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$1 Million Needed
For Olympic Fund
As you read, the Olympic torch — lit
by Mayor Wagner in New York and hand
ed to Olympic Star Jesse Owens, lead-off
man of 3,500 runners, is on its way to Los
Angeles and the goal of a million dollars
to support US Olympic teams.
This "Run for the Money,” began at
11 am September first, And continuing for
26 days and nights as an unbroken chain
of runners spans the nation, is expected
to bring the torch into the Los Angeles
Coliseum at half-time of the pro football
game between the Los Angeles Rams and
‘he Minnesota Vikings on the afternoon
:o.‘ September 27th.
The 3,155 mile coast-to-coast relay run
'is not only the most ambitious feat of its
■kind ever undertaken but also marks
America's first all-out drive to win nation
wide participation —by the cities and
the grassroots — in the training and sup
port of our Olympic athletes. Run for the
Money is jointly sponsored by the US
Junior Chamber of Commerce and the
Thom McAn Shoe Company and involves
the combined efforts of 100,000 volunteers
to do the running, make the arrangements
and collect the million dollar fund.
The Run for the Money idea was spark
ed by Thom McAn — appointed this year
for the fourth successive time to supply
footwear to our Olympic Team. The run
ners, who include business men and civic
leaders (a number of them Jaycees), col
lege and high school athletes and ex-
Olympians, were mobilized by the Junior
Chamber who also enlisted the massive
manpower for the fund-raising.
As the athletes jog along the continental
route that plumbs the depths of the Hud
son River (via the Holland Tunnel), climbs
the Appalachians, spans prairie and desert
and scales the heights of the Great Divide,
a team many times as large will seek
the contributions of all Americans who
want to be represented at the games in
Tokyo.
It might be noted in this connection
that the Olympic Committee neither re
ceives nor seeks Federal subsidy.
Plans are that the President of the
United States will be on hand to greet
the final runner as he enters the Coliseum,
and for the send-off ceremonies honoring
the 510 men and women of the US Olympic
Team who fly next day to Tokyo.
But, if that million dollar check ar
rives with the torch and the runner —
and we should all be ashamed if it doesn’t
— America will already have two 1964
Olmpic champs — The Jaycees and Shoe
maker Thom!
Treasury To Double
Coin Production
The Treasury has announced an inten
sified program to double the nation’s rate
of coin production within a year and raise
it by 75 percent during the subsequent
six months.
By next June, the program will boost
our coin production to an annual rate of
over 9 billion new coins — more than
double the 4.3 billion level for fiscal 1964
and triple the 3 billion level for fiscal
1961. For the last six months of this year
— normally a time of peak demand for
coins — the program will mean a 75 per
cent increase in coin production over the
same period last year, a rise to 3.5 billion
new coins from the 2 billion produced in
the last half of 1963.
This increased production will be dis
tributed among the present 5 denomina
tions of coins in about the present ratios
— roughly two-thirds pennies, one-fourth
nickels and dimes, and the rest quarters
and half-dollars.
The new program will augment the
Treasury’s already heightened efforts to
expand the nation’s coin production in
the face of a growing need for coins.
Steps already taken to expand current
production of coins include the purchase
of rolled nickel strip for the making of
all five-cent coins — thus freeing equip
ment for other production — and the in
auguartion of a continuous 7-day, 24-hour
production schedule at the nation's two
Mints, in Denver and Philadelphia.
These actions will increase production
for the coming-fiscal year by 600 million
coins, bringing total budgeted production
up to some 5 billion coins.
The Treasury Department will con
tinue to seek out ways of assuring an ad
equate supply of coinage with existing
facilities — pending the construction of
the new Philadelphia Mint authorized
more than a year ago. This Mint will re
place the current Philadelphia Mint, and
will be capable of producing coins at a
higher rate than both existing Mints to
gether. However, since funds are only now
becoming available to proceed with con
struction of the new Mint, its construction
ps months behind the Treasury’s original
schedule — and it will probably begin
coin production in 1967, instead of in 1966
as originally expected by the Treasury.
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Don’t Blame Auto
The Public Health Service reports that
for the first four months of 1964 the auto
mobile accident death rate was 13 per cent
higher than for the same period in 1963.
The marvel is that the death rate isn’t
higher than that when you see the total
lack of courtesy and respect for others
shown by drivers on public highways. Too
many of them think (or don’t think) as
they sit behind the wheel of a car with
a 200 to 350 horsepower engine that they
own the road. They pay no attention to
speed laws, they ignore the simplest driv
ing rules, and they seem to think that it
will always be the other fellow who will
be hurt, instead of themselves, when they
cause accidents.
