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Lonely, you say? Lost thelast
loved one, and nobody knows how
bad it is? Open your eyes
dear folks! Look around you!
Os course you never knew how
to sympathize with a friend who
lost his or her loved one, and
was left alone, because you had
never walked that pathway your
self. Experience is the greatest
teacher.
Now you are left alone. Don’t
you dare make your neighbors
run from you or hate to come
to see you because you make
them so miserable with your sor
row and grief. It’s bad! That
we know! But we found a good
‘¢salve’”’ for the great wound im
mediately, almost. You want to
know what it is? Here goes:
Sure 'n I know you are not as
young as you once were. . .but
you know that poor old lady, who
used to teach you in Sunday
School. Well, when she lost her
companion, you thought to your
self. . .*“Well, he was old, he
could not have lived much longer
any way.” 7That was ! 1t
wasn’t like YOU losing yours
was it? Just the same mydears,
just the same. . .Those foot
steps so anxiously awaited at
noon and night are gone forever
« N 0 cheery good-morning. .
nobody to talk to. Now, you have
the same thing. .you can weather
it, your friend did! If you could
know what joy you could bring
those friends, all over your com
munity, you would be truly about
your ‘‘Father’s Business.” Go
to see every one of them. Oh!
You did send flowers? Well,
that was something to call the
florist and they sent them out
. othey put your card on them.
It helped to know you cared.
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Porterdale PTA
Meets Tonight
PORTERDALE — The PTA of
Porterdale School will meet on
Thursday, September 15, At 6
o’clock, Open House will be held
in the classrooms with the re
gular meeting to be at 7 o’clock
in the school lunchroom,
""Mr, John Blankenship, Pre=-
sident, will appoint committees
for the new year, Mr, W, D,
Robertson, former President,
will bring the devotional. Re
freshments will be served by the
members of the Executive Com
mittee,
Fall From Truck Is
Fatal To Conyers Man
An accident Monday night on
State Route 20 in Newton County
claimed the life of a Conyers man
as wind blew a mattress off a
pickup ‘truck, Dead some 10
minutes after arrival at Grady
Memorial Hospital in Atlanta was
Benjamin Blake of Route 2, Con
yers,
Sam Cowan, coroner of Newton
County, said that the man appa
rently died of multiple skull frac
tures, He was first taken to New
ton County Hospital and then
rushed to Grady.
Mr, Blake was helping a cousin,
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COVINGTON MAYOR Walker Harris admires the front cover photo
sketch of Covington’s SSO-million Hercules plant in the current
issue of ‘‘Georgia Progress’’, The magazine is the monthly pub
lication of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, A two
paga spread of pictures and an article on the Herculas plant, to be
built in Covington, was featured in the magazine, Harris was in
strumental in getting the plant for our city.
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The Georo § _5? ,3? . .ablished 1865—The Covington Star, Established 1874—The Enterprise, Established 1902, and The Citizen-Observer, Established 1953
VOLUME 10)
SPivn. ZRS, CARTER, GEER CARRYNEWTON
Coleman Elected President
Covington-Newton C of C
Grady Coleman, president of
the First National Bank of New
ton County, was elected presi
dent of the Covington-Newton
County Chamber of Commerce
Monday. Mr. Coleman had been
serving as president of the or
ganization since the resignation
of Dean Getz, who was trans=
ferred to Albany, Ga. by the
Brunswick Corp.
A committee of past presi
dents made the nominations of
officers for the coming club year.
Marion Piper was chairman of
the committee. All officers were
elected as recommended by the
nominating groupe.
Hugh Steele was elected vice=
president and the four board of
directors named for two-year
terms are; Carl Smith, Moody
Summers, Dr. Johnny Maloney
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Speeding During
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Week In City
Covington City policemen had
an unusually busy week ticketing
motorists for speeding, accord
ing to police records at City
Hall, Thirteen drivers were
given citations to appear in Judge
E. W, Strozier’s court on Mon
day.
Other cases called for trial
in the judge’s court Monday in
cluded eight with reckless dri
ving, four with driving without
a license, five for driving under
the influence of intoxicants, and
one with running two stop signs.
The five cases involving dri
ving under the influence of in
toxicants saw four of the five
either forfeit W& $l5O bond
or were, fined $l5O, The other
motorist was fined SIOO,
One woman was fined S4O, for
shoplifting in a downtown store,
Another person drew a fine of
S2OO for possessing untaxed-paid
liquor,
T, Corley, move his sister’s
household goods when the gust of
wind blew the mattress off, Mr,
Blake attempted to cling to the
mattress and keep iton the truck,
but failed, The accident happened
about 1 mile south of the Zion
Baptist Church about 10 p, m.,
Mr, Cowan stated, The truck
was traveling about 20 miles per
hour,
Mann & Walden Funeral Home
of Conyers picked up the body
Tuesday morning at Caldwell &
Cowan Funeral Home in Coving
ton, . .
