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, THE COVINGV:I['ONN EWS
‘ BELMONT DENNIS
‘ Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
‘ AND THE
i CITY OF COVINGTON
Anarchists On Campus
Enrollment in American col=
leges jumped 17 percent this
fall, reaching a total of more than
5 million for the first time,
The significance of this is that
a very considerable group in the
nation consists of college stu
dents -- young people who are
acquiring skills and attitudes for
their mature years as citizens
and leaders,
It is a commonplace of gra
duation ceremonies to say that
these young people are the hope
of the nation, They are indeed.
The public philosophy they have
when they leave college will de
termine the future of the Ameri
can Republic -- its very fate, in
fact, Fortunately, the new gene
ration is one of which older
Americans can be proud. The
great majority is stable, sen
sible, and hard-working, True
Americanism is in no danger of
dying out while in their hands.
But this does not mean that
the country can ignore the acti
vities of an irresponsible
minority that has been influenc
ed in the wrong direction by
adults who want to shatter this
republic., Dr. Eric A, Walker,
president of Pennsylvania State
University, said the FBI had
warned him and other college
presidents last March’ of ‘‘an
organized attempt by foreign
money to disrupt the universities
of America’’ through the use of
¢“‘pogus students and bogus facul
ty members.,”’
¢ Thaty this - warngpg was well
justified was clearly demonstrat=
ed in early December by the
scandalous and treasonable acti
vities at the Berkely campus of
the University of California.
There about 1,000 ¢‘gtudents”’
jammed the university’s admin
istration building in an all-night
sit-in that disrupted the univer
sity administration for 15 hours.
~ University president Clark
Kerr termed the demonstrations
¢sanarchy by a willful minority
of radical students.’’ Even though
this group represented only 3
percent of the university’s en
rollment of 27,500, they creat
ed conditions of anarchy just
-because the university very pro
perly decided not to allow or
ganizations the right to advocate
on campus any cause they wanted
to -- whether legal or illiegal,
violent or non-violent -- as this
beatnik, communist, deluded -
student outfit demanded.
Even though a vast majority
of students had no part in the
scandalous conduct, the signifi
cant fact is that an organized,
radical minority was able todis
rupt one of the leading univer
sities in the United States. More
over, they did this under the mis
nomer that it was a Free Speech
Movement. And even more dis
tressing than this so-called ‘‘stu
dent’”” movement, if possible, is
the fact that the faculty of the
university voted 824 to 115 to
support the Free Speech Move
ment in its demands,
All of which points to the great
responsibility that rests not only
upon university officials, butalso
upon university regents, patrio
tic citizens, civic leaders and
public officials to prevent an
archy from invading the cam
puses of the country., Our uni
versity campuses must not be
come the seat of violent and
revolutionary tactics witnessed
in other ‘‘student’’ movements
over the world, Communist and
cther subversive elements must
not be allowed to spread the
agitation and disorders that have
racked the Berkeley campus of
the University of California. The
university officials and their
ruling bodies must set the rules
of conduct on the campuses, not
a tiny minority of radical stu
dents supported by ill-chosen
raculty members,
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Assoclate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Assoclate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgla, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
As soon as its new session is
under way, Congress should be
gin a formal inquiry into the
demonstrations at the University
of California, The question of
subversive involvement is a mat
ter that requires serious study
and a public report, Unless
there is an investigation, other
colleges in other states may
find themselves the target of an
archists who pose as legitimate
students -and faculty members,
.
30,000 Invitations
It will require the facilities
of three large hotels and Wash
ington’s National Guard Armory
to take care of LBJ’s Inaugural
Ball, since they’re not having it
in the Pentagon. Putting on the
Presidential strut simultaneous~-
ly in multiple locations is nothing
new, but it keeps the Committee
in a fine swivet and requires
a regiment of workers. It also
keeps the President and Vice
President and their spouses on
the jump since it is obviously
necessary to cover all four
arenas,
We mention this now since
¢‘invitations’’ (to buy tickets at
$25 apiece) are being mailed
out to 30,000 mysteriously chosen
Americans, and if you can find
one of these, you might be able
to make a buy. The price is
the same as in 1960, but the
boxes (where you can sit down)
will be $750 instead of $350.
