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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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IELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publith.r
LEO S. MALLARD
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Newton County Parent Youth Council Plans Project
The announcement of plans to launch the “Newton
County Parents and Youth of the Year” project,
in a meeting notice of Newton County Parent Youth
Council, by its president, Major Venon Ison, is wel
comed throughout the county.
Since its organization in 1964, the Parent Youth
Council has been unequivocally dedicated to
strengthening those values essential to the best
Interests of parents, young people, the home,
school and community. Its efforts toward under
girding the high moral and social standards of
parents and youth, seeking to stem the tide of
moral retrogression, have been invaluable. A code
book of “Guidelines for Teens and Parents”, in
Out in Nevada there is a man we’d like to meet
sometime. His name is Roger Smith. He’s a
rancher. He’s pretty plain-spoken, this man Smith.
“Less than eight per cent of the American
people,” he says, “produce the food and fiber for
all the rest . .The cost of individual food items
in terms of labor required to purchase them show
a substantial reduction since 1947. For example,
an hour of labor today purchases about 70 per
cent more beef th'm then. . . .Higher prices for
meat have been noticeable to the consumer be
cause they have moved up from an extremely
low level. Current prices of beef cattle are
still much below the price levels of 15 years ago..”
A Department of Agriculture study shows, says
Smith, that the average housewife paid 17 per cent
more, and farmers and ranchers received 7 per
cent less in recent months, for the same kinds
and qualities of foods purchased in 1947.
“Some serious thought on the part of the house
wife today,” he said, “would lead her to discover
that the reason for the rise in the cost of food
stuffs has been her own demands for new processing
and packaging techniques, and expensive facilities
in supermarkets provided for her shopping comfort
and pleasure, such as air-conditioning, piped-in
music and convenience parking facilities.
“Due to their picketing demonstrations, the
It may be that even before the typesetter can finish
with these lines some new. bloody development will
have altered or reversed the situation in Red China.
Indeed the way tilings are happening on the other side
of the world the news may come before we can get
the paper out of the typewriter.
Nevertheless there are a couple of points that
need to be made. The first is about those Red
Guards. General Lin Piao is generally credited
with launching the Red Guard Movement. His ob
ject was to mobilize a force in support of his own
position and that of Mao Tse-tung, whom he as
pires to succeed. The question is: why did he not
choose the Young Communist League, the Young
Pioneers, the All-China Students’ Federation and
the All-China Youth Federation, all of which are
arms of the Chinese Communist Party? The answer
is, clearly, that he did not employ these existing
organizations because he did not control them, and
could not So he organized the Red Guards, instead.
That proved to be pretty stupid. Anybody can put
on a red arm band and become a Red Guard. The
result there are as many Red Guard groups as
there are aspring successors to Mao—or enemies
of Lin Piao. And that is why you hear that Red
Guards have attacked even Lin Piao. These aren’t
In this modern age when more and more persons
are dealt with as numbers rather than as human
beings, the individual still has a place the mechan
ical brain cannot fill.
Commenting on the importance of maintaining
individual relationships in business, Robert T.
Person, president of the Public Service Company
of Colorado, warns of some things the soulless
electronic devices cannot do. He says-. “As our
technology advances, we must never be blinded
by the glamour of sophisticated computers. . .
and the countless other wonders which may soon
It is probably safe to say that no University
in the United States has received such consistently
bad publicity as the University of California
at Berkeley, thanks to the antics of the Skid Row
scholars who infest the place. Actually, much of
this bad reputation is undeserved since many of
these kooks aren’t even students, including a few
who are billed as “student leaders.”
Indeed, one might liken them to fleas on a
dog, and the parallel doesn’t end with the fact that
they’re equally hard to get rid of.
However, we’re pleased to note that the Univer
sity seems to have changed its policy with regard
to these parasites. This was indicated by the
prompt and efficient action that was taken recently
when Berkeley’s bums tried some Hitler Youth
tactics on a few Navy recruiters who visited
the campus. On that occasion several of the bums
ended up in jail—properly de-greased and fumi
gated, we hope.
