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The week of October 3 through October 9 will
be observed as National Employ the Handicapped
Week. Tiie Griffin Office of the Georgia State
Employment of Service is co-operating with other
local, state, and national agencies in emphasizing
the role of handicapped applicants in our economy.
One out of every 10 Americans is handicapped.
Their disabilities range from imperceptible defects
to more serious disorders which limit their
activity. Many of these people are successfully
employed and are leading happy useful lives.
Our concern is for those who are able to work
but can find no gainful employment. Handicapped
If any American institution is entitled to sing
its own praises—all questions of false modesty
aside—it is the American newspaper. And Nat
ional Newspaper Week, which is to be observed
October 10 through 16, provides that opportunity.
There is nothing quite like the U. S. press.
In many countries, the newspapers are propaganda
organs of government and willingly or unwillingly
abide by file wishes and orders of those in pol
itical power. In others, a few papers of vast
circulation blanket their countries, and there is
little exchange of varying views. In others,
corruption and venality have destroyed the pub
lic’s faith in the worth and honor of its press.
You Moy Win European Trip
With Press Travel Group
All readers of this newspaper
will have an opportunity to win
two all-expense tours of Europe
next summer. This is a special
feature of the Georgia Press
International Goodwill Tours
which will probably include more
than 200 leaders from all parts
of the state next year.
Anyone interested in foreign
travel can inquire about these
exceptional tours, and the many
unique attractions they liave, and
all those writing for detailed in
formation will be registered for
the statewide drawing of free
trips.
As previously announced by
Graham Ponder, president of the
Georgia Press Association, these
unusual tours will be available
on four different departure dates
during 1966-April 25, June 6,
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FOR GEORGIA CONSUMERS
Q. My three-year-old son
wants to dress himself. What
type clothes should I buy to
help him?
A. You are fortunate to have
a young child who wants to be
independent. Buy clothes for him
that are easy to manage. Buy
slipover shirts. Buy pants with
elastic tops. You may need to
mark the front with a colored
thread.
Q. I bought the nearly square
toe shoes for my young child
but he gets the shoe for each
foot confused. How can I help
him?
A. Buy two colors of finger
nail polish and put a dot of one
color on his right toe nail and
the same color dot on the toe
of his right shoe. Do the same
in another color for the left shoe
- ad toe. He can match colors on
shoes to colors on toes.
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Somewhere along the line, in the growth of the
United States, many of our cities and their citizens
grew away from natural beauty and its need to feed
the soul of man. The price for this neglect of land
and beauty has been more than ugliness. It has. we
believe, projected an emptiness upon many urban
residents, despite the immense but sterile structures
of steel and concrete and pavements built for human ,
work and movment. ;
Cities can be made beautiful but not if they are <
planned solely for bigger and better artificial struc
tures rather than even a modicum of natural beauty.
Not when parks and plantings are few and banks of i
streams are ugly trash heaps, or slums. Almost sole
reliance on bigger and better man-made structures
compounds the errors of the past. i
Why not let in more sun, more God-made natural
beauty? More open space, where people can see trees
and plants and color? Is any city today so happy and
k wise and beautiful that natural beauty is unneces
sary?
Does everv last foot of land have to be covered 1
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Employ Handicap Week Underway
National Newspaper Week
July 11 and September 19. There 1
are four different itineraries
which can be taken on any of
these four dates.
Transportation for all of these
tours is being provided by Alitalia
Air Lines , and only jet planes
will be used on ajl these trips.
The hotel and land accofti
modations all along the way will
be first class or luxury rating.
Among the larger cities on
these itineraries are London,
Paris, Amsterdam, Lucerne,
Rome, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon,
Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem, Tel
avlv, New Delhi, Bangkok, Hong
Kong, Kyoto, Tokyo, Honolulu and
many others.
WITH ATTENTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures, and Features)
people as a rule are loyal, enthusiastic workers
who do their assigned tasks well. They are anxious
and willing to train for available jobs. We are
not making fanciful statements about these de
serving people but we are stating facts which
may be verified by available statistics.
Our state is enjoying a period of high employ
ment and as experienced and trained workers be
come less available it is desirable to give con
sideration to those who have disabilities which
do not lessen their ability to work. You will be
rendering a service to your community by placing
a handicapped person in a job that will enable
him to be a contributing member to our economic
environment.