Society Editor Wauhillau La
Hay of the Washington Daily
News, in discussing the gather
ing uproar, quotes the Committee
Chairman as pointing out that
tickets for President Grant’s
dancing party cost S2O, ‘‘so that
means there hasn’t been too much
inflation,”’
But, if we are to credit re
ports of the day, tickets to the
Cleveland Inaugural Ball, sixteen
years after the Grant festivities,
cost five dollars and admitted
¢¢two ladies and one gentleman,”’
And it might be noted that all
the 12,000 tickets printed were
sold.
The 30,000 invitations to the
LBJ cantico, according to Miss
La Hay, are expected to produce
about 20,000 cash sales.
Further, it might be mention
ed that the Capital is reacting
much more calmly to the Presi
dent’s announcement that he will
be inaugurated in a black busi
ness suit instead of a cutaway
than it did a few years back to
Ike’s refusal to wear a silk
hat on a similar occasion. But
the Ball Chairman, when asked
if there would be square dancing,
is said to have snorted: ‘‘What
do you want? The first white
tie hoe-down in history ?*’
iMoo
YOU WOULD THINK THE NA
TION SHOULD BE ABLE TO
ROCK ALONG for a year on a
mere SIOO billion of spending
money. And President Johnson
is reported whittling away on the
spending estimates (even during
his Christmas visit to the ranch)
to bring SIOB billion requested
by the Government agencies for
existing programs down to the
rounder and less painful figure.
But it will take more effort
than turning out superfluous
lights in the White House. In
fact, budget-wise old Washington
hands are expecting it will take
all the legerdemain - shifting of
spending from the new budget to
the old, or to revolving trust
funds; underestimating costs es
pecially on programs Congress
wants, applying unused balances
instead of asking new money -
and disappearing acts the experts
know,
Wwhatever the surface figure,
however, nourishment for the
«“«Great Society’’ is going to be
right in there.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
SuNDAY SCHOOL
THE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS
(TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading: Matthew
3:13-17.
Memory Selection: You shall
worship the Lord your God and
him only shall you serve, Matt
hew 4:10,
Intermediate-Sensor Toplc:
Meeting Life’s Temptations
(Temperance)
Young People - Adult Topic:
Victory Over Temptation (Tem=
perance)
The Gospel of Matthew em=-
phasizes the kingship of Christ.
Jesus came into the world to
establish a kingdom. It would
be just as definitely a kingdom
as was the Roman Empire under
which the Jews in our Lord’s
day lived. Only this kingdom of
Jesus’ would be unseen, spiritual,
heavenly. As Jesus himself ex
pressed it, his kingdom was not
of this world (John 18:36),
We are members of a fallen
race living in a world which has
experienced the ravagesof man’s
fall. Jesus would establish a
kingdom in the hearts of men,
in the spirit of the world which
would someday be consummated
by the solid establishment upon
the earth of the heavenly king
dom.
Our Lord’s sojourn of thirty
odd years in the flesh was spent
for the most part preparing him
for kingship and saviourhood.
Before he could assume his hea
venly office among men Jesus
needed to be morally tested.
This test occurred in the ex
perience of temptation about
which we study today.
“Then was Jesus led up of
the spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted of the devil.”
Note that the spirit led Jesus.
Mark heightened both the severity
and the glory of Jesus’ experience
with the statement that ‘‘he was
with the wild beasts; and the
angels ministered unto him.”
Throughout the Bible—Old Tes=
tament as well as New—the verb
“to tempt” and the noun ‘‘temp=-
tation” involve the idea of test
ing or trial. The Greek word
used in this particular verse
means ‘‘to try’’ or ‘to prove.”
So much about the life of Jesus
astonished his generation and
continues to astonish us. His
contemporaries could not believe
that a man of no political, re
ligious, or social status could
be the promised Messiah. Even
the disciples found it impossible
at first to accept the idea that
the Saviour of the world must
suffer and die. They naturally
felt—and we undoubtedly would
have felt the same had we been
living at that time—that God’s
Messiah would be a radiant, over=-
whelming, celestial figure who
would burst in upon the life of
some generation and produce stu
pendous effects.