Ahe Cpuinnton News
and Marion Piper. Holdover
members of the board are: Bill
Hoffman, John Morford, Sam
Ramsey, Phillip Cohen. Ex=-
officio members are: Commis~
sioner Tom Bates, Covington
Mayor Walker Harris, Rep. Otis
Spillers and the C, Os C, Sec=-
retary, Charles Strickland.
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United Fund
Committee
Dennis Kane, Chairman of the
Covington-Newton County United
Fund Budget Committee, has an
nounced the appointment of nine
civic leaders to serve on the
1967 Executive Committee of the
Citizens Review and Allocation
Board.
Members of the Budget Exec=-
utive Committee are; Rev. Owen
Kellum, Cranston Gray, W. J.
Dickey, Donald Stephenson, E,G.
Lassiter, Mrs. Helen Dickinson,
Rev. Tom White and R. O. Ar
nold.
Within the next few days, Kane
said, the Committee will start
review of the programs and op
erating costs of the participating
agencies to determine funds
needed to continue these ser
vices next year.
The budget will then be pre
pared and approved by the Board
of Trustees of the United Fund.
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Mitchell Wright
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Kiwanis Speaker
Today At 1 P.M.
Mitchell Reid Wright, son of
Mrs., W, C, Wright and the late
Dr. Wright of Covington, will be
the guest speaker at the Coving
ton Kiwanis Club luncheon meet
ing today (Thursday) at Legion
Home at 1 o’clock, Ray Reece
is program chairman for the
meeting and he will introduce
the speaker,
Mr, Wright has been living in
Paris, France since the close of
World War II and he owns and
operates a private studio in the
French Metropolis, He studied
at the Art Students League in
New York City, and the Beaux
Arts Academy in Paris before
opening his studio in Paris,
Mr, Wright was a foreign cor
respondent for the New York
Tribune and the London (Eng
land) Daily Mail for many years,
¢“Beyond All Barriers’’, a
color film with scenes from
around the world, was the pro
gram at Covington Kiwanis Club
Thursday, Ray Reece, Covington
Manager of Southern Bell, had
charge of the interesting and
educational event,
Visitors at the meeting in
cluded Norbert Thompson, man
ager of the C, R, Bard, Inc,
plant to be built in Covington;
Jack Bolton of Atlanta; Arthur
Henderson ‘of Covington; Grier
Stephenson of Covington; and Ar
tie Hays and Jimmy Alexander,
Key Club members,
A new member was inducted
in the club, He is Prof, Lee
Crippen of Oxford College, Dean
V.Y,.C, Eady handled the induct
ion ceremony, Mr, Crippen is a
former member of the Maryville,
Tenn, Kiwanis Club, He isdirect=
or of Housing at Oxford.
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Hebert Is Speaker For Newton
Mental Health Annual Meeting
Paul B, Hebert, Director of
Social Work Service at the Geor
gia Mental Health Institute, in
Atlanta, will be the speaker at
the Annual Meeting of the Newton
County Mental Health Association
on Thursday evening, September
22, at seven-thirty o’clock at the
Snapping Shoals EMC Building
in Covington. Prior to assuming
duties at the institute, Mr. Hebert
was an assistant professor inthe
Department of Psychiatry at the
Emory University School of Med
icine. He has also had valuable
experiences at the Veterans Ad
ministration Regional Office in
Atlanta, Georgia as a Clinical
Social Worker and as the Field
Representative of the Florida
Children’s Commission at Tall
ahassee, Florida. .
From February 1958 to July
1962, Mr. Hebert was the Dir
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1966
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NEW OFFICERS of the Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce were elected Monday at the
organization’s September meeting. Shown from left to right (front): Hugh Steele, vice-president, and
Grady Celeman, president. Back (L. to R,): Marion Piper, Carl Smith and Dr. Johnny Maloney, board
of directors for 2-year terms. Another director elected, but not present for the picture, is Moody
Summers.
Bard Official Says
Construction To Start
In Covington In 60 Days
Norbert Thompson, manager
of the Covington affiliate of C.
R. Bard, Inc., a surgical and
hospital specialties company,
was the guest speaker at the
Covington-Newton County Cham=
ber of Commerce meeting for
Septembers, The meeting was
held at the Teen Can building on
Newton Drive, Monday at noon.