Here, however, the newspaper, with few except
ions, has been faithful to its trust. It has stood
for that in which it believes, regardless of the
shifting winds of politics and of the pressures
of power. It stands, however difficult it may be
at times, for the freedom of the press and of the
right to defend and advocate policies and phil
osophies it considers vital to the public interest.
We have, of course, newspapers of great cir
culation and international prestige. And we also
have—of the utmost importance—thousands of
smaller newspapers, weeklies and dailies, which
serve their communities and their audience in a
way nothing else can. These are, each in its
own independent way, guardians of a free United
States.
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MARY SESSIONS MALLARD =
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at Covington, Georgia, as Z
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Red Carpet receptions will be
provided at many points along
the way, with special govern
ment representatives meeting the
various groups and giving them
an inside view of those locations.
Many readers here in Georgia
have expressed enthusiasm about
these plans, including Governor
Carl E. Sanders. He said, in
part; “The idea of these good
will tours is one of the best
that I have seen, and I hope
that other public spirited organi
zations will follow the lead of
our Georgia Press. . .”
More details on these tours
will be available in future issues
of this newspaper, or can be had
by writing to DuPree Jordan,
Jr., Georgia Press International
Goodwill Tours, c/o Georgia
Press Association, 24 Ivy street,
S. E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
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with pavement? If we continue our present course, Z
with unlimited expansion of paved areas, the United z
States in urban and even many suburban areas can Z
become a desert despite adequate rainfall. The “
rains largely will run into the sewers to the sea and
not sink into the land. Ground water levels already
are perilously low in many areas.
But what of the future when ever-enlarged areas
are paved? Will we merely build bigger and better
catch-basins?
As a matter of survival, our cities and their sub
urbs will have to face the problem of beautified,
planted, open spaces. Tree and shrub and grass
areas conserve the soil and water, give something
on which to feed the soul. Every citizen who land
scapes and cares for his land is making a contribu
tion to the general welfare, as well as his own fam
ily’s enjoyment.
But what about local governments? In urban and
suburban communities particularly, landscaped
areas are vital to progress, lest man become as ugly
as the communities in which natural beauty has
been neglected.
Ugly natures spring from ugly environments.
Without natural beauty the good spirit of man could
perish.
(H R WEEKLY LESSON FOR^
- Sunday School
JETHRO
Devotional Reading: Proverbs
22:17-25.
Memory Selection: He who
walks with wise men becomes
wise. Proverbs 13:20.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Jethro: Exerting Helpful In
fluence.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Jethro: Exerting Helpful In
fluence.
We pass over a good deal of
Bible history from Joseph to
Jethro in our series for this
quarter on character studies or
"Old Testament Biographies.’’
Jethro comes into the history
of God’s revelation through his
relationship of father-in-law to
Moses, who is undoubtedly one
of the greatest characters of Old
Testament history, and in fact
of all time. The Hebrew people
have always looked upon Moses
as the one who established their
religious faith, the man through
whom God revealed his law to the
chosen people and to the world.
After Moses had been trained
for forty years in the science and
learning of the most highly civil
ized nation in the world, he had
to flee from Egypt as a mur
derer. It took forty years of
further schooling in the wilder
ness to overcome his hot temper
and to give Moses the strength,
meekness, and forbearance re
quired to lead the nation out of
slavery and train the people for (
their destiny as the nation through
whom the Saviour of the world
should appear.
When Moses first took the
part of his people in Egypt not
only was he in need of a long
period of training, but the people
were by no means ready for
emancipation.
God was slowly working out
his purpose, but It was a tre
mendous task that was assigned
to Moses. He was to take a
race beaten down by centuries of
slavery and form them into an
ordered society and a military
force that could overcome
superior strength of arms and
establish a nation.
Moses stands far above the or
dinary character in many phases
of leadership. He was a genius
as the founder of a religion,
giver of divine laws, statesman,
author, military leader, social
organizer, and man of God. This
monumental character is the
background of our lesson about
Jethro.
