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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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IJO s. MALLARD
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
WE-THE PEOPLE
Despite the infinite pros and cons ex
pressed concerning City Council’s recent
action in licensing the sale of beer in the
c ity _ W e, the people, are responsible.
The Council’s ruling was not unanimous.
Guy Evans and Fred Kitchens would not
change, or abstain, from their vote of
“No." We congratulate these two, who
stood by their moral convictions. Luke
Savage, Buddy Baker, Don Wood and E.
E. Callaway voted for the measure.
Much resentment is voiced relative to
the fact that a measure of such import
was not thrown open in a city referen
dum, as such, to allow citizens a voice in
its pasage or rejection. A county referen
dum on the beer issue, in November 1962,
netted 1,853 ballots against, and 1,409 for
licensing. Covington was the only precinct
in the county voting a small majority of
750 for and 691 against.
Licensing the sale of alcoholic bever
ages has long since been left to the dis
cretion of local citizenry. We are grateful
that the current County Commissioner
Tom Bates, and former councilmen have
refrained from issuing such licenses,
through the years.
We deplore the licensing of the sale
of beer in the city or county, for the pre
ponderance of evidence indisputably links,
increase of crime, slaughter on the high
ways, broken homes and other social ills
with the legalized sale of alcohol. Alcohol-
No Witch's Broomstick
There are so flying saucers — also fly
ing washtubs, flying eyeglasses, flying
knapsacks, or what look like them — and
many more weird contraptions that will
whisk a human, or 200 of them, off the
earth and return him or them right-side
up with care.
“These things exist. They work,” writes
Wolfgang Langewiesche in the June Read
er’s Digest. “How soon you’ll be looking
out the window at them is another ques
tion — maybe five years, maybe 15. But
they are coming, and you may want a
briefing.”
This, the author proceeds to give us
in his article: “Look at the New Flying
Machines.” Flying, he explains, is a mat
ter of pushing air around. Push it under
you to get off the ground, behind you
to get from here to there. With this in
mind, we can begin, at least to have some
comprehension of the new planes that
take off straight up and land (gently)
down; of the Flying Crane, that can hover
over a mired ten-ton truck or battlefield
cannon, pick it up, move it slowly and put
it down where it can function. At the
other end of the scale is the “Hoppicopter”
which you strap to your back and hop
off for an airborne 1,000 feet or so.
Then there are the "ground-effect ve
hicles," “hovercraft” or “skimmers,” which
says Mr. Langewiesche, “fly not at 20
feet, but at two feet or two inches . . .
just off the ground — or off the water.”
Already in use in ferry service between
North Wales and England, more such ve
hicles — or air-cushion vessels — are now
building. Trains, suggests the author, may
one-day fly just above the tracks and
loaded trucks breeze along an inch or
so above low-cost rights-of-way.
But still, those who can remember
what people were saying about the Wright
Brothers — even after they’d proved
something on the North Carolina dunes
— will agree with the Digest writer when
he concludes: “And however fanciful they
get, the new air vehicles will never seem
as crazy as that contraption at Kitty
Hawk.”
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big business is making an exodus to the
suburban areas. Shopping centers are able
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and it’s surprising what this can do to
the small businessman, who in order to
keep his volume is forced to stay open
longer hours, resulting in a higher over
head. That's when the value of promotion
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Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at Hie Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of Hie Second
Class.
ism now ranks as the nation's fourth major
health problem; and the American Med
ical Association estimate shows that 1 of
every 15 present-day teen-agers are po
tential alcoholics. The lack of licensed
sale of alcoholic beverages has been a
deciding factor, according to our inter
views with many newcomers, in their
choice of Newton County to rear their
families. We do not believe licensing of
the sale of alcoholic beverages can be to
the best interest of city or county; and
reiterate the stand The NEWS has always
taken against the licensing and sale of
same.