But Jesus, the incarnate Son
of God, grew up a humble man
in a humble home. When the
time came for him to go forth
on his mission he had to be
tested and proved before God
would commission him for his
great career.
Our lesson today deals with his
testing and proving.
Paul tells us that after he had
seen the Lord in a vision on
the road to Damascus he did not
go up to Jerusalem ‘to them
which were apostles before me;
but I went into Arabia, and re
turned again unto Damascus”
(Gal. 1:17-18), He may have
remained in Arabia for three
years becoming oriented to this
stupendous change of circum=-
stances in his religious ex
perience.
Another interesting biblical
situation which has a real bear=-
ing on the events we study today
was the temptation of Eve in
the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3).
The temptation of Eve and the
temptation of Jesus were simi
lar in that they were tempta
tions to accept for guidance
something other than the will
our Lord’s predecessors.
Jesus was evidently so en
grossed in thinking about the ex=
perience of baptism through
which he had just passed that
for forty days and forty nights
he was unaware of the necessity
for food. He had come up out
of the water after his baptism
by John and the Spirit had de
scended upon him in the form
of a dove. Furthermore, a voice
out of heaven had declared that
this was the beloved Son inwhom
God was well pleased (Matt. 3:13~
17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22;
John 3:22-24), These circum
stances and the divine announ=-
cement may have astonished
Jesus, or they may have beenthe
consummation of what he had
been expecting through the years.
At any rate, it was a profound
experience. He needed some
time for reflection in order to
adjust himself to a situation im=-
measurable in its significance.
Hence his sojourn in the wilder
ness.
Satan tempted Jesus to turn
the round stones (which no doubt
resembled loaves of bread) into
food which would appease his
hunger. The response of Jesus
was, ‘“Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of
God.”
The life which we all posses
is essentially spiritual innature,
This life is too great, to divine
a gift to be supported wholly
by anything external. The true
life needs divine food—the Bread
that came down from heaven.
One of the weaknesses that have
pursued mankind throughout its
too much emphasis on the physi
cal side of life and too little on
the spiritual side, Jesus em=
phasized the essentially spiri
tual character of life and
of God, Eve's temptation oc~
curred in a Garden lush with
everything pleasant to the eye
and delicious to the taste. Our
Lord’s temptation occurred in
a barren wilderness.
Jesus came to save man from
the sins into which he had fallen
through temptation. , To do this,
he himself had to be tempted.
And he was tempted on the human
side of his life—he was tempted
as a man.
«and when he had fasted forty
days and forty nights, he was
afterward an hungred. And when
the tempter came to him, he
said, If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be
made bread.””
something in the number forty
catches our attentionimmediate~
ly. The Israelites were forty
years in the wilderness being
tried and tested before they con
fronted the responsibility of con=
quering and occupying the Pro
mised Land. Moses was on the
Mount writing the words of the
Lord for forty days and forty
nights (Exod. 34:28), Elijah,
after his encounter with the
priests of Baal on Mount Car
mel, fled from the wrath of
Jezebel into the wilderness and
lay down and slept under a juni
per tree. Later he was com=-
manded by the angel to arise
and eat, ‘‘and he arose, and did
eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days
and forty nights unto Horeb the
mount of God”” (I Kings 19:1-8),
A forty-day period of spiritual
communion had occurred signifi
cantly in the lives of certain of
the necessity resting upon all of
us to feed and nourish that spiri
tual life. The appeasing of his
physical hunger on this occasion
appeared a quite natural and
necessary thing for him to do,
but the Saviour of the world
was determined not to employ
his supernatural powers at the
very beginning of his career to
satisfy his personal need, es
pecially not a physical need.
God had fed the Israelites with
manna while they lingered for
forty years in the wilderness.
He would also feed and sustain
his Son as he abode in the wild
erness for forty days and forty
nights.
SCIENCELY
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SCIENTISTS ORGANIZE
BUNNY SLUMBER PARTY
ANIMAL HYPNOSIS has human
overtones. Researchers at Jowa
State University believe their
animal hypnosis program will
help in understanding some brain
functions in man as well as beast.
The scientists hypnotize rabbits
by placing them on their backs
and holding them motionless for
a moment. The trance lasts
only for a minute, however, so
tranquilizers are administered
to produce longer and deeper
sleep. Tests show that animals
under hypnosis often have elec
trical brain patterns typical of
both sleep and wakefulness.
