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VOLUME 101
We are just back from the
Georgia Press Convention, held
on Jekyll Island, .but before we
get entangled on that subject. •
which was an “Udder Success”,
we will have to mention the
good News that Don Ballard,
called and told us about.
It seems they have really been
at work, for it has been an
nounced that Butts, Newton and
Monroe Counties will receive
$190,861.00! Serving in New
ton County will be a special Com
mittee with Don Ballard, Chair
man; Walker Harris our Mayor,
and A. W. Jackson, Mayor of Ox
ford. These men are serving
without pay.
The money will be spent on
the education of the underpriv
ileged. It is hoped that all bus
iness men will find a place with
in their organization for these
people, who after a training pro
gram, perhaps can stay on this
same job. There will be Home
management, Family Planning
and many subjects. The basic
ambition of this program is to
provide skilled personnel for our
Industry, and bring in additional
Industry, .at the same time we
will upgrade our citizens who
are totally unskilled and under
privileged. We are truly grate
ful for this program, and feel
every citizen will join hands
with this committee, working
without pay, giving their ser
vices freely for our citizens
and our community. . .and help
put Newton County on top of the
list in this program.
Our Press Convention fell on
the same date as “Dairy Week”.
That is why we called the entire
Convention an “Udder Success.’
Because. . .one afternoon the en
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NEWS RECEIVES TWO GEORGIA PRESS AWARDS
The Covington NEWS received two awards at the 1966 Georgia
Press Association Convention held at Jekyll Island during the week
end. The NEWS won second place in General Advertising Excellence
and Mrs. Leo Mallard received a second-place award of $25.00
for her editorial “Twilight of Honor’’, published in the paper.
In the past 10 years The NEWS
has won 26 Georgia Press As
sociation awards. In National
Newspaper Association compet
ition since 1960 The NEWS has
won six awards, including one
"rst in Service to Agriculture
(1964) and a second in General
Excellence (1961).
In the GPA General Advertis
ing Excellence contest this year
the first-place winner in the state
was the Newnan Times-Herald.
Third was The Douglas Enter
prise. Judges’ comments on
all three entries stated: “Ex-
Miss Ruby Dixon is Victim
Hub Junction Wreck Monday
Miss Ruby Walton Dixon, 52,
sister of D. B. Dixon of Starrs
ville, was the victim of a two
car automobile collision Monday
afternoon at the Hub Junction
which is the intersection of U.S.
278 and State Route 11.
Miss Dixon was a passenger
in a car being driven by Mrs.
Frances H. Montgomery of Col
lege Park, according to State
Highway Trooper Bobby Hawk.
Another passenger in the car
was Mrs. Cleo Forehand of Hep
zibah, Ga. Both were hospitaliz
ed at Newton County Hospital
following the wreck.
Driver of the other car invol
ved was William Harper of Rut
ledge. Passengers in his car
included Willie Stanford, Harry
Clay, Lee Artis Smith and Joe
Cobb. All suffered cuts and
bruises, the State Patrol re
ported.
Trooper Hawk said the ac
cident took place about 2:00 p.m.
and that the Montgomery car was
Oxford Lions Club Installs Officers
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OXFORD LIONS Club installed their 1966-67 officers Thursday evening at the Community Center.
Presenting the president’s gavel to the incoming president Graham Davis (second from left) is Robert
Stanton (left). Lions International Counselor. Others left to right front row: W. A. Childers, Jr.,
immediate past president; Weldon Carson, first vice-president; Fred Taylor, second vice-president;
and John T. Lovern, third vice-president. Back row: Cecil Allgood, John Burson, directors; Cary
Allgood, tall twister; and Charles Ellis, secretary and treasurer.
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SHOWN AT THE GPA Annual Awards Banquet at Jekyll Island, are participants and Covington News
officials. Left to right Mrs. Leo Mallard, News vice-president, with check from the Salvation Army’s
“War Cry” in the “Best Religious Editorial” contest; Retiring GPA President Graham Ponder; Mrs.
Belmont Dennis News editor, and Emcee Kirk Sutlive, holding the News’s “General Excellence in
Advertising” award; and Leo Mallard, News advertising manager and treasurer.
cellent use of color, balance and
light are good. Ad planning
thoughtful and effective.’'
Issues of the NEWS for May
6, July 22 and November 18 were
submitted in the General Ad
vertising Excellence contest.
The NEWS’ Best Recipe Cookbook
was published in our paper on
July 22, and our Newton Ram
basketball tabloid special was
carried in the November 18
paper. Both these special sec
tions were in a variety of colors.