We trust that this no-nonsense policy will be
followed in another respect. Job recruiters from
A prominent businessman compares the strength
and well-being of various nations to illustrate the
impact of education: “For example, if endowment
with natural resources were the sole criterion,
Japan and Norway would be poor, which they are
not, while Brazil and Indonesia would be rich, which
they are not. If, as some of the opponents of
foreign investment allege, ‘colonial exploitation’
were the stumbling block to progress, Siam and
Abyssinia would be rich, which they are not,
while Canada and Australia would be poor, which
bthey are not. If lack of heavy industry is the
handicap, then Denmark and New Zealand, where
agriculture predominates, would be poor, which they
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A Cattleman Speaks
Turmoil In
No Substitute For "In Person”
The Berkeley Bums
Basis For Freedom
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which young people participated in drawing up;
chaperones, on call for various youth events;
sponsored socials; and many other tangible, and in
tangible, contributions are among its achievements.
The “Parents and Youth of the Year” project
stands out as a tribute to those who are striving
to hold high standards, sometimes against terrific
odds. In an era of sensationalism, when the world
at large seems intent upon dramatizing the negative
conduct of parents and youth, we heartily con
gratulate Newton County Parent Youth Council
for recognizing and honoring those, whose exem
plary character and standards help build a better
world, and give it better citizens.
housewives may cause the elimination of such
pleasant fads and frills. Grocery chains, after
taxes, make the lowest average profit of any major
urban industry—only 1.3 per cent. . .
‘ ‘We livestock producers.. .are already in des
perate financial straits, with our net income
declining by 18 per cent from 1947 to 1965,
while during the same time wages to all em
ployees in manufacturing industries increased by
113 per cent. Since 1948, the cattlemen’s total
production expenses have increased about 63 per
cent, whereas live weight cattle prices have de
creased 11 per cent from what they were 18 years
ago. In anybody’s language, this is known as ‘going
broke’. . .
“The Johnson Administration has been
trumpeting loudly about ‘truth in advertising’ and
‘truth in packaging’. It has been notably uncon
cerned about truth in government and the subject
of the true cause of the rising cost of living.
‘ ‘Government spending is in fact the true cause
of inflation.
“. . .Let us all join in a boycott of Big Govern
ment spending of our hard-earned tax dollars and
the dangerously extravagant legislation passed by
the last Congress.”
Every housewife can understand Mr. Smith’s
language. Let us all hope that Washington can,
too.
Red China
Red Guards who are out of hand. They are Red
Guards organized by competitors.
Finally: it has been whispered that Lin Piao is
Moscow’s preferred successor to Mao. Stalin’s
successors never really liked or trusted Mao. But
Lin Piao has a long history of closeness with
Moscow. He got his indoctrination there, in the
early 1920’5. Mao got his start in communism
in China. It is known that Lin was in the USSR for
medical treatment after having been wounded in
1938. For three years. It is widely reported that
he was an “observer’’ at the defense of Stalin
grad. When the Chinese Communists entered the
Korean War, in October 1950, Lin Piao was the
first commander of those forces. It has been re
peatedly alleged that he was wounded then and re
turned to the USSR for treatment. And in recent
months, Lin’s promiscuous expenditures to finance
Red Guard excursions have generated rumors that
he is Moscow-financed. Thus, the organized re
sistance against Lin and Mao has grown and grown.
To be sure, Moscow is moving heaven and earth to
have a Moscow man replace Mao. The tone of
Moscow’s press comments will tell us if the
Kremlin is winning or losing.
be commonplace. Our business will be--as it
always has been—based on the principle of people
serving people. Indeed, this concept will become
more important. Even today there are indications
that people, in an increasingly mechanistic world,
are placing higher and higher values on being
treated as individuals--as human beings--not as a
sequence of numbers in some vast computer
memory.”