TWO TEMPLES south of the
Aswan Dam in Egypt, among that
nation’s biggest tourist attrac
tions, will be closed for two
years beginning next July. The
2,300-year-old stone structures
at Abu Simbel, now located in
an area that eventually will be
flooded when the dam is com
pleted, are scheduled to be cut,
moved and reassembled on high
ground.
HOSPITALS still suffer from
a severe shortage of nurses,
reports Chemetron Corporation.
A survey of U.,S, hospitals in
dicates we’re 100,000 nurses
short and the problem may be
come critical in the next five
years. U.S. medical authorities
say there should be at least
300 full-time professional nurses
for every 100,000 people.
OLYMPIC ATHLETES will be
in for a surprise when they get
to Mexico City for the 1968
games, says the American Medi
cal Association. The high al
titude will have virtually no effect
on sprinters, but long distance
runners will turn in considerably
slower performances than nor
mal because long runs require
a continuous and abundant supply
of oxygen. Tests show that the
reduced oxygen pressure in the
city’s rarefied atmosphere
causes slightly lowered oxygen
saturation in the arterial blood.
ROAD ROUGHNESS can be
measured by a new device built
by Pennsylvania State University
scientists. The ‘‘Roughometer,”
a flashy yellow trailer pulled
by a yellow van, records bumps
and depressions and total road
roughness on calibrated record=
ers. It can indicate when and
to what extent repairs are need
ed on highways and provide com=
parative data on which to base
future road designs.
SONIC BOOMS, pressure wav=
es created when an aircraft flies
at or above the speed of sound,
will be studied by the Federal
Aviation Agency in a series of
tests to be held at the White
Sands Missile Range in New Mex=
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It Pays To Advertise
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ATLANTA-The Georgla Gen=
eral Assembly convenes Monday,
January 11, for what is likely to
be one of the most tumultous
sessions in its long history,
The House faces the task, un
der a Federal court order, of
reapportioning itself, In order
to do so some of its members
must inevitably legislate them=
selves out of jobs, Naturally,
they are concerned with keeping
the casualty list at the lowest
possible level,
In addition, the coming sess~
son must pass the biennial ap=
propriations bill to finance state
government in 1965-66, Gover=
nor Carl E, Sanders is expected
to submit a budget of around
$1,200,000,000 for the two years,
or some $300,000,000 more than
last time,
Under legislation passed dur
ing the last year of the Ernest
Vandiver administration, the
General Assembly meets in a
““gplit session’ when it considers
the appropriations bill. This
means that the Assembly will
convene January 11, stay in sess=
ion for two weeks, then adjourn
for two weeks while the House
and Senate Appropriations Com=
mittees study the appropriations
bill, The Assembly will meet
again on the second Monday in
February to receive the com=-
mittee reports, and remain in
session until March 11,
*% ¥ %
Governor Sanders will start
the legislative machinery turn
ing next Tuesday whenhe appears
before a joint session of the House
and Senate to réad his ‘‘State of
the State’” message. This is ex=
pected to urge strong advances in
the fields of education, mental
health and child welfare,
This year’s Assembly will re
flect some radical changes in
House and Senate membership,
the result of the recent Novem
ber elections, For the first
time in memory there will be
nine Republicans in the Senate
and seven in the House, Also
the Senate will contain two Ne=-
groes, both from Fulton County.
In addition to Senator Leroy
Johnson, first elected in 1962,
there will be Senator Horace
Ward,
Two of the Senate Republicans
will be from DeKalb County,
which never before in post-
Reconstruction history has sent
a Republican to the Legislature.
Re-election of Rep. George
T, Smith of Grady County as
Speaker of the House is regarded
as a virtual certainty despite a
¢pehind-the-scenes’’ revolt a
gainst his leadership last year,
But the races for speaker pro
tem of the House, to fill the
vacancy left by the retirement
of Rep. Guy W, Rutland, Jr. of
DeKalb County because of ill
health, and president pro-tem
of the Senate are ‘“wide open’’,
Traditionally, these jobs are
filled by men suggested by the
governor, although actually they
are elected by the two chambers,
Governor Sanders has not yet
publicly indicated his choices.