It has been repeatedly stated that beer
and other alcoholic beverages are illegally
and widely sold locally, and that legaliza
tion would be better. That despite appre
hension of violators by officers, who often
risk their lives in the pursuit of duties, a
jury of supposedly “12 good men and true,”
chosen from local citizenry, all too often
finds a “not guilty” verdict. If this is the
case, then licensing beer so it will be legal,
is not the answer. We had best borrow
Diogenes lamp and take a long look at
our own integrity and support of our law
enforcement officers.
For, if we have allowed such a tongue
in-cheek attitude to become prevalent,
through our moral lethargy; then we, the
people, are responsible.
Who Needs Money?
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Passenger
Flight, which we celebrate this year, is
as momentous in its way as the very first
flight of any airplane, when Orville
Wright, only 11 years earlier, kept his
“propeller-driven box-kite" in the air for
12 seconds and flew 120 feet over the sands
of Kitty Hawk.
And another aviation milestone we pass
this year is the Thirtieth Anniversary of
the world’s first air credit card. Aviation’s
first courageous customer, strapped in the
single passenger seat of the open-cockpit
"air-liner” for the flying journey from
St. Petersburg to Tampa in 1914, not only
ranks, in our view, with the man who
ate the first oyster, but had to have fare
in his pants pocket.
Other brave souls, however, eagerly
followed his example. One new airline af
ter another began taking earthlings into
the sky. By 1934, air travel had become
an established industry and one enterpris
ing airline developed the world’s first
credit card for the convenience of its pas
sengers. The others followed, and late in
1935, all got together on a single, industry
wide Universal Air Travel Plan, under
which the first credit card good for travel
on all U.S. scheduled airlines was honored
on New Year’s Day, 1936. Twelve years
later, the Plan became worldwide in scope.
Today’s Air Travel Card (that’s the
official name of it) is unique in several
ways. A traveler may choose the “North
American” card, or the “International,”
good for travel anywhere. He may have
a card of either type covering himself
alone, or his employees and family as
well; or the unrestricted type — as wide
open as the wild blue yonder. Good orig
inally for air transportation only, the card’s
usefulness was extended in 1959 to pro
vide credit in restaurants and hotels, for
communications, secretarial service and
car rental.
A million-and-a-quarter Americans, we
are told, are card-carrying flyers (ATC
cards, that is). This card will carry its
owner all over the continent or around
the world — without a cent in his pock
et, if he’s willing to read newspapers over
people’s shoulders.
SAN DIEGO, CALIF., PRESS: "...
the Christmas Seal Association is empha
sizing its efforts in ‘RD Symptom Alert’
this month and next. Common symptoms
of RD, against which this earnest group
wishes to alert us, are chronic cough and
shortness of breath. The motto of this
educational program is: ‘Cough too much?
Short of breath? Don’t take chances with
Respiratory Disease. See a doctor!’ ”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUK WIIKLY
UNDAY
God Delivers His People
Devotional Reading: Exo
dus 15:11-18. Memory Selec
tion: I am the Lord, . . . and
I will redeem you with an
out-stretched arm and with
great acts of judgment. Exo
dus 6:6
Intermediate-Senior Top
ic: God’s Mighty Deliver
ance.
Young People-Adult Top
ic: God Delivers His People.
After Moses had been
commissioned to lead the
children of Israel out of
Egypt, he sought out his
brother Aaron, who was to
be his spokesman, before
Pharaoh. They requested
Pharaoh to let the Hebrews
go, “that they may hold a
feast unto (God) in the
wilderness” (Exodus 5:1).
Pharaoh, in a fit of rage,
cries out, “Who is the Lord,
that I should obey his voice
to let Isael go? I know not
the Lord, neither will I let
Israel go" (Exodus 5:2).
How these words of human
pride contrast with the di
vine words which appear in
the first part of our printed
:ext today! We shall say
more about this later.
Thinking that the Hebrew
slaves had too much time to
think about other things
than their work. Pharaoh
made their labor more oner
ous by making them gather
the straw for the bricks
which they made, and re
quiring that the same num
ber of bricks be made as be
fore when straw was sup
plied. When the people
learned of their new tribu
lations, they complained bit
terly to Moses and Aaron.