The award to Mrs. Mallard
traveling North on SR 11. The
other car was going West on
US 278, Hawk reported.
Miss Dixon was a native of
Screven County but had been a
teacher in the Decatur school
system for the past 26 years.
She was a graduate of Sylvania
High School and the University
of Georgia. In 1959 she was
chosen as Teacher of the Year.
She was a member of the First
Methodist Church in Decatur and
a member of the Order of the
Eastern Star of Decatur. She
was a member of the Seargent
Newton Chapter Daughters of
American Revolution of Cov
ington.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon, June 22,
at Harmony Methodist Church in
Sylvania with Rev. James May,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Decatur, officiating at
the last rites. Interment was in
Harmony Cemetery with J. C.
Harwell and Son Funeral Home of
Wp (fninnntnn
for her religious editorial “Twi
light of Honor’’ was written as
an aftermath of the cheating scan
dal of the United States Air Force
Academy. This marked the sec
ond time in three years that Mrs.
Mallard had won the War Cry
Editorial Contest as she was the
top winner in 1964.
The other three winners in the
Religious Editorial contest were:
Elsie Griner, Jr. of Nashville
Herald for the editorial “What
Do You Know About Jesus?’’
SSO; Martha Frances Brown of
Atlanta for the editorial “Out
From Under The Editor’s Hat”,
published in the DeKalb New
Era-Record. sls; A. F. Byrd
of Alma for the editorial “Prayer
For The Space Age” published
in The Alma Times. $lO.
Covington in charge of arrange
ments. Serving as pallbearers
were Ralph Dixon, Sylvania; Tho
mas Odum, Millen; Chester
Flanders, H. D. Anderson, Mar
vin Jenkins, Preston Jenkins and
J. D. Taylor, Sylvania; James
Anderson, M. D. Mcßae, Earn
est Mann, Starrsville and Harvey
Chestnut, Atlanta.
She is survived by three broth
ers, D. B. Dixon, Starrsville;
Rolin Colin Dixon, Augusta; Ber
nard Wayne Dixon, Charlotte,
North Carolina; two nieces Miss
Mary Jane Dixon, Starrsville;
Miss Alice Elizabeth Dixon,
Charlotte, North Carolina; three
nephews, Dennis B. Dixon HI,
Starrsville; B. Wayne Dixon Jr.,
Charlotte and William W. Jen
kins, Sylvania.
The NEWS joins the many
friends of the family in extending
deepest sympathy to them in their
bereavement.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1966
Ken Anglin
Is Graduate
Seminary
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kenneth
Lanier Anglin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rufus H. Anglin of 308
Mill Street in Covington, is
among the 182 June graduates
of the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary here. The sc
hool is the oldest of six se
minaries operated by the nation’s
largest Protestant denomination.
Anglin received the bachelor
of divinity degree. He Is a 1963
graduate of Mercer University
in Macon.
Dr. Harold W. Seever, alumnus
and former trustee of the school,
delivered the commencement ad
dress at graduation exercises In
the Alumni Memorial Chapel on
the seminary campus June 3.
He has recently resigned a 16-
year pastorate In Alabama due
to blindness.
Broom And Mop
Sale In Oxford
Members of the Oxford Lions
Club will conduct a Broom and
Mop Sale tonight (Thursday)
starting at 7 o’clock.
John Burson, Lions Club chair
man of brooms, said that the
residential sections of the town
would be canvassed during the
evening. Money derived from
the sale of the brooms and mops
will go toward the Lions eye
sight conservation program.
5 Teen-Agers
Admit Crimes
Five Newton County teen-agers
who were apprehended recently
by Newton County Sheriff Dept,
and GBI Agent D. C. Ghorm
ley have confessed to a series
of breakins and thefts over the
past two months in the county,
most of which took place in the
Salem Community.
In the confession the youths
stated that they had robbed the
following places: Berry’s Bar
ber Shop, Salem Road, $79.00;
Ellington’s Grocery, Salem Road;
Paradise Lake Fishing Camp,
just off Salem Road; Bailey’s
Grocery, Salem Road; a trailer
home on State Route 81 near
Salem Road; and a private home
on State Route 81 near Salem
Road.
Covington Man Drowns In Attempt
To Swim Across Jackson Lake
Harold Brown, 17, of West
Street, Covington, drowned Mon
day morning as he attempted to
swim Jackson Lake, according
to Newton County Civil Defense
Director R, T. Floyd.
