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They liked us, that’s why they
came! It was mutual, we can
assure you, for all local citizens
fell in love with those fine Ex
ecutives who brought to our town
a multimillion dollar industry.
Sure, Friday 13th, 1967 was our
lucky day! That was the day we
were invited to the opening of
Mobil Chemical Companys new
plant here. As we rushed in
from freezing weather outside,
what did we see in that spacious
auditorium? Our very own New
ton County Band filled the front
of that building! There they
were, a beautiful picture in uni
form, with their musical instru
ments all ready to play for us.
That’s not all, those thoughtful
people had a huge coffee urn with
steaming hot coffee ready to
serve, with doughnuts and other
goodies. That was the most wel
come cup of coffee we ever had!
You should have heard our Band
in that great and spacious room!
One of the executives, to whom
Iwas talking, was simply carried
away with the Band. Why? He
was a member of his high school
and also his college band. He
assured me their timing was
perfect and not a "sour note”
to be heard anywhere. We took
him down and Introduced him to
our fine Band Director, Basil
Rigney.. .told him of the Record
ing Century made of some of the
Band’s renditions, .and Mr. Rig
ney brought to the luncheon at
the Elks Club, a record for them
to take back North with them.
So, Boys and Girls, we are mak
ing History!
In our invitations to the Open
ing on Friday, we were told that
the President, in his message
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Newton Jaycees To Fete
‘Outstanding’ Selectees
The Newton County Jaycees
will honor the outstanding young
educator, outstanding young far
mer and outstanding young man
In the community at a banquet
held at the E. L. Ficquett School,
January 24, 1967 at 7:30 p.m.
These men will be selected by
an independent panel of judges
and the winners will be disclos
ed at the Banquet.
The main speaker will be Lee
R. Grogan, the president of the
Georgia Jaycees. Mr. Grogan
attended Emory College at Ox
ford and graduated from Mer
cer University in 1955. He is a
partner in the firm of Grogan and
Jones in Columbus, where he
resides.
John Lackey, one of the Jay
cee National Directors and Fow
ler Brooks, President of the
sixth region will also be pre
sent.
Tickets for the Banquet are
now available from any Jaycee
member.
Covington To Get New
House Numbering System
As Covington progresses and '
prepares for future growth, the
needs become greater for more
effective services throughout the
city.
One of the most urgent needs
In Covington is an organized
well-coordinated house number
ing system. The system that now
exists is inadequate, out-dated
and cannot possibly be coordin
ated with future building. A
completely new house number
ing system for the city has been
designed based on the SECTOR
TYPE numbering system. The
required ordinance providing for
this change has been officially
adopted by the Mayor and Council
and all necessary materials for
the actual change throughout the
city are now on hand. The num
ber assigned to your home or
business place will be furnish
ed by the city and put up by
city personnel.
The system Is endorsed by
the U. S. Postal Service and has
been approved by the city’s pro
fessional planners, once com
pleted, It will provide for more
efficient mail delivery and great
er promptness of police, fire and
ambulance services to your home
or business establishment.
The signs that are now being
erected throughout the city are
Sector signs that will determine
the sector of the city in which
you live. The entire system is
expected to be completed by the
first of April.
"Your cooperation with the
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VOLUME 102
HOSPITAL BONDS APPROVED BY VOTERS
Dr. Crane To
Speak At
Porterdale
PORTERDALE — Dr. W. E.
Crane, director of the Pastoral
Counseling Institute in Athens,
will be the guest minister at the
eleven o’clock service in the
Porterdale Presbyterian Church
on Sunday, January 22, 1967.
As Dr. Crane served this
church as its pastor from Jan
uary 1927 to October 1930, there
are many friends in Porterdale
and Newton County who remem
ber him with warm regard and
appreciation.
Sunday Service
At Porterdale
By Y Members
As a part of observance of
YMCA week, the Y clubs of
Newton County High School will
conduct a worship service at the
Porter Memorial Methodist
Church in Porterdale on Sunday
evening, January 22, at seven
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city in its new house numbering
system will be appreciated,” Ma
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quett School Friday morning. John N. Youmans of the State Health Department, Atlanta, Is using the
injector-type of shot to some of the first and seventh graders and teachers at the school. He stated that
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CUTTING THE RIBBON for the formal opening of Covington’s
newest industry, the Mobil Chemical plastics plant, is Mobil
Chemical President John D. Fennebresque (left). Smiling and
As he officially opened a multi-million dollar plastics plant where
production machinery is still being installed, the president of Mobil
Chemical Friday announced plans for a second plant at the same site
in Covington.
