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| THE COVINGTON NEWS j
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E OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
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3 CITY OF COVINGTON
Covington Rotary Club rendered an outstanding
service to Newton County on Tuesday evening when
they paid tribute to the Top Ten percent of Newton
High School’s Senior Class, and signally honored
them at a banquet at Ficquett Cafetorium.
High scholastic achievement, in recent years,
has too often been over-shadowed by extra cur
ricular activities, which are also important in
the development of a well-rounded educational
program. All play and no, (or "just enough
to get by on”), work can as surely render "Jack
a dull boy”, as the adage in reverse. We, some-
"Unto The Least Os These Unto Me” !”
It is a pathetic thing to see so many people
in wheel chairs, on crutches and suffering from
defects they have had since birth. A life time
of misery and not being able to participate in
various activities like other people.
However, to see a little child paralized from
it’s waist down; unable to use it’s limbs; some
times unable to talk, and maimed in many other
ways. Is there an answer, a ray of hope for adults
or children? Sure! That is where your EASTER
SEAL SOCIETY comes in. What can they do, you
say? For grown ups they furnish wheel chairs,
crutches, bed lifts etc., as they do for crippled
children. Os course this is where the families
are not able to buy these things.
Then, there are centers in Atlanta, Augusta,
Albany and other places where children may go
and stay for treatment daily. They have worked
wonders for them, making their lives and limbs
That is the title of an article In the January 24
issue of U. S. News & World Report. It is ac
companied by a full-page chart which makes in
formative, and woeful, reading.
Assume thrt the 1955 dollar was worth 100 cents.
On that basis, your present food dollar has lost 15
cents in value; your rent dollar 13 cents; your
home-building dollar 20 cents; your college-cost
dollar 24 cents; your auto repair dollar 20 cents.
So it goes, down the list of the things we use and
buy.
FIRST
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HOLY WEEK SERVICES
' 7:30 P.M.
Sunday, April 3 Through Friday, April 8
; HEAR
Dr. Warren Candler Budd
District Superintendent of the
Atlanta-Marietta District of
The Methodist Church
Former pastor of the Glenn Memorial
and Northside Methodist Churches
of Atlanta.
Special Music Each Evening
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Rotary’s Top Ten Banquet
Your Dollar’s Value
"How Real Is Inflation In The U.S.?”
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times lose sight of the fact that training the mind
requires paramount effort, stamina and character;
and fail to place proper emphasis and honor upon
academic accomplishments.
It was a heart-warming occasion to see the twenty
Top Tens of the Class of 1966 receive the honor
they so richly deserved.
We heartily congratulate them, and Covington
Rotarians for recognizing the fine scholastic
attainments of Newton County’s youth.
normal sometimes. They are with other children
in the same condition. They have physical therapy
treatments. They learn to swim and take active
parts in many things, until mast of them come
home ready to enter our local schools.
We are telling you this because we have just
reached about half of our quota for Newton County.
Many of you received letters asking for funds.
Hundreds of you did not. Will you send a check
today to Mr. C. G. Henderson at the Bank of
Covington?
Maybe we do not have a deformed child, or
crippled adult we cannot care for, and therefore
it is important that we send our check to help
our neighbor, for He said "Unto the least of
these, unto me.” Think that over prayerfully
and let us have your check at once please I Newton
Countians cannot fail! We never have when it
came to pathetic cases like these.
And in all, the magazine says, your cost of living
dollar has lost 15 cents in its buying power over a
mere 10-year period. It doesn’t take an expert in
higher mathematics to figure out what will happen if
that trend continues—or, worse, accelerates.
And accelerate it undoubtedly will if the creation
of hugh deficits continues. The big domestic ques
tion now is whether or not Congress will take steps
to protest what is left of your dollar’s value, by
really applying a heavy blue pencil to nonessential
spending.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
/Ol'R WEEKLY LESSON EOB^
■ Sunday School
THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH
Devotional Reading: Ephesians
6:10-20.
Memory Selection: Go there
fore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them In the
name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all that I have
commanded you; and 10, I am with
you always, to the close of the
age. Matthew 28:19-20.
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
The Church Has a Task.
Young People-Adult Topic:
What Is the Church’s Mission?
The Church Is a divinely or-
dained establishment—if we may
call it so—whereby God works
his will among the lives of men.
