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The First Baptist Church had
a most rewarding Revival dur
ing the past week. The Minister
was the Rev. Mr. Arnold Smith,
of the First Baptist Church of
Atlanta, and as you will re
member, was guest columnist
for the Office Boy. We enjoyed
his column, and did not know
until then that he was a gradu
ate of Emory-at-Oxford. He
was, with his wife, a guest on
parents day at Oxford, and for
the luncheon. Rev. Singleton, of
Madison was the Song leader —
and the greatest!
Parents day was a fine day,
a fine program and a fine
luncheon, mingling with friends
from all over the State
and other States. This
is a day we always look for
ward to with much pleasure.
Many fine boys and girls go out
from this institution to make
fine citizens, for the Christian
atmosphere which permeates
this campus reflects in the fut
ure lives of its students.
Since we had a guest col
umnist last week, we were un
able to express our heartfelt
sympathy to the family of Mrs.
William White Aiken, the
former Allie Louise Travis. Al
lie Louise had married and was
living in Lyons when we came
to Covington. She and William
were married the same year my
husband and I were married.
We had known her on her visits
here, and had stopped by when
we passed through Lyons to
see them, and to see the fine
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Elks to Sponsor
Breakfast After
Junior-Senior Prom
Among Interesting events
planned in honor of NCHS
Seniors and Juniors, who are
hosts for the graduating class
at the annual Junior-Senior,
Prom, Friday evening, will be a
Post-Prom Breakfast” at the
Covington Elks Lodge, which
the local Elks’ Club is sponsor
ing.
Exalted Ruler Hugh Kesler
announced Tuesday that many
parents of the two groups will
assist in the breakfast’s pre
paration and serving; and the
event is anticipated as a de
lightful finale for those attend
ing the Prom.
Parents of the Juniors and
Seniors are advised that the
event will be properly chaper
oned; and the Breakfast will be
over, and the Elks’ Club closed
at 2:00 a. m. Those attending
the Junior-Senior Prom will
be given proper identification
for admittance to the Breakfast
at the Elks’ Club.
Young people, parents, school
officials and leaders are grati
fied at the interest of the Elks’
Club in sponsoring this fine
social event for the Prom at
tendants, for which the Elks
should be highly commended.
Newton Hiah FHA Chapter Receives Honor at Convention
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President Jane Coggin and Honor Roll Chairman Nancy Blankenship are examining the
State Honor Roll Certificate which Brenda Hayes (left) and Judy Moseley (right) brought
back from the 19th Annual State Future Homemakers of America meeting held in Atlanta
at the Dinkier Plaza Hotel last week. April 23-25. The chapters which received awards
were recognized in the meeting Friday morning. This is the Bth year that Newton High
FHA has received the award. Certain standards and requirements must be met before
a chaptur can become an Honor Roll Chapter.
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BEbT COVERAGE OF NEWS, PICTURES, AND FEATURES OF ANY WEEKLY IN GEORGIA
The Georgia Enterprise, r *ablished 1865—The Covington Star, Established 1874—The Enterprise, Established 1902, and The Citizen-Observer, Established 1953
VOLUME 99
CITY W REVALUATION SUIT IS DEMURRED
Spc man’s Club To Be Organized In County
A meeting will be .xeld in
future for the purpose of org
Purpose of the meeting is to
combine the interests of hunt
ers, fishermen and other out
door enthusiast for the im
provement of hunting and fish
ing in the county and, through
affiliation with the Georgia
Sportsmen’s Federation, hunt
ing and fishing in the state as
a whole.
The Georgia Sportsmen’s
Federation, is the state affiliate
of the National Wildlife Fed
eration. It’s chief goal is the
improvement of out door re
creation facilities in Georgia
through cooperation with the
Game and Fish Department and
other state and Federal agen
cies.
Tommie Holliman of Thom
aston, president of the state
group, told the Covington News
this week that the Federation is
seeking to organize a sports
man’s club in every county
Week's Parking
Meter Money to
Go to 3 Widows
The City of Covington will
donate a week’s money taken
from the downtown parking
meters to the widows of the
three Gwinnett County Police
men who were slain recently.
The week started yesterday
(Wednesday) and will run
through Tuesday, May 5. Any
one who wishes to make a cash
contribution to the widows’
fund may do so at Covington
City hall.
Newton High Library Club
Receives GALA Project Award
The Newton County High
School Library Club received
the First Prize Project Award
of the Georgia Association of
Library Assistants during the
recent annual convention of the
association at the FFA Camp
on Jackson Lake. The award
was made at a banquet on Sat
urday evening. April 25th. Ap
proximately 150 clubs are
members of GALA (Georgia
Association of Library Assis
tants).
The project which won top
recognition was a Workshop in
Parliamentary Procedure which
Sip
Newton County in the near
;anizing a sportsman’s club.
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where no such club now exists.