Mr. Thompson told the cham=
ber members about the growth
of the Bard firm, a leader in
its field since the organization
of the firm in 1907. He stated
that many of the Bard products
include several types of cathe
ters, arterial grafts, plastic tub
ing and rubber tubing, IV Cath
eters, angiocath and intracath,
surgical filter masks, and num
erous patient-ready products. He
said that one of the products to
be made here will be a new type
surgical glove.
The building planned for Cov
ington will require about 100,000
square feet of building space and
will employ about 100 people
initially, with an employment of
up to 300 people in the future.
Mr. Thompson said the construc
tion work on the building should
get underway within 60 dayse
Phillip Cohen introduced Mr.
Thompson.
Visitors at the meeting Mon=-
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Jaycees Sponsoring
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Voter Registration
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City Os Covington
The Newton County Jaycees
are sponsoring a voter registra
tion prior to the City Election in
December, This civic organi
zation has taken on this asapro
ject to urge all citizens to re
gister and vote,
Deadline for voter registration
in the city is 30 days before the
election, according to Cliff Ro
gers, chairman of the Jaycee
project,
The hours for voter registra=
tion is 8:30 a, m, to 4 p, m,
Monday through Friday, and from
8:30 to 12 noon on Saturday at
City Hall,
ector of the Fellowship Club, a
social club for hospital return
ees which is operated in Atlanta
by the Atlanta Mental Health As
sociation. To keep abreastofthe
improvements in the treatment
and care as well as the pre
vention of mental illness, mem=~
bership on the Professional Ad
visory Committee of both the
Matropolitan Atlanta Mental Hea=
Ith Association and the Georgia
Association for Pastoral Care
and a Board Member of the Geor
gia Conference on Social Welfare
and the North Georgia Chapter
of' the National Association of
Social Workers have been re
warding challenges for Mr, He
bert.
A Floridian, he attended the
University of Florida and Florida
State University, obtaining his
8.5., degree in 1950, In 1952,
he received his M.,S,W, degree
day included: Mrs. Robert Hod
ges, Mrs. Gilbert Gober of Cov
ington; Dr. Bond Fleming of Ox
ford College; Alva Spillers and
Grier Stephenson, sons of C, of
C. members Otis Spillers and
Donald Stephenson.
One committee chairman made
a &hort report. He was Otis
Spillers of- the County-Road Sign
Committeg -« He said that the
signs should be installed soonall
over the county.
“The Curious Savage” Is Next
Production Community Theatre
The Newton Community The
atre has announced try-outs to
day for the Fall Production‘¢The
Curious Savage”, according to
Chairman Mrs. Carlos Meyer.
Try-outs for this comedy will
e held from 4:00 P.M, until
No Epidemic
0f Hepatitis
In Newton Co.
Dr. C, B, Teal, Jr.,, District
Medical Director for Newton
County, has issued a statement
pertaining to a reported outbreak
of hepatitus in the county, His
statement follows:
‘lt was reported that a large
number of cases of hepatitis
were present in the Porterdale
area, particularly in one small
area, These reports were in
vestigated thoroughly, and
positively no evidence was found
to substantiate this, Only ten
cases of hepatitis have been re
ported to the State Health De
partment from Newton County
since June Ist, 1966, Further
local investigation revealed only
a few additional cases not re
ported, It is felt by-the Newton
County Health Department thatat
present there is not an unusually
large number of cases, but vi
gilance will be maintained inthis
area,”
from Florida States. A World
War II veteran, he is an elder
in the Hillside Presbyterian Chu
rch in Decatur, and is active
in Boy Scout Work.
He will be introduced by Mrs.
R. M, Paty, a member of the
Annual Meeting Committee whose
chairman is Mrs. James E, Hard
man, Others working on this
committee were: Mrs. Harry
Faulkner, Mrs. Robert L, Faulk=~
ner, Mrs. Richard Bellairs, and
John Morford.
Every citizen in Newton County
who contributes to the United
Fund is invited to this meeting
as the Newton County Mental
Health Association is a partic
ipating agency. This is a mar
velous opportunity to know more
about mental health and the role
individuals in Newton County are
playing.
Newborn Mayor
Guy Jones At
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Emory Hospital
Guy Jones, mayor of New
born, entered Emory Univer
sity Hospital, Tuesday for ob
servation and treatment.
An interview with a family
spokesman revealed Mr.
Jones’ condition as improving.
Many friends throughout this
section are extending - good.
wishes for Mr. Jones’ con
tinued progress, and early re
covery.
5:30 P.M, today, September 15,
and tonight from 7:30 until 9:00
at Newton County High School
Auditorium. Try-outs are open
to all who are interested in
drama and it is the hope of the
Community Theatre that this sch
‘edule will make it possible for
all to attend.