You read in the newspapers of one
car accidents. The polite phrase is used,
"the car went out of control.” That really
means the driver couldn’t handle his rac
ing machine at the speed he was driving
when a curve, a tree or a power pole
failed to get out of his way.
The better the highway the greater the
danger, because most drivers are totally
incompetent to handle their cars at the
speeds they can go in violation of speed
limits.
Until respect for others improves, auto
mobile killings will continue to mount.
Future Unlimited
Are you a young person still receiving
formal education who hasn’t yet decided
on what career to pursue? If so, consider
the food business.
That, in substance, is the view of a
top authority — Wendell Earle, professor
of marketing at Cornell University. In a
statement appearing in a publication of a
leading food chain, First National Stores,
he says, “There is almost unlimited op
portunity in the food industry, especially
for young people starting now.” And he
has a convincing barrage of facts to back
that opinion up. The food business is
America’s largest industry, and its sales
came to almost S6O billion last year —
double the figure of 15 years ago. Some
1,650,000 workers were employed in retail
foods. And continued growth is assured
— our swelling population, which is expect
ed to pass 200 million by the end of this
decade will see to that.
But growth is only part of the story.
Change makes up another big part. Pro
fessor Earle finds we’ve just started with
convenience foods which reduce home
work. Automation will improve customer
services. That means more time for per
sonal contact with customers.
Here is Professor Earle’s conclusion:
“The future in food is unlimited — in
stores, in science, education, agriculture,
processing, packaging, warehousing, trans
portation, engineering, construction, arch
itecture, human relations, finance and
leadership at all levels. Competition will
increase in all these areas for the best
possible products, service and people the
industry can provide!”
Wrong Incentive
James Long, poll editor of the Oregon
Journal asked residents of Portland and
vicinity: Do you approve of the $7,500 a
year pay raise congressmen voted for
themselves?
The results, in percentages: Approve
22.7; disapprove 74.5; no opinion 2.8.
Said Mr. Long, “The thing that lifted
the eyebrows of most of poll participants
was not the raise itself, but the size of
the raise and its proportion to the present
salary for lawmakers . . . $22,500 a year
to $30,000.”
It was pointed out by persons ques
tioned that there is no shortage of can
didates for Congress and that there are a
number of congressmen who do not de
serve such a raise.
If income is to be the incentive for
seeking high political office, the future of
our republic is on a shaky foundation.
Brookville, Pa., American: “The aver
age American would explode in righteous
indignation if someone suddenly told him
he didn’t have the right to vote. The sad
fact is, however, that far too many who
have the privilege are letting it go to
waste. Estimates are that unless somebody
shakes them out of their apathy and in
difference, some 40 million eligibles will
neglect to cast ballots in November.”
Selmer, Tenn., Independent: “Too,
we've always said a vacation was good
for everyone. We used to get cocky and
think. ‘Well, this place just couldn’t get
along without me!' Then along comes va
cation time, we take off on a trip, all the
while worrying what’s going on back on
the job, and only half enjoying the vaca
tion for fear of the chaos we were sure
to find when we returned. Then, bingo,
we returned only to find the business ran
right on just the same. Good for a person.”
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
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MARY SESSIONS MALLARI
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at Covington, Georgia, at
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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: OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
!S unday Schoou
"The Saving Deeds of the
Lord”
Devotional Reading:
Psalms 47:1-10; Memory
Selection: All these, though
well attested by their faith,
did not receive what was
promised, since God had
foreseen something better for
us, that apart from us they
should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:39-40.
Intermediate-Senior Top
ic: What Is God Doing?
Young People-Adult Top
ic: "The Saving Deeds of the
Lord"
This lesson concludes a
series on Early Hebrew Hi
story. It embraces that
period extending from the
emergence of the Hebrews
from Egypt to the beginning
of Saul’s reign.
These lessons reflect God’s
concern for a people beaten
down by the cruelest type ot
tyranny. It also shows forth
the providences by which
Israel is brought to Canaan
and established as a nation
in that land promised cen
turies before to Abraham and
his descendants. .In these les
sons we find revealed the
moral and religious basis of
Israel’s national life, the
place of the sacrificial type
of religion to which they
were committed by God, and
the institution of the taber
nacle worship.
The lesson this week sums
up the teaching of the twelve
preceding lessons. We obser
ve in this lesson God’s saving
concern for his people and
our place in God’s plan of
redemption.
These lessons have made it
possible for us to observe the
unfolding of God’s redem
ptive purpose and to consider
the responsibilities which
God’s plan imposes upon us
and the opportunity which it
offers us.