By asking Pharaoh for per
mission to go on a pilgrim
age to sacrifice, they had
come into disrepute and
were brought almost to ruin.
Moses, deeply disturbed be
cause of this failure, pled
with the Lord, saying
“Wherefore hast thou so evil
entreated this people? why
is it that thou hast sent me’
For since I came to Pharaoh
to speak in thy name, he
hath done evil to this people:
neither hast thou delivered
thy people at all” (Exodus
5:22-23).
Moses was a praying man.
which was one of the reasons
for his greatness. One of the
great intercessory prayerrs
of all time was prayed by
Meses after the children of
Israel had fashioned the
golden calf and God had
theratened to destroy them
(Exodus 32:31-32). And
now, at the time of his first
setback. Moses goes to God
and asks why Pharaoh re
fused to let Israel go.
Assurance is what Moses
needed at a time like this,
and God reminded Moses
who He was and what He
had done in the past. “I am
the Lord.” What further as
surance did Moses need? The
God whom he worshipped
was not an idol or a blind
force in nature. He was the
God of Moses’ forebears, a
living, loving God who was
concerned about his people
and their welfare. He had
appeared unto the patriarchs
of old, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacobs, and had led them in
their wanderings, and he
would be with Moses also.
To be sure, God was
known by another name in
those early days, but he was
still the same God. “I ap
peared unto Abraham, unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the name of God Almighty,
but by my name Jehovah
was I not known to them”
(Exodus 6:3). God had made
his new name known to
Moses when he appeared to
him in the desert in the
flame of fire which sur
rounded the bush (Exodus
3:1-14).
The God to whom Moses
was praying was the God
who established his covenant
with the patriarchs, "to give
them the land of Canaan,
the land of their pilgrimage,
wherein they were strang
ers” (Exodus 6:4). God had
made an agreement with
Abraham and his descend
ants that they should have
the land of Canaan as their
inheritance, and God never
goes back on his promises.
This same God now heard
the groaning of the children
of Israel who were in bond
age, “and I have remem
bered my covenant. Where
fore say unto the children
of Israel, I am the Lord, and
I will bring you out from
under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I will rid you
of their bondage” (Exodus
6:5-6). God’s promises are
sure and everlasting. He
will deliver the Hebrews
from bondage, and bring
them back to their land.
God will not forget his
people! “I will redeem you
with a stretched out arm,
and with great judgments:
and I will take you to me for
a people, and I will be to you
a God: and ye shall know
that I am the Lord your God,
which bringeth you out from
under the burdens of the
Egyptians (Exodus 6:6-7).
Not only will God bring the
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Hebrews out of Egypt, but
he will bring them into the
land of Canaan which he
swore to give unto Abraham
and his descendants.
It is interesting to note the
number of times the pronoun
“I” occurs in this section, in
cluding verse 8 From verse
2 to verse 8 it occurs 17
times. One wonders whether
the writer is not emphasiz
ing thereby the power and
majesty of God with the
haughty statement of Phara
oh in 5:2, where he says only
once, “neither will I let
Israel go.” The great "I am"
overwhelms even the migh
tiest potentate on earth, and
no one will thwart his pur
pose. “I am the Lord!
Letters To
The Editor
July 13. 1964
Editor,
The Covington News
Dear- Sir,
This is a vigorous protest
toward the action of the
mayor and the city council
in voting beer sales for Cov
ington.
I protest first the under
handed way in which this
was done, without any pub
licity or any opportunity of
voice from either pros or
cons . . . shrouded in secrecy
that not even the news, media
knew about until your an
nouncement.
I protest their reasoning
that this will deter the sale
of beer illegally. They
know full well that
bootleggers will con
tinue to thrive. There are
too many people who will
still go to them after store
hours, and on Sundays. It
will only mean that they will
drive harder, to contaminate
our young people and to en
large their circle of custo
mers to compete. It will
mean that they will push
harder to get beer legalized
throughout the county.
