he had
not decided whether or not to
run for mayor again and that
“I won’t make up my mind
until I return from my vaca
tion.”
J. E. Loyd entered the race
for councilman on Tuesday to
become the first man to qua
lify. None of the three council
men presently serving have an- ■
nounced yet or made their in
tentions known.
Councilmen M. H. Waggon
er, Otis Spillers, and Fred Kit
chens end their two-year term
on the council this year.
City Clerk Harry P. Cowan ,
said that the deadline for qua
lifying to run in the city elec
tion. will be 12:O0 o’clock noon
on Wednesday November 20.
W. H. Loyd Grows
A Large Pear
W. H. Loyd of Route 3,
Jackson Highway, Covington,
brought a pear to the Coving
ton NEWS office Saturday
which measured 13 1/2 inches
around and weighed 1 lb. 7
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OBITUARIES 4
SOCIETY 9-1 S
EDITORIAL 10
SPORTS 17
RURAL AND URBAN 10
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS 21
LEGALS 22
CLASSIFIED 23
Crowning 01 Queen Tops
The Pre-Game Activities
Newton County High School’s 1963 Homecoming activities
on the gridiron will get underway Friday night at Sharp
Field at 7:30 with pre-game festivities and crowning of the
’63 Homecoming Queen.
Amitie Club of
Oxford Makes a
Gift Io Library
A gift in the amount of
SIOO.OO for the purchase of
books has been made by the
Amitie Club of Oxford to the
Newton County High School
Library. The check was pre
sented at chapel in the high
school auditorium last Friday
by Mrs. Herbert Katz and Mrs.
Marshall Elizer, members of
the Projects Committee of the
Amitie Club, of which Mrs.
Eugene Whatley is president.
Committee member unable to
be present at the chapel pro- ;
gram is Mrs. G. D. Lancaster. I
If it is permissible to buy
books for the library with
NDEA funds, the Amitie Club's
gift will make possible the pur
chase of $400.00 worth of li
brary materials in the areas of
science, mathematics, and mod
ern foreign languages.
One of the major concerns of
American education today is
to provide opportunities for
gifted students to develop the I
lull potential of their talents.
The suggestion most frequent
ly made for accomplishing this
is enrichment through reading.
It is hoped that the Amitie
Club’s gift will point the way
toward sustained public sup
port in providing enrichment
opportunities for the youth of
Newton County by means of
greater resources in the New
ton County High School Li
brary.
Local Masons to
Attend Church Sun.
The Grand Chapter of Geor
gia Royal Arch Masons has re-1
quested that all Georgia Royal
Arch chapters attend local
Church services in a body on
Sunday, October 20th.
Covington Chapter No. 71
will attend services at Firstl
Methodist Church at 7:30 p. m.
and extend an invitation to all i
Masonic bodies to join them.
All Masons are requested to
meet at the church at 7 p. m. [
Aprons will be worn.
"National Forest Products Week”
Set for Georgia October 20-25th
Georgia Governor Carl E.
Sanders has proclaimed the
week < ’ October 20-26 as “Na
tional Forest Products Week”
in Georgia.
Governor Sanders pointed
out that the development and
production of our forests af
ford not only economic devel
opment but recreational and
esthetic opportunities, making
Georgia a better place to live,
work and play for ourselves
and future generations.
Governor Sanders empha
sized the need for all Georgia
citizens to join in the recogni
tion of an industry that em
ploys more than 50,000 per
sons and whose products have
an annual value in excess of
981 million dollars. Georgia’s
forest are a great renewable
natural resource that will con
tinue to grow and be a part
NUMBER 43
I Five candidates are Isted in
the Court of Honor, one of
whom will wear the crown of
! the 1963 Homecoming Queen
I Friday. The NCHS beauties
■ are: Beverly Butler, Pam Car-
I son, Robin Dennison, Scotti
Kirkland and Cindy Steele.
Each of the above princesses
will have two senior escorts,
one of which will be a Ram
football player.
The NCHS Student Council
has issued a special invitation
to all past presidents and past
vice-presidents of the school
A bonfire and pep rally
will be held at the Newton
County High School tonight
(Thursday) at 7:30 on the
grounds near the gym. All
parents and students of
NCHS as well as friends are
invited to attend the rally
prior to the homecoming
football game to be played
on Friday night. Come one
and all to the NCHS rally
tonight, (Thursday), Octo
ber 10.
council to be present for the
game and the Homecoming ac
tivities Friday.
Again the Newton County
Jaycees will sponsor and pro
vide the flowers and jewelry
for the Homecoming Court. The
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Oxford Baptist
Revival Scheduled
October 20 Thru 27
I An eight-day Revival il
scheduled at the Oxford Bap
tist Church, Haygood Avenue
in Oxford, October 20-27 in
clusive.
Preaching at the nightly
' meetings at 7:30 will be the
pastor the Rev. Lavay McCul
; lough, who recently came to
the Oxford church.
The church building is lo
cated between Haygood Ave
nue and North Emory Street,
i near Bonnell Street.
of the future development of
our State, he added.
In recognition of “National
Forest Products Week”, Geor
gia Forestry Commission Di
rector Ray Shirley said th#
Commission will continue to
strive at assuring Georg a
landowners of a sound and ef
ficient forestry program. Shir
ley added that through a pol
icy of service and assistance
woodland owners will be pro
vided the ‘tools’ through which
they can realize the greatest
income from their forest re
sources.
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