John D. Fennebresque, who led
a delegation of Mobil Chemical
executives here for plant opening
ceremonies, said construction
will start in March on a second
multi-million dollar facility, this
one to produce polystyrene foam
meat trays along with newly
developed foam produce trays and
egg cartons which will be intro
duced nationally this year.
Today’s ceremonies marked
the opening of a packaging ma
terials plant which produces
plastic film products for indus
tires and institutions in Georgia
and eight other southern states.
। Mobil Chemical is an operating
I division of Mobil Oil Corporation.
In addition to plastics facilities
here, its Georgia operations in
clude chemical fertilizer plants
in Albany, Savannah and Rome,
a district sales office in Albany
which distributes agricultural
Mobil Chemical To Build
Second Plant In Covington
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1967
chemicals through some 650 of
the state’s farm supply dealers,
and a multi-wall paper bag plant
in Atlanta.
When the new foams plant is
completed next summer, Mobil
Chemical’s total capital invest
ment in Georgia will exceed $7.5
million.
The two new plastics plants
here will employ about 300 per
sons by year’s end, and are ex
pected to double their payrolls
over the next several years.
The Covington installations are
the first Mobil Chemical plastics
plants in the Southeast. The plas
tics division, which is headquar
tered in Macedon, N. Y., has two
plants in New York State, two in
Illinois and two more in Calif
ornia.
At today’s ceremony, Howard
J. Samuels, vice president of
Mobil Chemical and general man-
Tuberculin Skin Test Given By Jet Injector
approving are Covington Mayor Walker Harris, Mobil Chemical
Vice-President Howard Samuels and Covington plant manager
Gerald Wendel (left to right).
A Page of pictures
on the dedication and
open house of Mobil
Chemical is on Page 4
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ager of its plastics division, said
the division plans "development
and expansion in the Southeast to
serve a growing market” for its
products.
Heretofore, Samuels said,
Southeastern customers were
served out of the New York
State and Midwest plants.
Samuels said Covington was
selected as the site for the new
plants because it "offers extra
ordinary opportunities for growth
and has forward-looking civic
leadership.”
Covington Mayor Walker Har
ris and members of the City
Council represented the city in
the ceremonies.
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700 injections could be given per hour with this type equipment. The program is a joint effort by the
county and State Health Departments. Aiding in the clinic Friday were Miss Sara Gordon, Public Health
Nurse, and Miss Marie Canada, Nursing Director of District 29.
AIG Official Is
Kiwanis Speaker
Today At 1 P.M.
Guest speaker at the regular
weekly meeting of the Covington
Kiwanis Club today (Thursday)
at the Davis House Restaurant
will be Charles S. Dudley, Man
aging Director of the Associated
Industries of Georgia (AIG). The
luncheon meeting will start at 1
p. m.
Dean V.Y.C. Eady is in charge
of the meeting today and he will
Introduce the speaker. Mr. Dud
ley has been associated with AIG
since 1944, when he came to At
lanta from Dallas, Texas.
The theme of Mr. Dudley’s
speech will be "Kiwanis in 1967”.
As a pioneer he was instrumen
tal in building the organization’s
far-reaching program of citizen
ship and youth services, and as a
member of the International
Board of Trustees of Kiwanis
International in initiating and
launching the Kiwanis "KEEP
AMERICA AMERICAN” project.
He organized and directed over
a period of some five years, the
Panel Forum program for high
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I I Obituary 6
Society 9
I । Sports 17-18 i
1 ' Legal 22&26
Classified 26&27
New Addition And Expansion
Slated For Newton Hospital
A $475,000 bond issue to build
a new addition and expand the pre
sent facilities at the Newton
County Hospital was approved by
the voters of Newton County yes
terday (Wednesday) by a vote of
830 to 292 in unofficial balloting
in 12 of the 16 precincts of the
county.