In dealing with customers and employees, no
mechanical device can take the place of the “in
person” approach—appreciation, friendship and
understanding.
major industries show up at Berkeley and other
universities. They, too, have been prime targets
of the campus bums. After all, these recruiters
represent dirty, imperialist. Wall Street capital
ists. Further, they’re fascist beasts whose com
panies make hardware that might be used against
the Communists in Vietnam and elsewhere. And
as though that isn’t bad enough, they signify work,
and that’s not for these proletarians.
So the non-toiling troublemakers on campus have
done everything possible to discourage the job
recruiters. And in some instances they have
succeeded. As a result some bright and ambitious
young men and women have been deprived of job
opportunities.
Somehow it seems to us that somebody’s civil
rights are being violated and that state and local
authorities should move in to protect them.
Or, maybe the time has come for the good stu
dents on campus—the great majority—to take some
indicated steps. Such as giving the bum’s rush to
the Berkeley-type bums.
are not. If high population density drags down
living standards, the Netherlands and Japan should
be poor, which they are not. If capital for invest
ment is the required ingredient, then Kuwait and
Venezuela would be rich, which they are not.”
Then this businessman asks, rhetorically, ‘ ‘Could
a main factor be a high level of education spread
widely over the population? If it is, the United
States should be very rich, which it is; Western
Europe should be fairly rich, which it is; Latin
America should be fairly poor, which it is; and
Africa should be very poor, which it is.”
This is an impressive argument in behalf of
unqualified support of education.
MABLE SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OCR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
THE MESSIAH AND HIS MISSION
Devotional Reading: John 15:
1-11.
Memory Selection: Whoever
would save his life will lose it;
and whoever loses his life for
my sake, he will save it. Luke
9:24.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Christ’s Mission and Ours.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Christ’s Mission and Ours.
The word “Messiah” means
"anointed one.” The Greek form
of this Hebrew word is Christos.
Originally it applied only to per
sons high in the priestly hier
archy and to the ancient patri
archs. But after the time of
David (whom God had assured that
the throne and the scepter would
remain In his family forever),
the title referred to descendants
of David’s royal house.
Later the term “Messiah”
came to mean a deliverer who
would rescue his people Israel.
In the beginning people believed
that Jesus was this "son of Da
vid” and so hailed him as he rode
into Jerusalem five davs before
his crucifixion (Matt. 2: 9-15).
One of the things that caused
the multitude—who In the beginn
ing had received Jesus with en
thusiasm—to forsake him was
that he appeared to them a shock
ing disappointment. They felt
that the Messiah would rid their
land of the hated Roman, who
many years before the birth of
Christ had taken over that sect
ion of the world. When the Jews
realized that Jesus was in no
sense a military figure and that
the kingdom he had in mind was
not an earthly kingdom, they lost
faith in him and were easily
persuaded by the scribes and
Pharisees to cry out for his cru
cifixion.
Previous to the events set forth
In our printed lesson text, Jesus
had performed a series of as
tounding miracles. He had cast
demons out of the Gadarene de
moniac, had stilled a storm which
threatened his life and that of
his companions. Jairus, a ruler
of the synagogue, besought Jesus
to come to his house and heal
his only daughter who "lay a
dying”. A woman with “an
issue of blood for twelve years”
touched his garment and was
healed.
This brings us to the beginn
ing of our lesson text, for we
From
Representative Ballard
The second week of the Legis
lative Session was spent bringing
about far more Legislative act
ivity than I had expected and as
it turned out there was far more
work done in that, the second week
of the Legislature, than I had
experienced In the years of ten
ure In that body. This of course
can be attributed to the organ
ization and leadership being ex
ercised in the House of Repres
entatives at this time and to the
experienced Representatives who
are serving there.
Most of the Legislation trans
acted last week was of what we
call “House Cleaning Bills”
which is Legislation designed to
clean up mistakes and errors
which have been made by prev
ious Legislators. The only major
legislation coming before the
House last week was the “Anti-
Eavesdropping Rill”. This was a
bill which would eliminate wire
tapping and eavesdropping on
conversations of others. There
was some dangerous sections in
this bill and through my amend
ment and that of Representative
Harold Murphy’s of Haralson
County, these undesirable sect
ions were deleted and the bill
was passed as amended.