The Federation presently in
cludes some 40 to 50 clubs
scattered over the state with a
membership of more than 4,000
persons.
When a club is organized
here one member will serve on
the Federation board of direct
ors and help plan state-wide
programs for the improvement
of hunting, fishing and other
outdoor recreation facilities.
Delegates from the Newton
County group will also help
chart Federation activities
through attendance at the an
nual sportsman’s convention
held in Macon each fall.
The Federation has already
been invited to appoint a com
mittee to meet with and advise
the Game and Fish Commission
in its efforts to improve hunt
ing and fishing in the state. The
body also takes an active part
in Legislative matters to make
sure that the interests of out-
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American Legion
To Meet Tuesday
Newton County Post 32
American Legion will hold its
regular monthly meeting Tues
day, May 5 at Legion Home.
The meal will be served at 7
o’clock.
Commander Lewis White has
requested all Legionnaires to
attend the meeting if at all
possible.
was conducted last August 26-
28 at the Newton County High
School, and which was co
sponsored by the Library Club,
of which Jean Smith is presi
dent, and the Student Council,
of which Bob Travis is presi
dent. Participants included of
ficers of about 20 student or
ganizations at NCHS.
Director of the workshop was
Miss Eva Gardner, who is re
! cognized throughout the state
as a skilled teacher and an
authority on parliamentary
i procedure.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1964
Gorman Hears Tribute on Eve of Retirement
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O. B. "Country" Gorman, chief scout executive of the Atlanta Area Council for the past
eight years, bows his head in gratitude as tributes are paid him at the 48th Annual
Meeting of the Council held Tuesday night at the Bert Adams Boy Scout Reservation
near Covingion. "Country" retires with 40 years of service to boys through the scouting
program. Seated beside him with a happy smile on her face is his wife who has aided
and encouraged him in his work through the years.
‘Mysterious’ Telephone Caller
Caught By Covington Police
Covington Police have ar
rested a 19-year-old Negro
youth in connection with nu
merous telephone calls to Cov
ington women during the past
three months.
The arrest came late Thurs
day afternoon at the youth’s
home from which he made
many of the calls, many to
prominent women of the city.
Police said he used “vulgar
language and tried to date the
women offering some of them
sums of money up to SSO for
a date.’’ ,
When apprehended at his
home a telephone directory
was found with many names
checked off and police Chief
Wendell Kitchens and Mayor
Walker Harris said that the
boy admitted making calls to
the numbers checked off in
the Covington directory.
City Police stated that the
youth is employed in a nearby
county on a construction job.
They said that he got the idea
for the telephones calls when
he visited a beauty salon on
Auburn Avenue in Atlanta.
Also he told Police that he
had read several sex magazines
in recent months.
Local Police had been de
luged with complaints from
women about a man calling
"College Careers"
Theme of Kiwanis
Meeting Today
Newton County High School
students whose fathers are
members of the Covington Ki
wanis Club will be honored
guests at the regular weekly
meeting of the club today
(Thursday) at Legion Home at
1 o’clock. Sutton Hardy, a
member of Kiwanis Vocational
Guidance Committee, is in
charge of the program today.
Students who will attend the
meeting today and view a film
on college life, are as follows:
George Barton. Michelle Reece,
Mike Pratt, Mason Stephenson,
Sally Hardman, Cathie Hardy,
Bill Wood. Terry Smith, Fred
Harwell, Jr., and Carol Calla
way. Also two members of the
Newton Key Club will be pre
sent.
The.theme of the program
I will be “College Careers.”
them and asking for a date and
talking vulgar. Husbands of
several of these women re
ported to the City Police and
gave further particulars about
the calls. The GBI and Cov
ington Police have been work
ing incessantly on the case for
sometime. They reported that
the young man had eluded
several traps set for him.
Chief Kitchens and Mayor
Harris said that the youth's
trial will be held in t'he near
future. It was understood that
he faces prosecution on each
call made. Chief Kitchens said
that numerous complaints had
been received in the past few
weeks.
Palmer-Stone
Students Average
93 in Past 6 Weeks
These students of Palmer
Stone School in the fifth
through the eighth grades had
an average of 93. including
conduct, during the past six
weeks:
sth Grade — Janice Aylor,
Rodney Bankston, Kay Dobbs,
Teresa Ellis, Dianne Garner,
Randy Higgins, Euvonda Stone,
Shelia McCart. Carolyn Mc-
Giboney, Cindy Meyer, Sam
my Williams.
6th Grade —Tommy Allgood,
Janet Burson, Susan Chester.
7th Grade — Connie Cole
man, Chris Costley, Ricky
Flansgan, Debbie Jones. Martha
Kemp. Eve Morris. Edna Motes,
Margaret Price. Sherry Thomp
son. Ramona Townley, Cathy
Womack, Mike Whatley
Bth Grade — Mary Bruno,
Ronnie Capes, Catherine Cow
an, William Cowan. Carol
Dobbs, Judy Goss, Mari de 1
Meyer, Nancy Parker, Randy
Williams.