I protest the fact that the
door has been carelessly
opened for a host of other
evils that accompany the
growth of a city which winks
at questionable morality . . .
in the name of progress. Sta
tistics prove time and time
again that the extra cost of
enforcement and punishment
for outweigh the tax bene
fits. To say nothing of un
told heartache spawned
from it.
I protest the licensing of
sale in grocery stores, where
it will be equated with food.
For to consider this as a
food item is like saying that
hard liquor is a medicine, or
that dope is a tranquilizer,
or that gambling is a hobby,
lor that prostitution is a psy
cological therapy. It is bad
that they lend credence this
way in the minds of our
children “that beer belongs”.
God forbid that you have
so soon forgot that public
trust carries with it great
moral responsibility.
Sincerely,
Sutton L. Hardy
P. S. It is doubly tragic
that they should add this
catylist to the racial unrest
prominent in our town.
Dear Sir:
The tumultuous, enthusi
astic standing-ovation re
ceived by Gov. Wallace, Gov.
Barnett and the other fine/
speakers at Lakewood Park
last July fourth has re-af
firmed faith and confidence
in our Georgia people all
over the South. People in
the other Southern States
are anxious to lend us their
support in this struggle for
return of sensible and con
stitutional government in
Washington.
This is no time to speak
of acquiesence and surrend
er, this is the time to start
talking about REPEAL of
the Civil Rights Bill! The
BEST time for counter-at
tack is IMMEDIATELY af
ter you’ve been pushed off
a strategic position!
However, retribution and
revenge MUST be at the
polls in November. Senator
Goldwater has already said,
siginificantly, that he can’t
win the election without the
support of the South. It is
equally obvious that Presi
dent Johnson can’t either!
This is the best chance the
South has ever had to decide
the kind of government WE
want in Washington.
Friends, it’s not going to
be enough just to send Sen
ator Goldwater to the White
House, we’ve got to nail
down some positive com
mitments from the Republi
can Party to modify and
eventually repeal the Civil
Rights Bill. The WAY to do
this has been clearly dem
onstrated by Gov. Wallace
in his plan for unpledged
electors. It WILL work if
we can all stick together.
We MUST cultivate a posi-
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tive attitude about thia —an
attitude io well exemplified
by Gov. Wallace in state
ment! such as: "Don't waste
my time telling me it can't
be done!” or “It's got to
come." (integration)
Now is the time to join or
support such fine organiza
tions as AMERICAN PA
TRIOTS and the CITIZENS
COUNCILS who are work
ing so hard and effectively
to oppose these outrages
against our people. This may
will be our LAST chance to
DO SOMETHING about this
deplorable situation. So let's
join hands and close ranks
—like we did on the battle
fields 100 years ago —with
our fellow Southerners and
show both Democrats and
Republicans that they can
NEVER take our vote for
granted again!
When they were introduc
ing Alabama’s unpledged
electors at Lakewood Park
July 4, we overheard some
fellow exclaim with much
emphasis: "Man, they’re on
the RAI J, over there in Ala
bama!"
Folks, let’s get on the
cotton - picking BALL in
GEORGIA!
Yours very truly,
T. C. Berry
Box 1631
EAFB, Fla
July 11, 1964
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Leo:
I read the article in last
week's paper about the ag
riculture award made to the
Covington News by the
National Editorial Associ
ation.
I join with the many odier
people in our area in offer
ing my congratulations.
Very truly yours,
Brooks Pennington,
Jr., Chairman
Senate Agriculture
and Natural Re
sources Committee
The Editors
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Sirs:
Lord help us! The Mayor
and the City Council have
voted to let Satan have a
permanent holiday in Cov
ington.
Mrs. J. E. Rowe
Route 4
Covington, Georgia
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THE POLITICAL GAME
By Joseph H. Baird
ATLANTA — Talk of a
special session of the Gen
eral Assembly to reappor
tion the House later this
summer has died down to
a whisper. Gov. Carl E.
Sanders won’t take the risk
of calling a Legislature that
might not act, and there's
almost no chance of getting
three-fifths of the House
and Senate members to or
der themselves back to At
lanta.
