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By the Office Boy
HERE I am! Out of bed with
eyes half closed, the day before
Christmas, at six o’clock try
ing to get this column ready to
get in the paper which goes to
press tonight .... Christ
mas Eve . . is it? We said
Merry Christmas last
week . . . and there will not be
any delivery on. Christmas Day
so you will not . . or will
you get this after Christmas?
You can’t get a fellow at the
typewriter this early (Oh yes,
we had our breakfast) . . . and
have him thinking right . . . in [
fact, you know if I ever stop
ped to think I would not write I
this column any way.
We are well now, but the ice
keeps us shut in . . . ours is a
bad street, straight down hill
from both ends of the street
and with ice on it . . . brother
it’s slick! But we have the
nicest little apartment with
loving friends and neighbors
in most all of them ... so you
do not feel as all alone as you
would in a house by yourself.
It is beautifully located not too
far from town, the churches
etc . . . and what a beautiful;
sight the ice was ... we just
had everything! the front view
was a dream . . . (with the
imagination I have). We just
stood at the windows until we
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Supermarkets to
Be Open Today
Covington’s three supermarkets
— Big Apple, Colonial and Kro
ger — will be open today (Thurs
day, Dec. 26) after observing the
Christmas holiday yesterday
(Wednesday).
Regular store hours of the three
supermarkets will be kept during
the rest of the week.
Harwell Returns
From Hospital
Charles Harwell, of J. C. j
Harwell and Son Funeral Di
rectors, was permitted to re
turn home Monday from
Emory University Hospital,
where he spent the past week
as a patient.
Mr. Harwell's condition is
reported as much improved;
and a host of friends are wish
ing him a rapid and pleasant
convalescence.
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ICY-LADEN TREES and frozen streets greeted Covingtonians Monday morning when
they awoke to find a freezing rain had given the appearance of light snow. This scene
shows Church Street with the home of Dr. J. R. Sams in the distance. Temperatures here
dropped to the low twenties on Monday and Tuesday.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Deadlines For General News,
Society and Sports
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1964
Sports News 5:00 p. m. Tuesday
General News - — 12:00 noon Tuesday
News with Advertising 12:00 noon Tuesday
Society News
Weddings —— 12:00 noon Tuesday
General Society News 5:00 p. m. Tuesday
News Correspondents must have news in Post Office
no later than Monday afternoon at 5:00 p. m.
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The Georgi Established 1865—The Covington Star, Established 1874—The Enterprise, Established 1902, and The Citizen-Observer, Established 1953
VOLUME 98
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INACTION SUIT IS FILED AGAINST CITY
K. vanis Officers To Be Installed On Friday
Hay Is President; Hutchins,
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Tuck Club Vice-Presidents
The 1964 slate of Covington Kiwanis Club officers will
be installed at the regular weekly meeting Friday (tomorrow)
at Legion Home at 1 o’clock Due to the Christmas holidays
Wednesday and Thursday for most Covington businessmen,
the meeting will be held this week on Friday.
New president of the club is
Sam M. Hay, Clerk of Superior
Court of Newton County and a
Kiwanian for the past quarter
century. He has been active
in the civic club’s work for
Student Night at
Georgia Baptist
Churches Sunday
ATLANTA — During the
Christmas season, some 27,000
members of Georgia Baptist
churches, who are students in
Georgia colleges and universi
ties, will be featured, many as
honored guests, as Baptist
churches observe ‘‘Student
Night At Christmas.”
With services scheduled Sun
day evening, Dec. 29, in many
churches, the student will be
featured in programs emphasiz
ing the spiritual life of college
students, and the role of the
, students' home church in their
, spiritual development. Using
varied formats, programs will
include special music by stu
dent groups, personal testimon
ies, and, in many churches, stu
dents will bring a message at
the evening service.
The Rev. Aubrey L. Hawkins,
Atlanta, Secretary of the De
partment of Student Work for
the Georgia Baptist Conven
tion, is directing the student
night emphasis for Georgia.
(The (Cmmujtmi
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many year and has held num
erous offices. He will succeed
Frank Meadors at the helm of
the organization.
The newly-installed Lieu- ;
tenant-Governor of the 12th
Division Charles L. Crawley,'
Jr. will have charge of the in- ‘
stallation ceremony.
Other officers to be inducted
Friday include: James Hutch
ins and Goodwin Tuck, vice-,
presidents; Ben Banks, secre
tary; Moody Summers, trea
surer; and board of directors:
Greeley Ellis, Jordan Callaway,
Mel Waggoner, Edgar Wood,
W. B. Thompson, George
Hutchinson, Laverne Cowan
and Frank Meadors.