Mansfield Class
To Stage Cake
Sale on May 9
The Wesley Morgan Class of
the Mansfield Methodist
Church will sponsor a cake sale
on Saturday, May 9th, at the
Newton County Courthouse at
10 a. m. Cakes may be ordered
in advance by calling Mrs.
Clarence Hays at 786-6550.
Mrs. Penick's Piano
Pupils in Recital
At Palmer Stone
Mrs. M. S. Penick will pre
sent a piano recital at Palmer
Stone School on Tuesday even
ing, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. Pupils
who will participate are: Don
na Williams, Teresa Ellis, Lynn
House, Wade Hood, Vickie
Maughon, Lynn McCart, Sheila
Day, Albert Conrad, Patricia
Burroughs, Cathy Williams,
Jocelyn Hinton. Marshall Atha,
Karen Brandham, Deborah
Meadors, Tim Bruce, Cindy
Meyer, Lynda Knight, Sherry
Thompson, Lesl yn n Dobbs,
Sheila McCart, Jimmie Lynn
Hawk, and Deborah Watkins.
All parents and friends are
cordially invited to attend.
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NEWTON-ROCKDALE SPRING CAMPOREE of Boy Scouts in the district gets final
plans as these adult scout leaders discuss the May 1-2-3 event io be held at Camp Bert
Adams Reservation. Left to right: Charles Burnett, S. J. Morcock, Homer F. Sharp and
Carlos Meyer (stand ng), Camporee Chief.
Judge Guess Rules In Favor
City Os Covington In Case
Judge Frank A. Guess presiding in Newton County
Superior Court ruled Saturday morning in favor of the City
of Covington’s position in the tax revaluation suit brought
against the city by W. T. Greer, Sr. and C. E. Trainer.
The reason given by Judge
Guess for his ruling on the suit
was that the suit “did not state
a cause of action.” The case is
now moot unless it is appealed
to the Supreme Court of Geor
gia within 30 days.
Hunnicutt and Associates, the
tax revaluation firm employed
by the city to appraise property
value, has completed the work
called for in the contract with
the city and the Covington City
Council has voted to assess pro
perty taxes on a basis of seven
ty five per cent of the fair
market value of property.
Greeley Ellis, attorney for
the city, stated he and the City
Councilmen were pleased with
the decision sustaining the
city’s position in the case.
“We feel that the tax reva
luation program is a very
worthwhile and necessary pro
gram for Covington and we
would be disappointed to see
anything impede the progress
of our town,” Mr. Ellis said.
Mr. Ellis explained that as
BSA Camporee
May 1-3 al Camp
Berl Adams Site
The Newton - Rockdale Boy
Scout Camporee will be held
this weekend. May 1, 2 and 3
at the Bert Adams Scout Res
ervation on Route 36, South
of Covington. Carlos B. Meyer
of Oxford is serving as Camp
oree Chief and Jim Knight is
Deputy Chief.
Assisting Meyer and Knight
will be Doyle Bailey, Judging;
Homer Sharp, Training; Cecil
Allgood, Sunday Service; Gra
dy Coleman and Dean Getz, i
Activities Director; Dr. E. J.
Callaway, First Aid and Sani
tation and Mr. Meyer will be
Campfire Director.
The Scouts will check in
Friday after school and Friday
night each troop will have their |
own campfire program.
Saturday morning from 9
until 11:30 will be the Adven
ture Trail under the direction
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SOCIETY .Ml
SPORTS 15
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the percentage of assessment is
raised on property value the
millage rate will be reduced
proportionately.
“Those people who have been
paying their fair share of taxes
in the city theoretically will
not have their taxes increased,
and those people who have not
paid their fair share in the past
will have an increase in their
taxes,” according to Mr. Ellis,
W. D. Ballard and Troy R.
Thigpen, attorneys for the
plaintiffs, said Wednesday that
they are accepting the ruling
and appealing the case to the
Supreme Court. Action is ex
pected by the court within 30
to 60 days.
Covington-Newton
C. of C. to Meet
Monday at 12:30
The May meeting of the Cov
ington-Newton County Chamb
er of Commerce will be held
■ Monday, May 4 at the Teen Can
I building at 12:30. President
Greeley Ellis will be the pre
: siding official.
Two study committees will
make their reports at the meet
ing Monday. President Ellis
appointed a committee to in
vestigate the possibility of
Covington being connected in
the Atlanta telephone ex
change. Dean V. Y. C. Eady is
chairman of this committee and
the other committee member!
are Ray Reece and Hugh Har
ris.
The Chamber’s Planning
Committee for Newton County
will also make a report Mon
day. Chairman of that commit*
tee is Ed Robinson, and the
other members are John Bob
Weaver, Marshall Elizer, Walk
er Harris, Everett Pratt and
Tom Bates (Ex-Officio meme
ber).
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