In the two lessons immedi
ately preceding this one we
have observed the towering
figure of Samuel, a true man
of God.
Samuel was one of those
individuals selected at times
by the Almighty for the sett
ing forth among men of di
vine requirements and pro
cedures.
Samuel had now come to
the end of his career. It
would naturally be expected
that his sons would take up
their father’s work. Samuel
made his sons judges over
Israel (1 Samuel 8:1), but
these sons of the great seer
“walked not in his ways, but
turned aside after lucre, and
turned aside, and perverted
judgment” (8:3). Then the
elders of Israel came before
Samuel and demanded that
he make them a king who
would judge them as did the
kings of surrounding nations.
This was a sad blow to a
man who had given his life
so unreservedly to his fellow
countrymen and to God. In
addition to the disappoint
ment of having unworthy
sons, Samuel now confronted
the hateful necessity of hav
ing to transform the life of
the Hebrew people from a
so-called “theocracy,” oi
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government of a nation by
the immediate direction ot
God, to a secular state pre
sided over by a king.
We have already observed
that Samuel was the last of
the judges and the first of
the prophets. He was that
intermediate figure who led
his people from one type of
national life into another.
After him came Elijah, Elis
ha, and finally the so-called
“literary prophets” beginning
with Amos, who left records
of their works and utter
ances.
Abraham had left Ur of
the Chaldees and in a new
land had set up a spiritual
colony. These were God’s
people. Samuel wanted to
continue the social and poli
tical forms which Abraham
had initiated, but the people
would not have it so.
We note in verse 7 the
words: “Now therefore stand
still, that I may reason with
you before the Lord of all
righteous acts of the Lord
which he did to you and to
your fathers."
There is much significance
in that command to “stand
still.” Men have probably
never been anxious to stand
still and await the word from
the Lord. We moderns are
activists, full of energy and
anxious to change the world,
and by our much diligence
usher in the kingdom of God.
To us come the words of
Samuel: “N o w therefore
stand still, that I may reason
with you before the Lord
. . This means periods of
quietness every day in Bible
reading and prayer. It means
reflection upon what we
know to be right and the
giving of our lives over again
to that One who created us.
God had led his people out
of Egypt and made them to
dwell in the land he had pro
mised Abraham.
This would seem to have
been the climax and triumph
of their national life. As a
matter of fact, it was only
the beginning of their
national life. They were to
fall into grievous sin and
later be delivered by God’s
power.
In Judges 4 we read of
Sisera, captain of a vast and
hostile army under whose
power the Hebrews had fall
en. Deborah, the prophetess,
and Barak, he general whom
she directed, effected a great
deliverance at this time. The
people recognized the fact
that they had fallen into ser
vitude because of their sin.
They had forsaken the Lord
and had served Baal and
Ashtoreth, divinities (male
and female) of the Canaani
tes. Because these deities
were usually supplicated for
the purpose of increasing
fertility both in the land and
among the people, vile and
immoral practices arose in
connection with their wor
ship.
This corruption threatened
at times to destroy the whole
plan for human redemption
which God had instituted
through the Hebrews.
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PEP PILLS (ampheta
mines) impair judgment,
says the Harvard Medical
School. A study of 78 male
students, who took a calculus
test after being given the
pills, showed that they over
estimated to a significant
degree the number of pro
blems they actually solved
correctly, although it had no
effect on their ability to sol
ve the problems. Harvard
says this stresses the need
for “cautious generalization"
concerning the benefits of
dr u g-induced changes in
mental performance.
LOS ANGELES city fath
ers are urging residents to
grow “fireproof” plants. In
hopes of averting brush fires
such as have ravaged some
areas of the city in recent
years, leaflets on creeping
rosemary, purple rockrose,
wooly yarrow and other fire
resistant flora are being dis
tributed . . . FOOTBALL is
the nation’s most popular
participation sport, according
to a study conducted by the
National Federation of State
High School Athletic Associ
ations. There are 772,802
boys playing on 12,922 high
school teams in this country.
There are more basketball
teams — 19,112 — but only
639,755 students play be
cause the teams are smaller
than football squads.