One of the major concerns
last week was trying to circum
vent the Attorney General’s rul
ing which ruled that State funds
could not be spent for the lunch
room programs. This of course
is a great blow to our lunch
room programs throughout the
State of Georgia and unless we
can find a manner of getting
around this ruling, our lunch
room programs will suffer. We
are hoping that we can get these
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MOON MATTER MAYBE
DIFFICULT TO TEST
IT MAY BE far more difficult
to measure the physical prop
erties of moon matter than earth
matter. Columbia University
scientists believe the materials
that astronauts bring from the
moon may not be in good con
dition. They explain that a geo
logist working with earth mater
ials is able to select ideal rocks
for testing. The preciously limit
ed amount of material an
astronaut will be able to gather
jp from the moon’s surface may
be in the form of small pebbles
or even fine dust.
ADDING carbon dioxide to wa
ter makes It “wetter.’ More
important, reports Cardox, Chi
cago, it neutralizes alkalinity
and prevents the formation of
harmful limestone deposits on
THE COVINGTON NEWS
read that after feeding the five
thousand Jesus withdrew to be
alone in prayer.
Jesus was profoundly, fun
damentally, essentially a man of
prayer. But why, we ask our
selves, did he need to pray?
He was on such close terms
with his Heavenly Father that he
needed only ask for anything and
It would be given to him.
If Jesus prayed continuously
(once throughout the night; again,
until the sweat rolled down over
his face like drops of blood), how
much more Is prayer necessary
for his followers.
Jesus asked his disciples an
Important question: “Whom say
the people that I am?” What
difference would It make? If he
was genuine and sincere, It would
seem to make little difference
what people thought of him. But
Jesus knew that the whole course
of his future ministry would de
pend upon his reception by his
contemporaries.
His disciples answered that
some believed him to be the rein
carnation of John the Baptist or
Ellas (Elijah); “and others say,
that one of the old prophets Is
risen again.” In fact, Jesus
had made a remark (Matt. 17:
10-13) which might well have
led them to believe that he was
the reincarnation of someone
from the past. Elijah Is come
first indeed, Jesus averred. “But
I say unto you, That Elias (Eli
jah) is come already, and they
knew him not. . .Then the dis
ciples understood that he spake
unto them of John the Baptist.”
There are people today who
maintain that It makes little or
no difference who Jesus was.
He was the best man that ever
lived, the greatest by all mea
surements, humanity’s teacher
towering above all others, the
worker of many good and won
derful deeds. But It does make a
difference who this Jesus was.
It Is undoubtedly the teaching of
the New Testament that this Je
sus was God incarnate, that is,
God in the flesh.
Had the church not held a higher
view of Jesus which maintained
that he was the very person and
power of God working among men
for their salvation, Christianity
would never have become a re
demptive and world religion. Je
sus Christ Is not just our Mas
ter and Great Teacher; he Is our
Saviour.
funds to the local Boards of
Education through their M & O
(maintenance and Operations)
Budget and allow them thus to
convey it to our lunch room pro
grams. If this falls, our school
lunch rooms will be in trouble.
We also introduced a constitut
ional amendment to allow the
State to contribute to the lunch
rooms but it will be 2 years be
fore this can go into effect. I
wish to assure our Newton County
parents, teachers and lunch room
personnel that I along with the
entire General Assembly am
doing everything possible to re
medy this unfortunate situation.
Several bills were entered last
week to aid counties in several
fields. One was HB #39 which
would reduce Newton County’s
cost for forest fire protection
from .047 to .04 cents per acre
in 1967-68 and from .063 to
.04 cents in 1968-69.
The bill to freeze the charge
back, that is to say, the percent
age of money the county is re
quired to pay toward local school
effort. It has been felt that
the acceleration from 15% to 20%
in 5 years Is too great an ac
celeration for the advalorem tax
base.
The House and Senate recessed
on Friday for 3 weeks for the
committees to draft the Biennium
• Budget and Re-Apportionment
plans for the House and senate.
The House and senate will go
back into Session on February
13, 1967, to complete the 1967
regular Session of the Legis
lature.