The Church Is by no means per
fect. Its servants are Imperfect;
therefore they cannot bring forth
perfect results. Man Is constant
ly seeking for new truth. All that
we need to know for our salvation
and guidance is given us in the Old
and New Testaments, and as we
pray and ponder, bringing our
problems to God each day, we
have a vast Increase of know
ledge, a new revelation, as it
were, lighting up the semidark
ness of our minds and souls.
Those of us who belong to a
church and share its projects and
fellowship are no doubt filled with
a sense of privilege and joy. We
know how Inadequately we mea
sure up to God’s high standards.
But what God is interested in is
not so much what we achieve as
what we try to achieve.
Our attitude toward sin and the
world, on the one hand, and our
attitude toward God and his eter
nal purposes, on the other, con
stitute a balance sheet which the
loving God peruses either to his
pleasure or his displeasure.
The outstanding concept of the
Church is, of course, that the
Church is the body of Christ.
The Church is the body, and we
are the members thereof. Our
hands are dedicated to Christ’s
work, our feet to the carrying of
his message, our eyes to the sur
vey of world needs and the glory
of heaven by which remedy and
cure are promised. Our lips are
dedicated to God that we may
testify in his behalf. Our ears
must be open to the world’s cries
of anguish and to the new and
added knowledge which comes to
us in the everyday living of the
Christian life.
Did Paul ever see Jesus in the
flesh? We do not know. He may
have heard him speak and have
observed some of his miracles.
On the other hand, he may have
known only the disciples who af
ter the crucifixion, resurrection,
and ascension were dedicated to
the carrying-on of the Lord’s
work.
"Even though we have known
Christ after the flesh”—and even
though you may have known him—
"yet now henceforth know we him
no more.” The flesh of Christ
was changed In the resurrection.
His new and spiritualized body
ascended into heaven. It is this
heavenly Christ who is both in
heaven and here upon the earth,
said Paul, to whom I dedicate my
life.
The most Important and In
spiring truth Is that Christ Is both
in heaven and on the earth. He
left his disciples with the promise
that hewouldbe with them always, in Christ, he is a newcreature.”
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Hi! Folks! I’m glad to be
back home in Georgia once more,
and I want you to know that the
best part of a trip is getting
back home!
Later, if you will let me, I’ll
write some things about the trip,
but this is just to tell you ‘‘How
d’y!” and that Georgia is the'
best place on God’s green earth
according to my notion.
When our Pan-Am plane made
its smooth descent, and almost
without a jolt, taxied to a full
stop, shut off the sign, "Fasten
Your Seat Belt”, I breathed a
silent prayer of thanks to the
Lord, and thanked Him for "Pan-
Am” and safetv.
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FORGOTTEN GOD
Rev. O. L. McCullough
Oxford Baptist Church
We are proud to call our
selves a Godly nation. We can
point to our coinage with pride,
"In God We Trust.” We pledge
to our flag, "one nation, under
God”. Even our constitution
refers to the creation of God.
We are greatly disturbed when
someone would advocate that God
is dead. People in every walk
of life, churchmember, non
churchmember alike, are up in
arms over the God is deadi con
troversy. Yet in reality we are
a nation that has forgotten God.
Before you say, “Whew! An
other controversy,” hear me out.
Long ago Jeremiah, the
prophet, spoke words of God to
his people like this, “Can a maid
forget her ornaments, or a bride
her attire? Yet my people have
forgetten me days without num
ber.” (Jeremiah 2:32) In other
words these people considered
themselves God’s people but in
reality they had forgotten him.
How is this so? Well they had
Covington Kiwanis Club To
Receive "Outstanding Award”
Greeley Ellis, immediate past
president of the Covington Kiwan
is Club, has been notified that the
local civic organization has been
judged as the "Outstanding Club
of the Orange Section” in the State
of Georgia for the year 1965.
Past State President Ed Ham
mond made the announcement
and stated that the citation would
be given at the Georgia District
Convention of Kiwanis Interna
tional at Augusta in September.
Orange Section of competition
in Georgia Kiwanis includes all
clubs whose membership is in the
range of 45 to 70 members. The
Covington Club now has 68 active
members.
Mr. Ellis said the award the
club will receive this fall marks
the second time the club has won
that honor. The other was in
1959. The club is judged on its
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even unto the end of the world (or
age) (Matt. 28: 20).