*% % %
But by far the ‘““hottest’’ quest
ion before the present session
will be reapportionment of the
House to conform with a Federal
court order that its membership
be based primarily on population
rather than geography.
When and if a plan acceptable
to the Federal courts is approved,
special elections will be held
later in the year to choose mem=
bers of a revised House, who will
take their seats inJanuary, 1966.
Inevitably the large urban coun=
ties will have far more voting
strength than ever before.
The House will have before it
a plan drawn up by a Committee
on Reapportionment, headed by
Rep. George D. Busbee of
Dougherty County, which held
state-wide hearings about two
months ago.
Unless last-minute changes
are made in the plan, it will
provide for a House of 205 mem-=
bers--the present size-but with
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a vastly different allocation of
members, For example, Fulton
County would have 28 members
and DeKalb County 11 whereas
now each county has only three,
Groups of as many as three or
four of the smallest counties
would be combined into single
House districts,
The plan has strong. support
because it preserves at least
one Representative for a ma=-
jority of Georgia’s 159 counties,
Both Governor Sanders and
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the grounds that it would be
—
State Bank No. 64-227
REPORT OF CONbge'i NO’G TON
THE BANK OF C
OF COVINGTON
IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS
ON DECEMBER 31, 1964
" ASSETS
‘ Dollars Cts.
I. Cash, balances with other banks, and cash
items in process of collection 1,394,292.61
2. United States Government obligations, direct
and guaranteed 2,544 ,807.79
3. Obligations of States and political subdivi
sions 537,666.12
4. Other bonds, notes, and debentures (includ
ing $§ none securities of Federal agencies
and corporations not guaranteed by U.S.) none
5. Corporate stocks (including $ none stock
of Federal Reserve Bank) none
6. Loans and discounts (including $ none over
drafts) 2,935,958.49
7. Bank premises owned $ none, furniture and
fixtures 22,300.17
(Bank premises owned are subject to $
none liens not assumed by bank)
8. Real estate owned other than bank prem
ises none
9. Investments and other assets indirectly repre
senting bank premises or other real estate none
10. Customers' liability to this bank on accept
ances outstanding none
1. Other assets 29,877.66
12. TOTAL ASSETS 7,464,902.84
LIABILITIES
13. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations 3,683,135.75
14. Time and savings deposits of individuals,
partnerships, and corporations 2,122,022.17
15. Deposits of United States Government (In
cluding postal savings) 73,708.79
16. Deposits of States and political subdivision 795,083.56
17. Deposits of banks none
18. Certified and officers' checks, etc. 17,352.12
19. TOTAL DEPOSITS $6,691,302.39
(a) Total demand deposits $4,425,578.69
(b) Total time and savings
deposits $2,265,723.70
20. Mortgages or other liens $ none on bank
premises and $ none on other real estate none
21. Rediscounts and other liabilities for borrow
ed money none
22. Acceptances executed by or for account of
#hi¢ bank and outstanding . none
23. Other liabilities® du: sls bonwe s meig 1~:95,928.35
24. TOTAL LIABILITIES 6,787,230.74
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
25. Capital:
(a) Common stock, total par value $200,000.00
(b) Preferred stock, total par value $ none,
total retirable value $§ none 200,000.00
(c) Capital notes and debentures $ none
26. Surplus 400,000.00
27. Undivided Profits 77,672.10
28. Reserves (and retirement account for pre
ferred capital) none
29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 677,672.10
30. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL AC
COUNTS 7.464,902.84
I, J. B. Weaver, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do
solemnly swear that this report of condition is true and cor
rect, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Correct—Attest: J. B. WEAVER
DIRECTORS
R. R. FOWLER
E. G. TRAMMELL
S. A. GINN
State of Georgia, County of Newton, ss:
Sworn so and subscribed before me this sth day of Janu
ary, 1965, and | hereby certify that | am not an officer or
director of this bank.
My commission expires Jan. 6, 1968
Elizabeth S. Rogers, Notary Public.
oS s T S B A AN eTS 0 R OSSR S RTINS PR OO
Thursday, January 7, 1065
more efficient, But informed
opinion around the Capitol is
that no plan for cutting House
membership below the present
205 would have any chance of
passage,
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