It now appears that we will be
in a special session this spring
to carry out Re-Apportionment.
pumping equipment. Irrigation
water treated with CO2 penetrates
faster and deeper, making more
water available to deep-rooted
plants. The limestone build-up
on pumping equipment is elimin
ated because the CO2 converts
the mineral to soluble calcium
bicarbonate.
PHOTONS, tiny “packets” of
energy emitted from radioactive
and light sources, are being used
with accuracies previously un
attainable to measure changes
in human bone mineral. Medical
physicists at the University of
Wisconsin are using the technique
to evaluate treatment of osteo
porosis, a bone demineralizing
disease common in elderly
people. Changes in bones caused
by such diseases can now be
detected quicker than with prev
ious techniques.
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The
Legislelter
By Glenn McCullough
(GFA Executive Manager)
The full bodies of the Georgia
House and Senate began a three
weeks recess Monday during
which the Appropriations Com
mittees of the House will make
an intensive study of Governor
Lester E. Maddox $1.6 billion
budget for the next two fiscal
years.
Floor sessions of the Legis
lature will be resumed February
13 and continue for five weeks,
making a total of 10 weeks for the
entire session—the longest in re
cent history. Then around April
1 Governor Maddox will call the
legislators back Into special ses
sion to carry out a Federal court
directed reapportionment of both
House and Senate, which must be
accomplished before a May 1
deadline.
Rep. James M. (Sloppy) Floyd
of Trion is Chairman of the 50-
member House Appropriations
Committee while Senate Lamar
R. Plunkett of Bowdon is chair
man of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, which will receive
the bill after the House has acted
on it.
Observers around the Capitol
believe that the $1.6 billion ap
propriations bill will emerge
from the two committees without
any major slashes although un
doubtedly there will be additions
and deletions In a number of In
dividual items. Chairman Floyd
has said his group will go over
the bill with a fine-toothed comb,
looking for any "fat” that maybe
melted from it.
The main battle over the bill
Is expected to be waged by par
tisans of the University System
of Georgia who will attempt to
restore all or part of the $lO
million Governor Maddox cut
from the original estimates of
former Governor Carl E. Sanders
which was earmarked to Improve
the quality of teaching In the
system — meaning the employ
ment of more professors and
better salaries for those now on
faculties.
It was made clear at a meet
ing of the Board of Regents of
the University System last
Thursday that a major fight will
be waged for restoration of these
funds. Governor Maddox attend
ed the meeting.
While only the House Appropri
ations Committee will be in ses
sion officially during the next
three weeks, many members of
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee are expected to sit in
as observers. However, they
will not receive the $25.00 per
diem to be paid House members.
J^hen legislators return Feb
ruary 13 they will find a mass
of legislation awaiting their at
tention in addition to the appro
priations bill. Through last Wed
nesday night a total of 111 bills
and 38 resolutions had been in
troducted in the House, and many
of the legislators will use their
vacations to perfect other bills
which will be thrown into the hop
per immediately after the Legis
lature convenes again.
So far action has been taken
on only a few bills, but some
of them are significant.
Last week the House passed
a bill originally sponsored by
Rep. J. Robin Harris of DeKalb
County and reported favorably
by the Judiciary Committee, of
which he is chairman, to modify
Georgia’s “face your accuser”
law which gives preferential
treatment to city and state of
ficials whose alleged wrong
doing is under investigation by a
grand jury.
Under terms of the Harris bill
these officials still may appear
before the grand jury with an at
torney, hear the evidence against
them and present a defense, which
a private citizen can not do. But
they no longer will be allowed
to cross-question witnesses, nor
can they be present when the jury
votes on whether to return an in
dictment.
Another bill passed by the
House last Thursday would make
unauthorized snooping and so
called “electronic bugging” a
crime in Georgia. Designed to
halt the Increasing invasion of
privacy, the legislation, which
passed the House 131-61, was in
troduced by Rep. Elliott M. Le
vitas of District 118, Rep. Wil
liam Howell of District 86 and
others.