PLASTIC traffic markings
are simplifying municipal
maintenance problems. Flex
ible, reflectorized vinyl
plastic strips', arrows, letters
and numerals coated on one
side only with a pressure
sensitive adhesive are easy
to apply to paved surfaces,
replacing conventional paint
ed traffic markings. Accord
ing to J. W. Neff Laborato
ries, Stockertown, Pennsyl
vania, no special tools are
needed, and “Presslabs” can
be applied rapidly, creating
practically no traffic delays
. . . FUTURE CROOKS can
be spotted on the day they
begin school, say two Ame
rican criminologists who have
developed a test to determine
latent criminal potential. The
test is said to be 80-90 per
cent accurate and determines
such things as whether a boy
who pulls a girl’s hair is a
potential delinquent or just
high-spirited.
ANIMAL population in
creases cause physiological
changes that alter birth and
death rates, according to
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity. In a study of mice, the
growth of the population re
sulted in an increase in the
secretion of hormones which
interfere with antibodies,
vital in the body’s fight
against infectious diseases.
This raised the morbidity, or
disease and death rate, in the
mouse population.
THE ODDS are 53,644,-
737, 765, 488,792,839,237,439,
999 to 1 against it, but a
bridge foursome in England
made it when they were each
dealt a perfect hand. Only
trouble is they didn’t get to
play it because one was so
excited that she tipped her
hand to the others before the
bidding began.
By: Mr*. Tom Harwell
Jesus said to confused in
dividuals: "I am the way,
the truth, and the life: No
man cometh unto the Father,
but by me."
Thia is a great truth
among many, which helps
me to understand what it
means to be a Christian. To
have the assurance, that God
through the gift of His Son
is concerned about me and to
know that He loves me.
To fully comprehend this,
in all humility I know I can
put my trust in God giving
thanks at the same time that
I do not have to rely upon
my own strength and resour
ces. for God can and He will
take care of me.
Certainly I must need Him
and keep the channels open
through which He may reach
me; and truly this thought
must be a constant reminder
that God and His will must
come first in my daily life.
God and His Church are
very real to me. They re
present so much more than
just an intellectual assent to
their existence. In fact there
can be no separation one
from the other.
God has been good to me
and as I give thanks to Him
daily for the many blessings
with which He and His
church have so enriched my
life, I become intensely
aware of an overwhelming
desire to have God believe in
me — to put His will first
in my life — to someday gain
His stamp of approval.
To live up to these inner
most thoughts there must be
a constant process of main
taining God’s presence, with
me and of course continued
spiritual growth that some
day God might count me
among the mature Christ
ians. I ask myself is it poss
ible to do this in a world so
filled with tensions, confu
sions and unrest 5 ’ The answ
er comes back to me again
that certainly this cannot be
done alone but again, God
cares and He will help me.
The Church, the beauty of
the Sanctuary, the atmos
phere of worship, the sing
ing of the lovely Hymns, the
people there who have a
similar need, bring God so
close to me — Surely His
presence can be and should
be very real and meaning
ful at that time.
We sometimes say it is our
duty to attend Church, and
it is, but very few go for
that reason. However to go
out of a sense of duty is to
miss the purpose of the
church. Those who gain the
most are there from a sense
of need. Their minds and
hearts are open to the pre
sence of God - And until that
need is really felt one does
not completely have God’s
power or presence with him.
WAar God
and His
, Church Mean
To ME
God. and His Church help
me to look ahead, always
conscious of others and their
need of God also. To know
that God expects me to do
what I can, however small
it may be, for them and al
ways in His Service. To seek
the Kingdom of God and His
Righteousness, and all these
things will fall into their
rightful places. I pray then
for His presence to Guide me
and again am assured of that
presence.
God and His Church give
me the fulfillment of a life I
so earnestly desire to live —
To attain that life is up to
me as I constantly seek to
acknowledge Him in all my
ways, and in faith and con
fidence know that He will
direct my paths.
Apples and Rice Top
October Plentiful s
Apples and rice top the
October plentiful foods list
prepared by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture’s
Marketing Service.
Other foods which are ex
pected to be in generous
supply in the Southeast in
October are cheese, beef,
Bartlett pears, and turkeys.
USDA estimates the 1964
apple crop at 14(7.1 million
bushels. This is about 17
percent more than last year,
20 percent more than aver
age, and the largest crop sin
ce 1937. The crop includes
69.4 milion bushels expect
ed to be harvested in 14
eastern states.
With a record large rice
harvest of 72 million hun
dredweight in prospect,
southeas tern homemakers
can plan to use this versatile
food as background for
many of their favorite en
tree specialties.
Various kinds of cheese
will be plentiful in October
following production the
first half of 1964 that was M
6 percent larger than dur-;
ing the same period a year
ago. Beef and turkeys will
continue plentiful as sup
plies going to market re
main large. The Bartlett
pear crop, at 19.7 million
bushels, is 66 percent larg
er than last year.
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