In our study the children of
Israel after their deliverance
from slavery In Egypt have now
reached a point of great interest
in their journey toward the Pro
mised Land. They are at the
place where Moses spent forty
years as a shepherd and saw the
vision of the burning bush, which
sent him back as the deliverer
of the Hebrew people. They are
near the Mount where God is to
reveal his law.
News travels across the desert
to the effect that this Moses, who
had so long herded the sheep of
Jethro, Is now the leader of a
great nation that has ccftne from
Egypt, and their encampment
covers miles of the wilderness
beneath Mount Sinai. Jethro
decides to take the wife and
two sons of Moses and visit the
great leader. The wife with two
boys had probably been sent back
to her father’s house when Moses
returned to Egypt to deliver his
people (Exod. 4:24-26).
Jethro was a Midlanlte, a mem
ber of a bedouin or nomadic tribe
located in the southeastern por
tion of the Sinai peninsula near
the Gulf of Akaba. They were
named after , and possibly de
scended from, a son of the pat
riarch Abraham by his wife Kat
urah. So Jethro might also trace
his descent to Abraham and had
knowledge of the one true God.
It was just after the defeat
of Amalek that Jethro appeared.
Strife and battle were thus super
seded by goodwill and the visit
of relatives with the sound coun
sel and wisdom of the patriarch
in whose household Moses had
lived for some four decades.
In the early verses of the
chapter before our printed text
we learn that Jethro, who Is
termed “the priest of Midian,”
heard of the great events
connected with the delivery of the
Hebrew nation and their march
through the desert. Now he takes
the wife and sons of Moses to
restore them to the great leader
and learn personally all that God
had wrought for his people.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
We usually see Moses standing
before God or before the people,
but here we catch a glimpse of
his family life.
Wives of great pioneers like
Moses and David Livingstone may
be called upon to endure separa
tion and loneliness and may have
to make many family decisions
without the father. We learn
here that Moses had sent his
wife and chidren away. Most
commentators feel this event took
place at the time of the strange
Incident when Moses was near
death and Zipporah circumcised
her younger son with a flint knife,
probably feeling that Moses’ ill
ness might have been caused by
the failure to perform this rite.
Some have suggested, however,
that the family could have been
sent ahead to the paternal house
hold after the people had crossed
the Red Sea. In any case they
are now reunited. When the
two boys were born early in
the life of Moses in the Sinai
wilderness with Jethro they had
been named Gershom, meaning
“a stranger or sojourner here,”
and Eliezer, meaning “God my
help,” in memory of Moses’
escape from Egypt when he came
to Midian.
The Church of Christ is built
upon family units, and he who
was the leader of the people
of God is now restored to family
relationship with wife and child
ren.
In early times the head of a
Report To The People Os Georgia
BY GOV. CARL E. SANDERS
Henry Grady, Georgia’s great
newspaper editor and our State’s
leading spokesman of the late
1800’s, envisioned a new South...
a South which would be “the
home of fifty millions of people...
cities as vast hives of industry
and thrift. . .valleys tranquil in
the white and gold of the har
vest. . .her wealth diffused.”
We now see the maturing of
Henry Grady’s new South. . .a
South not dependent upon cotton
or any other crop as its only
source of income. . .or just
upon agriculture alone. Today
we are a South of economic
diversity, of thriving industry,
of expanding businesses, and of
prosperous farms.
Georgia is a leader in this
New South.
And, we stand on the threshold
of an ever more bountiful
future.. .
Our cities, towns and country
side are more prosperous than
every before.
Georgia’s industrial develop
ment has brought a thriving ec
onomy to the State. It has
brought more jobs for our people,
so that unemployment has almost
reached an all-time low. It has
brought a growth in a personal
income. It has brought increased
revenues to finance better
schools, highways and roads,
health facilities, and other vital
governmental services.
But while we are thinking of
our industrial growth, we should
also remember the contribution
the farmer has made to our
growing economy and the role
he has played In the develop
ment of our State.
In 1964, the sale of Georgia
farm products topped the $905-
million dollar mark, a record
high for Georgia. . .and Georgia
ranked fifteenth among the fifty’
states of the Nation in cash farm
receipts.
Georgia, last year, led the
Nation in the sale of forest pro
ducts.