The Covington precinct gave an
okay to the bond issue by a vote
of 469 to 87. The next highest
votes In favor of the proposal
saw Porterdale cast 88 votes for
the bonds and 33 against. Ox
ford’s vote was 62 for and 25
against.
The local money will be aided
in the building program by Hill-
Burton funds and the overall
amount to be realized will be
about $1,070,000.
Hospital authorities have
stated that by May the architects
will have the plans ready for the
new addition and expansion. The
first unit of the hospital was built
In 1954 and the West Wing was
completed in 1961. Plans call
for facilities to have some 41
additional beds to the hospital
by next year.
In the balloting in the 12 pre
cincts reporting to The News last
night the voting was:
Precinct For Against
Covington 469 87
Cov. Mill 31 5
Georgia Bulldog Club
Is Organizing Here
A Bulldog Club organizational
meeting for all Georgia alumni
and interested persons is sched
uled for the Snapping Shoals REA
building, Tuesday January 24 at
7:30 p.m. Edgar Wood has been
spearheading plans for the club In
Newton County.
Bill Hartman of Athens, presi
dent of the Georgia Student Edu
cational Fund, Inc. (GSEF); Dan
Magill, publicity director for
Georgia athletics; and a member
of the Georgia coaching staff will
be at the meeting Tuesday. A
film of the highlights of the 1966
football season in which the Bull
dogs won nine games and lost
one, and then won the Cotton Bowl
championship over SMU 24-9,
will be shown and narrated at the
meeting.
Mr. Wood said that response
Viet Helicopter Crash
Kills Newton Soldier
PFC Raymond Jackson of Cov
ington was killed Sunday after
noon in a helicopter crash in Viet
Nam. The US Air Force has no-
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Oxford 62 25
Mansfield 9 28
Almon 26 26
Downs 17 10
Salem 40 11
Brick Store 17 13
Porterdale 88 33
Leguln 24 3
Gum Creek 23 19
Brewers 24 32
Total 830 292
Covington Civic
Chorus Plans
Spring Concert
The Covington Civic chorus
Is now beginning rehearsals for
Its Spring Concert to be pre
sented some time In April.
We welcome all former sin
gers back into the fold, and in
vite all other Interested and
capable singers to join us. There
are no auditions necessary for
membership.
We meet each Tuesday night
at 8:00 P.M, In the Fellowship
Hall of the First Methodist Chu
rch In Covington.
For further information,
please call Dr. Goodwin Tuck,
president, at 786-3517, or John
Austin, Director, at 786-6136.
to the local Bulldog Club has
been encouraging as some 40
members are already signed up
for the club. He stated that he
expected at least 100 members
for the Newton Club. He em
phasized that all persons inter
ested in college athletics are
Invited to the meeting Tuesday.
The year 1967-68 looks very
bright for Georgia football and
basketball. There are four home
games on the 1967 Bulldog sch
edule for the gridiron team-
Miss. state, South Carolina, VMI
and Auburn.
In basketball Coach Ken Rose
mond has an excellent crop of
freshman on the hardwood this
year. The frosh have not lost
a game this season and is pre
sently averaging over 100 points
per game.
tified his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mahlon Jackson of 613 Sanford
Street, Covington.
The Air Force Sergeant who
delivered the message to the
Jacksons in Covington Monday
afternoon did not say whether or
not the helicopter was shot down
over a battle zone. There were
nine soldiers aboard the chop
per and eight of the bodies have
been found.
Young Jackson entered the ser
vice in May of this year and was
shipped to the battle zone from
Mt. Vermont, New York. He had
been in Vietnam for about eight
weeks, his mother stated yes
terday.
PFC Jackson’s brother, Sgt. J.
W. Jackson was wounded in over
seas fighting in August and has
been a patient at Walter Reed
Hospital in Washington, D. C.
since that time. He recently
spent the Christmas holidays with
his parents in Covington.
The mother of PFC Jackson
said yesterday that Red Cross
officials and Air Force officials
would give her more details of
her son’s death in the immediate
future.
As far as known at the present
time, this is the first war casual
ty from Newton County. More
than 6,000 American soldiers
have been killed In the fighting
in Vietnam.