¢“The Curious Savage’’ has
been a very successful play and
it offers a variety of roles and
types. The cast is composed of
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Bloodmobile
Visit Cancelled
Jim McKay, Newton County
Chapter Chairman of the Amer
ican National Red Cross, has
announced that the September
29th visit of the Bloodmobile
has been cancelled due to sev=
eral cases of hepatitis in the
county. Mr. McKay says that
the Health Department officials
advised against the Bloodmobile
visit at this time.
“It is hoped that this will
clear up and the Bloodmobile
will be able to come to the
county in October,”” Mr. McKay
stated,
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NEWTON JAYCEES made a payment on the ice machine for Newton County boys in Viet Nam as this
photo was taken recently., From left to right: Jimmy Edwards, chaplain; Cliff Rogers, Billy Smith of
Covington Electric Company; Wayne Hunt, treasurer; Ronnie Patterson, Frank Malcolm, Jaycee
president; and Jack Harwell, past president. The ice machine was a project of the local Jaycees and
the machine was paid for by public donations.
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Runoff Race September 28
For Newton Representative
Newton County Representative
Otis Spillers, State Senator Jim
my Carter and Lt.-Governor Pe
ter Zack Geer were the top
vote-getters in the Democratic
Primary held in Newton County
yesterday (Wednesday). In un
official returns from 15 of the 16
precincts in the county approxi
mately 5,400 persons cast their
ballot, Only the Stansells dis
trict had not completed vote tab
ulation when The News went to
press at 12:30 a,m,
The Newton representative
race was a close count between
incumbent Spillers and former
representative W, D, Ballard,
Spillers received a total of
2,216 votes and Ballard had
2,036, A third man in the race,
Jack H, Morgan, polled 947 votes.
This means that a runoff race
will be held on September 28
between Spillers and Ballard,
In the governor’s race Jimmy
Carter polled 1,975 votes, Les
ter Maddox 1,310, Ellis Arnall
919, James Gray 413, Garland
Byrd 195 and Hoke O’Kelley 110,
Edgar Wood Elected President
Os Newton Band Booster Club
At a recent meeting of the
Blue Rambler Band Boosters,
the following officers were elec
ted:
President, Edgar Wood,
Vice President, C, T, Bohanan,
Vice President Cadet Band,
Mrs, W, R, Ballenger,
Secretary, Mrs, Alvin Rape,
Treasurer, Hugh Kesler,
gl Fone
Th committees were
appointed:
Finance Chairman, J, H, Den
nis; James Corry, Hugh Kesler,
Matt Klem,
Transportation Chairman, Al
vin Rape.
Membership Chairman, C, T,
Bohanan, .
Publicity Chairman, Mrs, J,
W, Purcell, Mrs, Matt Klem,
Mrs, Edgar Wood.
Ticket Committee, Co-Chair-
5,670 Enrolled In Newton
Schools On The First Day
An enrollment of 5,670 stu
dents in the 10 schools of New
ton County reported to their res
pective institutions on the first
day of school, September 1, ac
cording to an announcement by
James Bohannon, Visiting Teach
er.
Mr. Bohannon said that there
probably will be more students
entering the schools within the
next two weeks as that has been
the pattern in recent years in
Newton County.
The enrollment last year inthe
county schools was 5,412. This
year’s mark on the first day of
school, shows an increase of 258
pupils, Mr. Bohannon stated.
The biggest increase in en
rollment this year is at the R. L.
Cousins School where 171 in
crease brought their total en-
NUMBER 37
The closest race took place in
the City of Covington between
Ben T, Huiet and Sam Caldwell
for the office of Commissioner of
Labor, Caldwell had a 11-vote
margin, 1066 to 1055, The to
tal vote in the county was not
available late last night,
For the office of Lieutenant-
Governor, Peter Zack Geer car
ried Newton County by an un
official vote of 2,388 to House
Speaker George T, Smith’s 1,792,
In another contested race
James Bentley had a sub
stantial margin over Zack
Cravey.
The vote tabulation
by precincts will be
carried in next weeks
issue of The Covington
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Edgar Wood
man, Mrs, Tom Williams and
Mrs, Sara Williams,
Recreation, Mr, and Mrs,
Amocs Miller,
rollment to 1,447. Last year
1,276 were entered.
Other schools showing an in
crease in enrollment this year
are: Livingston 49, Palmer-
Stone 46, East Newton 44 and
E. L. Ficquett 36,
First day enrollment at the
various schools follow:
School 1966 1965
NCHS : 955 978
Ficquett 911 875
Porterdale 524 525
Palmer-Stone 9531 485
Heard-Mixon 119 128
Livingston 345 296
Mansfield 114 127
R. L. Cousins 1447 1276
East Newton 405 361
Washington St. 348 361
Tctals 5670 5412