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Newton County Representa- 1
tive Donald Ballard was the
। guest speaker at the Covington |
Kiwanis Club meeting Thurs- I
day. Mr. Ballard's speech was |
| mainly along the lines of edu- .
i cation in Georgia and its fut- I
' ure, and taxes. These two vital
I subjects will take up most of
the upcoming Georgia General
! Assembly session time in Jan
uary, Rep. Ballard stated.
Visitors at the meeting
Thursday included: David
Hatch of Atlanta; Reuben
Whisnante and Jimmy Wiley,l
Key Club members of NCHS;
and John H. Bennett of At - I
lanta, who accompanied Bob'
Travis on his recent trip to the I
Kitty Hawk Youth Seminar in <
North Carolina.
Newton Democratic
Exec. Committee
To Meet Jan. 11
A meeting of the Newton
County Democratic Executive
Committee will be held on
Saturday, January 11, 1964 at
the Covington City Hall court
room, according to Secretary-
Treasurer W. J. Dingus, Jr. '
The purpose of the meeting
is to set fees for candidates for I
county offices, state represen
tative, and state senate. Also
the time to qualify for the va
rious races and date of the
county's Democratic Primary.
The meeting will start at 1 i
. P.M., Mr. Dingus stated.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1963
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Newborn Rites
Held Tuesday
For Mac Gay, Jr.
C. M. (Mac) Gay Jr., promi
nent citizen of Newborn and New
ton County, died in a private hos
i pital Sunday evening, December
22, from injuries sustained while
working with livestock at his home
in Newborn on Sunday morning.
A native of Newborn, he was the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. ■
Charles Mclntyre Gay.
i Mr. Gay was 59 years old at I
the time of his death. A faithful .
member of the Newborn Methodist
Church he was on the Official
. Board of the Church, a Mason, Elk
and member of the State Civil
Engineering Association. An alum
nus of Georgia Tech, he had been
1 employed for the past 20 years
with the Georgia State Highway
Department as Civil Engineer with
the Right-of-Way Department. He
was married in 1946 to the for
mer Ruth Odum of Covington.
Funeral services were held !
Tuesday afternoon, December 24,
at 2 p. m. at Newborn Methodist I
Church with Rev. Jimmy Thur
man, pastor of the church, officiat
ing. Interment was in Newborn
Cemetery with J. C. Harwell and
i Son Funeral Home in charge of
■ arrangements. Serving as pall-
I bearers were Guy Jones, Luther
Carson, Bill Zeigler, Gray Hinton,
Edgar Phillips, Sam Walton. Ha--
I rold Brown and Joe Davis.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
C. M. Gay, one son. C. M. Gay
111, two sisters, Mrs. Doyle Smith,
Mrs. T. C. Berry, all of Newborn j
■ and several nieces and nephews. |
The NEWS joins the many i
: family in extending sympathy j
। to the family.
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Frank Williams
Died Suddenly
Sunday, Dec. Il
Frank H. Williams of 808 j
Floyd Street. Covington, died
suddenly on Sunday, December
22, at the age of 63. He was
born in Pelham but had made i
Covington his home for the I
past 18 years. A member of
the Church of the Good Shep- -
herd, he had served as Vestery
man at the local Episcopal
Church. He was a coin collec
tor and a member of the local
Coin Club and self-employed
as a Manufacturing Agent.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon, December
24, at the Church of the Good
Shepherd with Rev. Gordon
H. Mann, Rector of the Church,
officiating.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mildred M. Williams, Coving
ton; one son, Paul F. Williams,
Atlanta; tw’o sisters, Mrs. Al
fred Green, Daytona Beach. |
Florida and Mrs. T. T. Sloan.
Moultrie.
Interment was in Lawnwood 1
Memorial Park with Caldwell :
and Cowan Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements. Serv- 1
ing as pallbearers were T. S.'
Perry, E. C. Bramblett, B. M
Smith, all of Atlanta; E. E
Callaway, Covington; Felton
'Jenkins, Robert Ridgeway,
Madison; with honorary pall- i
bearers being Dick Rutkoski,'
Greensboro. North Carolina;'
Gus Patterson, Daytona Beach, '
Florida; Sam Flanagan, Dallas, [
Texas and Jordan Callaway, -
Covington.
In lieu of flowers, contribu
tions were made to Memorial
Fund, Church of The Good 1
Shepherd.
The NEWS extends sympathy ।
to the family.
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Covington News
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Bibb's Christinas Tree Held Thursday
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BIBB'S BIG CHRISTMAS TREE brought joy to hundreds
of girls and boys Thursday at the Porterdale gymnasium.
Shown above are two youngsters with B. B. Snow, Vice-
President of Bibb Manufacturing Company. Lynnia Blitch
and John Walden are holding their Christmas box of candy,
fruit and nuts which were gaily wrapped. This marked the
39th year that Mr. Snow had attended the Bibb Christmas
Tree.
— And a Healthy New Year
Oh, yes — those Resolutions!