Now this spiritual Christ en
ters Into the nature of man and
causes him to become "a new
creature” (or, as some transla
tions have it, "a new creation”).
"Old things are passed away; be
hold, all things are become new.”
This throughout the centuries
has been the phenomenon of
Christian grace which has as
tonished the world. Men who
were dead In sin, and women also,
have been changed, sometimes In
the twinkling of an eye, into new
creatures. The dishonest have
become honest, the wretchedly
immoral have become pure, the
sadistic have become kind, the
hateful have become living.
Christ does something to our
souls. Never let us forget this.
He Is our great Guide—but he Is
more than this. His life actually
comes into our life, mixes with
it, takes it over, becomes Its
motivating force. “If any man be
Before we reached the door
and our Wesley Woods Welcome
Committee, the TV represen
tative grabbed me and strung out
a tape recorder! So, before
I got home, you all knew I was
here! I guess I ought not to be
impatient with them for they
go to a lot of trouble and usually
do a good job! But for them,
you still would be wondering if
I were safe!
Thank the good Lord we are
again in touch. I hope all of
you are as well as I and keep
so, and live to be as old as I
am.
Greetings to all. Next week
we’ll talk some more.
failed to consider God’s law.
They had adjusted their lives
according to their own desires
Instead of regulating them ac
cording to God’s demands. They
had failed to pray. They had
gone days without number never
thanking or praising God. They
had failed to worship. Sabbath
after Sabbath had been neglected
as God’s day.
Now if we placed our society
into this context we would be
found wanting. For we ourselves
are a society that has forgotten
God days without number. The
moral tone is not regulated ac
cording to God’s demands and
desires. Prayer for many is
only a memory of mother’spray
ers. Worship on the Lord’s Day
has been by and far replaced by
pleasures and sporting events.
We ourselves are a nation that
has forgotten its God. And the
words of warning from the pro
phet will also apply to us. “For
this shall the earth mourn, and
the heavens above be black; be
cause I have spoken it. I have
purposed it and will not repent,
neither will I turn back from it.”
(Jeremiah 4:28).
record of all activities and in
cludes the reports turned in each
month by the committee chair
men. The final achievement re
port of the club for the year has
an Important bearing on the final
grading for the Orange Section
award.
Scout Week
Climaxed By
School Rites
Newton County’s 186 Girl
Scouts climaxed Girl Scout Week
with an impressive candlelight
ing program on Friday, March 11,
at the E. L. Ficquett School.
Mrs. Estelle Hopkins had super
vised the plans and preliminary
arrangements.
Brownie Scout Troops #343 and
823 had "set up’ the cafetorium.
Education, our topic for sev
eral weeks, takes the spotlight
from a different angle this week.
Let’s pause and praise the ef
forts of the young minds in our
high school who have made acad
emic achievement ranking them
in the top ten per cent of their
class for four years.
These young people have placed
the emphasis in the right place
during their high school career.
Yet, each one’s record reads
like "Who’s Who” in the school
life at Newton High. At the
Rotary "Top Ten” banquet Tues
day night a lady at our table
stated that "these young people
live a far fuller and more or
ganized life than our adult soc
iety.”
How true that statement was.
Today in our high school there
are more clubs, social organ
izations, academic and profes
sional groups functioning to help
round out and broaden the per
spective of our teen-age young
people than ever before. To
follow the daily schedule of an
active Top Ten high school sen
ior for one wedk would astound
most adults besides wearing them
out.
Yet, these young people, while
participating in the many activ
ities going on around them, have
reserved the necessary time to
devote to their academic studies.
They are proud of their achieve
ments of the mind at present,
not so much for the honor it
brings publicly, but for the inner
satisfaction to them and the
praise for outstanding achieve
ment from mother and dad.
Until recent years academic
efforts in high school went un-
Mrs. Goodwin Tuck led in group
singing of favorite rounds and
songs.
The dignified flag ceremony
was led by Junior Troop #145.
Mrs. Doris Williams, leader,
and Junior Troop #395 from Ox
ford held the candlelighting cere
mony.