House Speaker George
T. Smith of Grady county,
back in Atlanta after a
brief stay at home, has
sounded out House senti
ment and found it heavily
against carrying out the Fed
eral court order for reap
portionment on a popula
tion basis now.
The more than 100 House
members who either have
no opposition or have been
renominated in early Dem
ocratic primaries prefer to
hang on to the assured 45
days of legislative life they
will have next January and
February rather than risk
the chance of not winning
in a reapportioned district.
At least, a majority of them
feel that way.
The three-judge Federal
court here granted a plea by
Gov. Sanders and legislative
leaders to delay reapportion
ment until the regular ses
sion next January. But when
the Legislature adjourned
three weeks ago, many of
the members felt they had
rather get the reapportion
ment job over this summer
and have done with it.
During the two days be
fore adjournment, Rep.
Mackie Simpson of Wheeler
county got more than 50
signatures to a petition for
a special session. The names
of 123 House members and
33 Senators would be re
quired for the Assembly to
call itself back.
It is understood Rep.
Simpson will start working
on his petition again after
the Democrafic primary of
Sept. 9. The Assembly then
might meet in October. But
Mr. Simpson isn’t thinking
of a reapportioned House to
meet in January. What he
has in mind is working out
a reapportionment plan be
fore the regular session, but
not having Representatives
from the new districts elect
ed until later next year.
They would take their seats
in January, 1966.
Senator W. Hugh Mc-
Whorter of the 43rd district
pointed out the other day
there was one danger in
failing to reapportion now.
He said that the biennial ap
propriations bill to be pass
ed next January might be
attacked in the courts on the
grounds that it was passed
by a “malapp ortio n e d ”
House. Or some citizen
might seek a cour order for
bidding the Governor to sign
it.
Some other legislators feel
that is just a chance that
will have to be taken.
Meanwhile, Speaker Smith
has appointed a 15-member
commission to study reap
portionment and report late
Thursday, July 16, 1964
in the fall. Assistant House
Leader George D. Busbee of
Dougherty county will be
chairman. The commission
includes 10 members from
small counties and five from
large and middle-sized
counties.
Talk so far has centered
on reapportionment on the
basis of Senatorial districts
—two or three House mem
bers from each. But the com
mission may come up with
some other idea.
• • • •
Secretary of State Ben
Fortson has warned coun
ties using voting machines
or tabulators that their
county commissioners will
have to take action approv
ing their use before the com
ing Democratic primaries.
All local legislation affect
ing this was wiped from the
slate in the newly - passed
Georgia Election Code.
Also, the code requires
that the Secretary of State
or his representative must
approve the equipment used
in each county. Mr. Fortson
plans to employ three men
to help him with this job.
He sent out copies of the
240-page, green-bound elec
tion code to every ordinary,
Democratic committee sec
retary and commissioner in
the state last week. Later
they will go to every lawyer
in Georgia.
The veteran Secretary of
State says the new code,
over which the Assembly
sweated for two months in
May and June, should make
Georgia elections more or
derly and cleaner.
“Most of the mistakes in
past elections weren’t inten
tional", he said. They came
about because election of
ficials didn’t know what to
do. The new code is clear
and easy to understand.”
* • • •
Legislators drifting into
Atlanta from all over the
state report a strong pro-
Goldwater surge. Or, as one
put it:
“It’s not so much that the
people are for Woldwater as
they are against Johnson
because of the Civil Rights
bill.”
Gov. Sanders and other
Democratic leaders are plan
ning a strong campaign for
the national ticket. It won’t
be safe this year to just “sit
by” and expect the usual
Democratic majority.
There are more than 17
insects that eat on pecan
trees, according to Extension
Service Horticulturist R. L.
Livingston.
Numbers of cattle on feed
April 1 were one percent
above a year earlier, accord
ing to Paul C. Bunce, Exten
sion Service market infor
mation and outlook special
ist.
One of the most common
sites of termite entry is from
areas under a concrete slab
floor, stoop, porch or car
port, says Entomologist V.
Rcdney Coleman of the Ex
tension Service.