Under terms of the bill the
employment of any device to lis
ten to or record the private con
versations of others was declar
ed an invasion of the “right of
privacy”. Legal penalties are
imposed on anyone intentionally
listening to or recording any con
versation in a private place or by
telephone or telegraph.
A bill introduced in the Senate
by Senator M. McKinley (Mac)
Conway of District 41 would make
it unlawful to possess fire bombs
or so-called “Molotov cocktails”
—gasoline in a bottle equipped
with a wick for igniting it. The
Senator explained his purpose
was to prevent the use of these
weapons by mobs.
Legislators may set up a pen
sion fund for their own benefit.
One is provided in a House bill
(No. 84) introduced by Rep. Paul
E. Nessmith of House District
64 and others. Legislators would
pay in $252 annually and after
eight years or more of service
be able to retire on pension at
the age of 60 provided they were
no longer members of the Legis
lature or holding a state job.
Service in other state positions
and up to five years in the Arm
ed Service or National Guard
would be counted in estimating
retirement pay.
In Wednesday morning’s At
lanta Constitution a front page
story told that Governor Maddox
is arranging an official visit for
Alabama Governor Lurleen Wal
lace and her husband, George.
The couple will be Invited to
address the Georgia Legislature.
It seems to me that the Le
gislature of Georgia has enough
problems on its hands this session
with business that Is vital t^o
Georgia without our taxpayers
having to pay the salaries of Le
gislators while they celebrate
“George Wallace Day” at the
State Capitol to satlsfty the de
sires of Governor Maddox.
Georgia has made too much
progress in racial adjustment
and has created a far too im
pressive image as the leading
state in the South to allow our
State Capitol to become the stom
ping ground and heralding plat
form for figures of defiance to
authority, whoever they may be
and from whatever state they may
come.
The last thing that the people
of Georgia need is to be branded
as “Wallacltes.” If Alabama
wants Governor Mrs. Wallace as
its Chief-of-State, and its fa
vorite son George Wallace to be
President, that’s fine, but we
humbly beg Governor Lester
Maddox to spare Georgia and her
people the black eye of being
in the ranks of the “Wallace
For President” move in 1968.
By
Rev. David Gullett
Pastor
Bethany Presbyterian Church
Covington, Georgia
“Draw near to God and He will
draw near to you.” (James 4:8)
God just seems so far away
from me. Can I really know
God as a living person? Where
is God? Many times the ability
to know the living presence of
God is questioned. Yet through
out the Bible and Church history,
men have testified to the living
Christ that they knew and served.
Some people do not know God.
Some have never known His pres
ence. They have never come to
Him. You could be standing in
the vicinity of a beautiful mount
ain and yet never see it. Why?
Because you might be standing
with your back to the mountain.
You would have to turn toward
the mountain before you would
see it and be able to come to it.
There are persons today (you
may be one of them) who ex
claims that you do not know God
nor see Him. The reason is that
you have never turned to Him
through His Son Jesus Christ.
All you have to do is to come to
Jesus Christ believing He is the
Son of God and trusting in His
work on the Cross to save you.
When you do this you will see
and know that God is alive and
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M Says . . .
A story is told of a group of
Scotch ministers meeting to dis
cuss the problem presented by
the biblical command to “pray
without ceasing.” They met in
the home of one of the group
who had a faithful old house
keeper who was like one of the
family.
Seated around the tea table
they continued their discussion.
After a while, the Master of the
house noticed a quislcal smile
on the face of the old servant
as she waited on the table, and
turning toward her he asked;
“What do you see funny about
this, Mary?” To which Mary
replied:
“I think it strange that you
learned Ministers should con
sider so difficult a thing that
seems so simple to me! ”
Knowing her deep devotional
spirit her Master asked her to
explain what she meant, and she
replied:
“When I awake in the morning
and see the light of a new day
I pray: “Let the light of Gospel
be shed abroad in my life to-
State Tax On Gasoline Is Deductible
ATLANTA — If you Itemize
your federal Income tax return,
a deduction can be claimed for
state tax on gasoline, the Pet
roleum Council of Georgia re
minded today.