The man, a member of a crew
cutting an electric power right
of-way for an REA firm, started
to swim across the lake near
the Jasper-Newton county line
$190,861 Grant Received For
Ocmulgee Opportunity Work
W. D. Ballard, Chairman -President, Mayor Walker Harris, of
Covington, member, and Mayor A. W. Jackson of Oxford, member,
of the Upper Ocmulgee EOC, have announced that they have been
notified by the U. S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
that the counties of Newton, Butts, and Monroe, comprising the
Upper Ocmulgee EOC, has been awarded an initial grant of $190,861
for the setting up of various programs for these counties. And that
an additional appropriation of $130,000 for the Manpower Deve
lopment Training Program should be forthcoming and approved
within the next few weeks.
These programs approved
under these grants are for the
upgrading of our labor market
in these counties to enable this
area to compete for new Industry
by supplying skilled and semi
skilled personnel. The basic plan
enables an employer to hire a
non-skilled worker for training
purposes, pay the worker the
standard wage, with the Upper Oc
mulgee EOC defraying one third
of the cost until the worker ac
quires the necessary skills.
Funds are also made available for
the upgrading of workers already
employed and who desire to ac
quire higher skills with their
present employers.
Mr. Ballard stressed that
under these plans, “the hiring,
training, and paying of personnel
is carried out exclusively by the
employer, with no grant being
FHA Cottage Robbed Monday
A cottage at the FFA Camp
at Lake Jackson was robbed Mon-
Kindergarten
Registration
The Porterdale Baptist Church
Kindergarten will hold its Regis
tration Day, June 27 from 4 PM
until 6 PM. If you would like to
enroll your child in this church
r elate 1 kindergarten, at least one
parent is requested to be present.
Rotary To Install
Sutton Is Speaker
Dr. Dallas M. Tarkenton, Re
gistrar, Director of Admissions
and Associate Professor at Ox
ford College of Emory University
will be installed President of the
Covington Rotary Club Tuesday,
June 28. The Tarkentons came
to Oxford In 1961 from Athens.
They had lived in the Classic
City for 10 years. On coming
to Oxford they became active in
college, church, and civic affairs.
Serving as editor of the club
bulletin, the bulletin won top
district honors in its classifi
cation. He has served as chair
man of the program committee
and as a member of the District
Committee for Matching Clubs.
Preliminary to the installat
ion, committee assignments for
the year have been made, board
meetings have been conducted,
the Rotaryannes have been or
ganized to be active for the
Rotary year, and Tarkenton and
E. G. Lassiter attended the Dis
trict Assembly at Millen on June
20.
D. M. Johnson will serve as
vice-president, James W. Mor
gan is the new secretary, John
Morford is the continuing trea
surer, and Jack Christian is the
Sargeant-at-arms. Completing
the Board of Directors four men
serve as Director-Chairman of
the four broad areas of Rotary
functions. They are: E. G.
Lassiter, Director-Chairman oi
Club Service; Alvin Rape, Di
rector-Chairman of Vocational
Services; Ted Stroud, Director-
Chairman Community Services;
and Bill Hoffman, Director -
Chairman of International Ser
vice.
The Rotaryannes for the first
time have now organized them
selves to be active in the sup
port of and participation in Ro
tary interests. They have elected
four chairmen who will each ser
ve for three months of the year.
Every Rotaryanne will be a mem
ber of one of the four groups thus
organized. The leaders of the
four groups are: Margaret Rape,
about 10:30 a. m.
The Newton County CD Rescue
Unit was notified about 11:15 and
a crew of men and the necessary
equipment sent from Covington
immediately. The body was re
covered by Newton CD workers
about 11:45 a. m.
Mr. Floyd said that the man
apparently became exhausted by
the long swim area.
made directly to the trainees.;
and the purpose of these pro
grams is to assist industry in
training help for its needs and
the upgrading generally of our
local labor force.” He further
stressed the point that the only
requirement of an employer is
that the worker so being trained
be paid at least a minimum wage
of $1.25 per hour and offer gain
ful employment to the trainee
when the training period has
expired.
This program is set up for
the training of 250 trainees In a
continuing program to supply a
steady stream of trained em
ployees in a rapidly expanding
local economy.
Generally speaking the res
ponsibility of locating and choos
ing trainees win be left up to
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day evening of two radios, a cam
era and about $25.00 in cash.
The burglary took place while a
group of FHA girls at the camp
were absent from their cabin
about 8 p. m.
The Newton County Sheriffs
Dept, and GBI Agent D. C. Ghorm
ley investigated the case and
early Tuesday apprehended three
young men who admitted the
crime. All the stolen property
was recovered, Sheriff Henry
Odum stated. The men are now
being held in custody in Cov
ington.
All three young men live near
the camp, the Sheriffs Dept. said.
w. A. SUTTON
Ruth Lassiter, France? Pratt
and Dot Christian. They are
already busy in Rotary concerns.