Georgia was Number One in
the Nation last year in the pro
duction of peanuts and broilers.
We ranked second in the Nation
In the production of eggs. And,
we were sixth in the production
of tobacco. . .while Georgia’s
91,000 farms provided jobs for
44,000 hired farm workers.
Our farmers have long realized
the advantages of working to
gether. In Georgia’s frontier
days, farmers helped with barn
raisings and gathering crops.
Later, farmers began to join
together in cooperative organi
zations to realize a greater pro
fit from their labor.
They have joined together In
agricultural co-ops to secure
goods and services and to market
agricultural products.
A JUMP AHEAD
The plight of the long-studying
Graduate student who takes odd
jobs to work his way through
school is often heard. One Ph.D.
student who graduates from
Emory University this August
had in innate asset to help him
through the 13 years It took
for him. Persistence came nat
urally to William Larkin Power,
who goes by the name Will Power.
EMORY MUSEUM
IS ATLANTA
ATTRACTION
An increasing number of out
of-town visitors to Atlanta stop
at the Emory University Museum.
Museum visitors in the last sc
hool year totaled 22,000. Among
new accessions the museum re
ceived during a year were a
collection of 33 ancient lamps,
a 2500 year old pottery jug from
off the coast of Caesarea and a
collection of seven original lea
ves of ancient Bibles.
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clan acted as priest, and Jethro
must have performed this funct
ion. The priesthood under Aaron
and his family was soon to be
established, but it was not yet
in effect.
The name "Jethro” means
"excellence” or "preemin
ence.” Jethro was indeed a noble,
pious, and loving man of fine
judgment and wisdom. Moses,
who was under the special guid
ance of God and who in every
case received an answer from
God, did not disdain to receive
and act upon the counsel and ad
vice of this close relative.
There is little doubt that it
had been difficult for Jethro to
understand why Moses had left,
breaking up his domestic
relations and returning his wife
and sons to their paternal home
in no happy mood. But now
Jethro could see the whole pic
ture in proper perspective and
had come to rejoice and con
gratulate Moses and the people.
Moses was no longer Jethro’s
shepherd but God’s shepherd of
a mighty flock.
News is brought to Moses of
the approach of his family, and
he goes out to meet them in the
best tradition of the courtesy and
culture of that part of the world.
Moses bowed to his elder and
kissed him, then they go through
the usual lengthy and complimen
tary Inquiry concerning the health
and condition of the other, and
after this they go into Moses’
tent to continue their conver
sation.
"The mount of God” men
tioned in verse 5 is Horeb or
Sinai, two names for the same
mountain, or it may be that
Horeb is the name of the range
and Sinai the name of the part
icular peak. This became "the
Mountain of God.”
In recognition of the contri
bution co-ops have made to the
welfare of Georgia and to the
development of our democratic
free enterprise system, I have
proclaimed the month of October
to be Co-op Month in Georgia.
Therefore, I believe that It is
particularly timely to pause at
this time and thank the farmer
for his contribution to the
economic progress of our state
and for his invaluable influence
in the development of our system
government.
‘BAA!’ SAY SHEEP
TO NEW BEDPADS
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SHEEPSKINS may become
standard hospital equipment.
Shearlings, which are sheepskins
with the wool trimmed but not
removed, may be used to pre
vent bedsores thanks to a new
tanning process developed by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Prior to its development, use
of shearling bedpads had been
limited because of the special
care required In laundering them.
A HIGH-MELTING synthetic
Industrial wax Is now produced
by Chemetron Chemicals, Chic
ago. It is designed for the
plastics and allied fields where
its Internal and external lubric
ating properties make it use
ful in resins and plastics app
lications where mold release,
anti-tack, anti-block and lust
rous finish are desired. The
new wax has additional uses in
lacquers, varnishes and enamels.
DON’T BE LULLED into a
false sense of security because
of the overwhelming success of
Salk and Sabin vaccines In con
trolling polio, cautions the Amer
ican Medical Association. These
vaccines have not eradicated the
viruses which cause this paraly
zing disease; they only trigger
the body’s defenses to buUd up
antibodies that can combat the
viruses. All persons who have
not been properly Immunized
against polio are still vulner
able.