Some people don't make iem—-
but lots of others do. Curious
thing is that, make them or
not, everybody seems ready to
talk about them.
So let’s talk about them.
Here are some basic ingredients
of the well-rounded New Year
Resolutions package:
HOME SAFETY—Of course
you’ll vow to be careful about i
polished floors, random razor [
blades, rickety stepladders, ex- '
posed wiring. Home accidents I
Empty Stocking Boxes Are Prepared for Needy Families of the County
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BOXES OF FOOD, TOYS and Clothing are shown in the
foreground of this picture at the Teen Can Sunday as the
Rotary Club members prepared to distribute them to the
needy families of the county. The local Empty Stocking
Drive meant that a Merry Christmas would be in store
are a leading cause of injury
and death.
DRUG SAFETY — Where
there are children in the house,
you’ll have the medicine cabi
net high beyond reach, prefer
ably locked. For adult protec
tion, all drugs, medicines, clean
। ing fluids, exterminants will
) be kept plainly labeled and the
j label always consulted before
i use.
ROAD SAFETY—No driving
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Revaluation Question To Be
Heard At January Court
A suit for an injunction against the City of Covington,
Mayor and Council, and others has been filed with the New
ton County Superior Court and the case will be heard on
I January 17, 1964. The suit involves the legality of a con-
I tract negotiated between Covington City officials and Hun-
I nicutt and Associates Inc. of St. Petersburg, Fla. for a tax
I revaluation program in Covington.
I The tax revaluation firm was i
I engaged in October 1963 to
I make a “tax appraisal of all
I property both real and person-
I al within the city to be used
I for taxable purposes, at a con- ;
I tract price of $38,500.”
S Plaintiffs in the petition are
? W. T. Greer, Sr. and C. E.
l Trainer. They are represented
I by Ballard and Thigpen, At
’ torneys, of Covington.
>: Named as defendants in the
■ petition are Mayor Nat S.
| Turner; councilmen Buddy
I Baker, Guy V. Evans, Fred J.
I Kitchens, A. Otis Spillers, M.
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I Thomas Range
Is Victim Auto
Wreck Sunday
• Funeral services for Thomas
g Myron Range, 51, of Porter
dale, were held Tuesday after
noon at the Julia A. Porter Me
' morial Methodist Church at
Porterdale. Rev. Carl Standard ,
’ was the officiating minister.
! Mr. Range was killed in an :
> automobile wreck near Con
yers Sunday. His late wife
- Frances was the Almon corre
spondent for The Covington ‘
NEWS for many years prior to I
her death.
Mr. Range is survived by
daughters, Mrs. Bobby G. ;
- White, Conyers; Miss Diane j
j Range, Atlanta; son, Ronnie |
Range, Atlanta; sisters, Mrs.
Louise Holliday, Waycross; I
Miss Mary Range, Loganville:
brothers, Bill Range, Logan
ville: Jim Range, Douglasville;)
and three grandchildren.
Interment was in Lawnwood
Cemetery. Covington.
The NEWS extends deepest
sympathy to members of the,
family.
for many families of the couniy. Left to right are: Dr
James Purcell, Money Pratt, John Hackney, Alvin Rane
Bill Hoffman, J. W. (Whit) Richardson, holding one of ths
dolls; Mack Johnson and Bud Dennison. Hugh Harris, over
all chairman, was not present for the picture.
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OBITUARIES ... - 2
SOCIETY *
EDITORIAL -10
SPORTS
j LEGALS 14
CLASSIFIED — 15
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H. Waggoner, Don J. Wood;
Greeley Ellis, Attorney for the
City of Covington; Harry P.
Cowan, Tax Receiver and Col
lector; W. J. Dingus, Jr., L. L.
Dick and C. P. Kirkland, City
Board of Tax Assessors; and
Hunnicutt and Associates, Inc.,
of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The petition lists 22 indivi
dual facts on why the city
should not follow through with
the contract with the Hunni
cutt firm. The contract with
j the firm is quoted as “that on
its face said contract is null,
, void and of no legal effect
j whatever in that in the final
paragraph thereof it appears
that the making of the contract
has been “duly authorized by
proper resolution of the City
; Commission of Covington,
i Georgia,” whereas your pett
■ tioners show that there is no
j City Commission of Covingtoh,
; Georgia, in existence at this
lirue. nor was^there such com
mission in existence at the
time of the resolution referred
to, nor at the time of the mak
' ing of the contract, nor at any
other time herein mentioned.”
The petition also quoted
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Classified Ads
Effective January 1, 1964.
deadline for classified ad
vertising will be 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday. Cost of classi
fied advertising will be 95c
per column inch. Deadline
for display classified adver
tising will be 5:00 p.m. Tues
day. Cost of classified dis
p 1a y advertising will be
SI.OO per column inch. Clas
fied display advertising that
runs weekly for a period of
at least six months will cost
85c per column inch.
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