The installation service will
be a Ladles Night Affair to be
held at the Porterdale Hotel at
7:30 P. M., on Tuesday June
28. The Speaker for this spe
cial event is William A. Sut
ton, Vice-President of the Citi-
Officer installation At Covington WSCS
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NEW OFFICERS of the First Methodist Church Women’s Society of Christian Service were installed
Monday at the church. Pictured (left to right): Mrs. Dan Clower, president of the local WSCS- Mrs
B. H. Martin, Jr., Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District WSCS vice-president; and Mrs. M H Sneed’ nre
sident of the district WSCS. ’ * * v
School Bonds Passed
Newton County voters approved
the $360,000 school bond issue
yesterday (Wednesday) as ballot
ing was light throughout the coun
ty. In 11 of the 16 voting pre
cincts 414 citizens voted for the
issuance of the school bonds and
146 against the bonds.
In Covington, Oxford, Porter
dale and Stansells (Salem), tradi
tionally the heavy voting districts
in the county, the bonds carried
a heavy okay. In Covington City
balloting the vote for the bonds
was 217 for and 35 against. Ox-
Dr. Michael Pulliam Will
Begin Practice Here Monday
Dr. Michael Pulliam will begin
the practice of General Medicine
in Covington on June 27. Dr.
Pulliam will be in the offices
formerly occupied by Dr. Thomas
L. Crews at 310 North Mill Street.
The Physician is a native of
Covington, having finished New
ton County High School in 1957.
Dr. Pulliam attended the Univer
sity of Georgia where he
graduated in 1961. Following
this he attended the Medical Col
lege of Georgia, graduating in
1965. He recently completed a
rotating Internship at the Col
umbus Medical Center, Colum
bus.
Dr. Pulliam is the author of
two Scientific Papers—“ Use of
Formaliyed Skin in the Treat
ment of Third Degree Burns”
and “The Use of Synthetic Re
sin Adhesives for Placement of
Skin Grafts”. Both of these
articles were published In the
November 1964 issue of the Am
erican Surgeon.
Dr. Pulliam is the son of H.M.
Pulliam of Covington, a teacher
of Agriculture in the Newton
Tarkenton President;
At Tuesday Fete 7:30
zens and Southern National Bank
and manager of the Department
of the Agricultural Department.
For 34 years Mr. Sutton was
with the University of Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service.
He was in the leadership in
the construction of the three
million dollar Rock Eagle 4-H
Club Foundation.
An active Methodist, Mr. Sut
ton is Conference Lay Leader of
the North Georgia Conference of
the Methodist Church. Mr. and
Mrs. Sutton live in Atlanta. Their
Kiwonis Chairmen
To Give Reports
Chairmen of the various com
mittees of the Covington Kiwanis
Club will give reports of a half
year’s work at the club’s lunch
eon meeting today (Thursday)
at Legion Home at 1 o’clock.
Terry Avery, club secretary, will
be in charge of the program to
day.
Program chairman Edgar Wood
and President James Hutchins
stated that a review of the year’s
work thus far should be of inter
est to all Kiwanians.
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ford had 44-8, Porterdale 34-7
and Stansells 34-6.
Supt. of Schools J. W. Richard
son said the sale of the bonds
would be undertaken in the next
few days and that the architects’
plans had already been drawn
subject to the voting ‘yes’ to the
bond Issue. Mr. Richardson sta
ted that the new Vocational High
School would be built in the near
future and it was his hope that
the building would be ready by
January 1, 1967.
Ki
DR. PULLIAM
County School System for the
past 29 years. Dr. Pulliam Is
married to the former Elaine
Henry and they have three child
ren, 4, 3 and 1 year old re
spectively. He has been in the
US Army Reserves for the past
eight years.
son, W. A. Sutton, Jr. lives in
Colorado Springs, Colorado and
their daughter, Mrs. E. H. Moody
lives in Marietta.
Another special feature of the
Ladies Night and Installation Ser
vice for 1966 will be hosting the
widows of past Rotarians and to
recognize the four Rotaryannes
who will serve as chairmen of
that group for the year.
The new president is a native
Virginian, as is his Rotaryanne,
Frances. They came to Georgia
from Washington, D. C. in 1951.
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Welfare Office
To Move Mon.
The Newton County Department
of Family and Children Services
office will be closed Monday June
27 as the agency will move to
its new building at the corner of
Adams Street and U. S. Highway
278.
Miss Rebecca Pennington, dir
ector of the local DFCS said that
the office will reopen in the new
location on Tuesday, June 28.
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