Delicious cup cakes decorated
with a Girl Scout motif and iced
cokes were served by Brownie
Troop #414 and Junior Troop
#207.
i "Clean-up” is an essential way
that Girl Scouts exemplify their
concern for the property of oth-
■ ers, and four troops, #706, #704,
• #1066, and #1065 did a good job.
i Three large boxes of canned
■ food were brought by Individual
scouts to be placed on the pantry
I sheft at the Department of Family
; and Children’s Service. Since
this latter project is sponsored
' continually by the Pilot Club of
' Covington, the Girl Scouts’ spon
, sor, it was a wonderful opportun
ity for the girls to share and to
i show their gratitude at the same
time.
Mrs. John Plant, Field Repre-
I sentative, announced plans for
the Stadium Event in Atlanta on
May 14, 1966 at 8:00 P.M.
MOONLIT
DRIVE-IN
CONYERS, GEORGIA
Thurs.-Fri.. March 31 - April 1
Stuart Whitman-Stanley Baker
Susannah York
"SANDS OF THE KALAHARI"
Technicolor
Saturday, April 2
Rory Calhoun
"FINGER ON THE TRIGGER"
Technicolor
Also
Mickeyßooney-Thomas Mitchell
"THUNDERING WHEELS"
Sun. April 3
Alec Guinness
"SITUATION HOPELESS
BUT NOT SERIOUS"
Also
Rory Calhoun
"FINGER ON THE TRIGGER"
Technicolor
CLOSED Mon. - Tue. - Wed.
Thursday-Friday April.. 7-8
Jim Reeves-Marty Robbins
"COUNTRY MUSIC
CARAVAN"
Eastmancolor
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Thursday, March 31, 1966
Rotary Recognition
Os Top 10% Pupils
Honors The Minds
■ By Leo S. Mallard I
heralded before the public. A
few young people were expected
to make all “A’s” and the rest
pass their work within the grading
system according to their efforts
and capabilities.
In the limelight however, par
aded the football, basketball,
baseball, and other sports stars.
They received trophies and star
dom setting them apart in a
realm of their own. This is fine
and these young athletes deserve
every bit of the credit that they
are given, but so do the stars
in the academic world.
Little did the top ten students
sitting at the Rotary banquet
realize that their achievement
is one they will be able to carry
with them all through life. Their
glory does not end on graduation
night. Their mental achieve
ments will benefit them in the
profession they choose to follow
through life and in the com
munity where they decide to live.
Remember young people, there
is nothing deader in the eyes
of the public than a high school
football, basketball, or baseball
player after he plays his last
game of his senior season. Few
get college scholarships and few
er still make the professional
teams.
Let’s rephrase a scripture
verse: Store up for yourself
an education while you are young,
and when you are older it will
not depart from you. In life
you will achieve by either your
brain or your brawn. People
find fulfillment by both, but those
persons with developed minds
achieve the highest renumeration
for their efforts in our society.
Covington
Temperatures
Temperatures in Covington
during the past week, according
to Jack Chapman, weatherman of
Covington were:
High Low
Wed. March 23 77 51
Thurs. March 24 68 42
Fri. March 25 56 29
Sat. March 26 57 33
Sun. March 27 60 35
Mon. March 28 56 33
Tues. March 29 62 27
Rainfall during the week total
ed .43 inch.
Willie C. Henson
Completes Course
At Ft. Jackson
FORT JACKSON, S.C. —Army
Pvt. Willie C. Henson, son of
Willie J. Henson, Route 1, Box
55, Newborn, Ga., completed a
light vehicle driver course at
Fort Jackson, S.C., March 3.
The 20-year-old soldier, son
of Mrs. Annie M. Glass, Route 2,
Box 13, Covington, Ga., entered
the Army in November 1965 and
completed basic training at Fort
Benning, Ga.
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COVINGTON. GEORGIA
Thursday-Friday-Saturday
March 31-April 1-2
Here Comes The King of
The Mississippi!
Elvis Presley in
"FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE"
In Technicolor
With Donna Douglas-Sue Ann
Langdon-Nancy Kovack
Admission on This Picture
Children 50c Adults SI.OO
Monday-Tuesday, April 4-5
It Begins Where Peyton Place
Left Off!
Carol Lynley-Jeff Chandler
Eleanor Parker-Mary Astor
Tuesday Weld in
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE"
Color
Beginning Wed., April 6
"OUR MAN FLINT"
Matinee-Mon.-Thurs.-Sat.-3.30
Shows Each Night Begin at 7:30