“Georgians pay 6.5 cents per
gallon in state tax on gasoline,
but the Internal Revenue Service
allows the taxpayer who item
izes a return to deduct this from
his personal income tax pay
ment,” PCG Executive Secretary
Eric Holmes Jr., explained.
“For instance, a Georgia car
owner who drove 10,000 miles
Thursday, January 26, 1967
Please Gov. Maddox,
Spare Georgia From
A Wallace Alliance
BY: Leo S. Mallard
In the summer of 1964thepro
gressive administration of Go
vernor Carl Sanders refused to
let the Legislature be used as an
audience for the ambitious
George Wallace as he started
politlcing for President. Gover
nor Sanders refused to let Wal
lace appear on the grounds that
the Georgia Legislature was no
place for a political speech for
the Presidency.
Now Governor Maddox admits
that he had asked Rep. Dorsey
Mathews of Moultrie to introduce
the resolution in the House ex
tending. the invitation to speak to
then Gov. Wallace in 1964, Now,
as then, my feeling Is that no
interest of Georgia can in any
way be served by the appear
ance of George Wallace before
the Georgia Legislature.
Surprisingly to many, Gover
nor Maddox has gotten his ad
ministration off to a pretty good
start, but his admiration for a
fellow politician should not cloud
his sense of duty to Georgia as
he pledges to move the state for
ward.
George Wallace making a
speech before the Georgia Le
gislature can only smear our
state In the eyes of the nation.
We don’t need him in Georgia
and people who are out front
in building a prosperous and pro
gressive Georgia don’t want him
here, especially in our State
Capitol.
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that you can have a living re
lationship with His Son, Jesus
Christ. Turn and come near to
God.
The same truth is true for the
Christian. The Christian is to
live continuously in the presence
of God. Yet many do not. Many
times the reason is that they
have not drawn near to God. we
may feel as though God has for
saken us yet we have not come
to Him. We draw near to Jesus
Christ when we study and medi
tate on the Scriptures. How
many times have you heard the
Lord speaking to you through
the revealed Word? We draw
near to Jesus Christ and know
His presence as we spend time
talking to Him in prayer. You
can experience the presence of
the living God as you talk to
Him. We draw near to the living
Christ as we fellowship and wor
ship together with other born
again Christians. As Christ
dwells in us and others, we can
share His presence as we share
with one another.
Jesus Christ said, “I will never
leave you nor forsake you”, and
“Lo I am with you always”.
This is His promise to Christ
ians. He is always with us.
We may be walking as those two
did on the road to Emmaus with
Christ yet not knowing He is
near us. We must draw near to
Him that we might KNOW Him.
day.” When I take my bath I
pray: “Lord, wash away my
sins.” When I dress myself I
pray: “Lord clothe me with the
robe of thy righteousness.” When
I light the fire in the stove, I
pray: “Lord kindle in my heart
the fire of thy love.” When I
eat my breakfast I pray: “Lord
feed me with the bread of life.”
When I drink my tea, I pray:
“Lord satisfy my thirst with the
living water.” When I scrub
the floor, I pray; “Lord wash
me and I shall be whiter than
snow.” when I read my morn
ing Bible lesson I pray: “Lord
teach me that man lives not by
bread alone, but by every word
that comes from thee.” When I
walk out into the garden,<l pray:
“Lead me in the paths of right
eousness for thy name’s sake.”
And so on through my work for
the day, what ever I do, I ask
that He grant me a like spiritual
experience, so I pray calmly
without ceasing.
Let us all try that for one day,
and see how it answers the prob
lem
last year is entitled to a $47
deduction for state tax paid on
gasoline,” said Holmes. “The
driver who logged 15,000 miles
can claim a S7O deduction, and
one who drove 20,000 miles is
allowed a s9l deduction. This
is a valid deduction of which
all automobile owners should be
advised.”
Detailed information is in
cluded in the 1967 tax informat
ion brochure and complete in
structions may be obtained from
the local IRS office, Holmes
added.