THE NUMBER of active civil
aircraft Is expected to reach
107,000 by 1969, predicts the
Federal Aviation agency. There
were 90,935 of this type air
craft on FAA rolls at the close
of 1964. The ten states lead
ing in number of active civil
aircraft for 1964 were, in order,
California, Texas, Illinois, New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Florida,
Pennsylvania, Kansas and Ind
iana. Those states accounted
for 51.2 per cent of the air
craft total and, coincidentally,
also have 51.2 per cent of the
U. S. population.
SWIMMING SALMON are hav
ing their noses counted by sonar
in Alaska. The simplified, rel
atively Inexpensive sonar system
was developed and successfully
tested to help the state’s Fish
and Game department regulate
salmon fishing. Sonar was dis
covered to be the best means
of counting the fish as they swam
upstream to spawn.
IF THE U. S. switches to
the metric system, as strongly
advocated by many science and
industry leaders, American men
will have to stop thinking of the
ideal woman in terms of
36-24-36. 91-52-91, anyone?
Knowledge brings understand
ing, and understanding brings
strength to deal with the new and
the unknown.
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By: Rev. Sydney Whiteman
Pastor
North Covington Methodist
Church
One of the hardest lessons for
us to learn, and one that we
seldom think of after we have
learned it, is found in the Bible
in the Book of Galations, Chap
ter 6, verse 7. "Be not dec
eived; God is not mocked; for
whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap.”
This was brought back to me
very vividly recently when one
evening the phone rang and a
friend of mine was on the other
end of the line. He wanted me
to visit one of his employees
who was locked up in the county
jail. He had a personal interest
in this young man and wanted
to help him if possible. He
thought that the boy needed spir
itual help more than anything
else at this time. I agreed to
visit him that night in the com
pany of my friend. We were
ushered into a small room hardly
big enough for three people to
be in and I listened awhile to my
friend talk to the boy and than
I asked him if he would mind
letting me talk to him alone.
I asked the young man what
plans he had for his life. He
shrugged and said “none.” I
asked him where he thought the
road he was on would lead him
to? Again he shrugged and said,
Laym Glenn
Says..
We are justly proud of our
Georgia leadership in making
historical things. We are proud
to name our Georgia firsts ...
first state university, first char
tered college in the world for
women, etc.
But, how ashamed we are, or
should be, to see our Capitol
city overwhelmed by a tide of
illicit whiskey! Our combined
issue of the Constitution and
Journal on Labor Day printed on
the center of the first page the
staggering statement that the
weekly consumption of the death
dealing stuff is 30,000 gallons!
If we add to that the unknown
quantity of legitimized booze,
it would give the city enough
to swim in!
One of Georgia’s firsts was to
lead in driving the deathly tide
from our state, beginning with
little Rockdale County, about the
smallest in our nation, by local
option, our country adopted pro
hibition; and for years it was
illegal to buy or sell the stuff.
Then those who opposed that
Newspapers And Readers Share
Partnership, Says GPA President
The newspaper business Is one
of the largest and most important
in the nation’s business economy
today and its continuous growth is
one of the great success stories
of history, Graham Ponder, pub
lisher of The Madisonian and
president of the Georgia Press
Association, stated In an an
nouncement calling attention to
National Newspaper Week being
observed this year, October 10
through 16.
The Week was Inaugurated 26
years ago to explain the role of
newspapers in American life and
this year has broadened into a
year-around program of educa
tion and information sponsored by
the Newspaper Public Informa
tion Committee of Newspaper
Association Managers, repre
senting 10,000 newspapers in the
United States with over 80 million
circulation.
“The information program,”
explained Ponder, is designed
to bring newspapers and their
readers closer together and to
point out to readers the part
nership between them and their
newspapers. Readers need news
papers, and newspapers need
readers. In a very true sense,
they are partners in freedom.’’
Newspapers, he added, have
successfully withstood two for
midable competitors in the past
40 years—radio and television.
Each would be the doom of news
papers, it was predicted, but in
stead newspapers have emerged
stronger and with greater vital
ity, more readers, more adver
tisers and greater service to the
public than ever before.
Newspaper publishing today
ranks high among the nation’s
manufacturing industries, ac
counting for 1.53% of the nation
al industrial output. This com
pares with 1.82% for the auto
industry, 1.52% for all metal pro
ducts, and 1.48% for drugs and
medicines.
Circulation of daily newspa
pers last year hit an all-time
high of 60,412,266, a gain of
1,500,000 over the year before.
Weekly newspapers jumped to a
record 25,036,031 —an increase
of 1,000,000! Consumption of
newsprint was the highest ever
—8,000,000 tons—an average of
five pounds of newsprint a week
for every newspaper reading
family.
Newspaper employment since
1947 has grown three-and-a-half
times faster than all manufactur
ing and there are 330,000 persons
on daily newspaper payrolls alone
today.
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“No where.” Yes it will, I
told him, but you won’t like it
when you get there. I asked
him if he liked for his poor
Mother to visit him in jail, or
have his friends talk about him
the way they were doing, or any
thing about his present way of
life. He admitted he didn’t.
I quoted the above scripture to
him and asked him if he didn’t
realize that he was reaping the
fruit of the seeds that he had
sown, that if he continued his
present way of life all he could
expect was more of the same.
That he couldn’t reap good fruit
from evil seed. The Law of the
Harvest doesn’t work that way.
He acknowledged that he was and
said, “This is the first time I
have ever thought of it that way.”
Isn’t it true that we seldom
stop and really think about the
seeds we are sowing in our
daily life? Do we really start
the day out each morning with
the idea of sowing nothing but
seeds of kindness, love, good
ness, charity, and righteous
ness? Someone once said that
we may be the only Bible that
some people ever see and cert
ainly we should make it one that
is attractive so that it will glor
ify our Heavenly Father. Life
on earth is so short compared
to eternity, and we can ill afford
the luxury of sowing seeds of
discord, and strife among our
selves.
law, complained that prohibition
was a failure; that bootleggers
could not be prevented from mak
ing and selling It; and because
the law was not successfully en
forced, it ought to be repealed!
Strange that argument! The
law against murder has /never
been successfully enforced, but
nobody has ever proposed elim
inating It from the book. The
same thing can be said of the
laws against robbery, rape and
every other crime.
Only the law against selling
liquor was abolished because it
was not enforced, and this not
withstanding the fact that the
use of some form of alcohol
is the cause of, at least,. 50%
pf all other crimes, andthe cause
of the horrible death rate on our
highways.
Georgia has led In many glor
ious things. Why can’t she lead
in the fight against this evil
that touches every family in our
state, and put a stop to the
production and sale of the stuff?
Journalism school enrollment
nationally Is up to 15,820 —high-
est since 1948—indicating a solid
faith in the future of newspapers
on the part of young people.
Still another Index of the viril
ity of the business, and the con
fidence of their owners in the
future, is the continued invest
ment of publishers in new plants
and equipment at the rate of
$100,000,000 a year.
Every newspaper is built on
solvency. Newspapers must be
self-supporting. They receive
no grants, no government sub
sidies. Their economic inde
pendence is essential to the pre
servation of a free press In an
open and free society.
“As long as the press is free,”
concluded Ponder, “the people
will know what’s going on in their
free society, and what’s going
on in their government. This
makes newspapers become part
ners in freedom with their read
ers. Newspapers, like people,
are not perfect, but their at
tention to the public’s business
is the public’s best insurance
against government inefficiency
and wrongdoing.”
Mayor Harris
Proclaims Local
Pharmacy Week
Covington Mayor Walker Har
ris signed the following proc
lamation at City Hall, Friday,
October 1:
WHEREAS, the week of Oct
ober 3-9 is being observed as
National Pharmacy Week under
the auspices of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, the
national professional society of
pharmacists, and the Georgia
Pharmaceutical Association, the
state society, and
WHEREAS, pharmacists are
essential members of the team
of professional persons who ad
minister to the health needs of
our people; and
WHEREAS, pharmacists pro
vide their services on a high
professional plane that has acc
orded them the respect and con
fidence of the public,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Walker
Harris, Mayor of the City of
Covington, Ga., do hereby pro
claim the week of October 3-9,
1965, as National Pharmacy Week
in our community. I salute our
pharmacists upon the contribut
ions they make to better comm
unity health.
Thursday, October 7, 1965