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Holifield Joins
Henson Soles Staff
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R. A. Holifield
Bill McDowell, manager of
Henson Furniture Company in
Covington, announced this week
that R. A. Holifield has joined
their sales department. Holi
field was previously employed for
10 years at Bibb Manufacturing
Company in Porterdale, and more
recently with Gordon FOxls Co.
Mr. Holifield and his wife and
daughter Rhoda live on Bonnell
Street In Oxford.
He is a member of the Oxford
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Resolution Adopted By
Oxford Town Council
The Town of Oxford is call
ing on the General Assembly and
Governor Ixjster Maddox to pro
vide “a significant share of pre
sent state tax collections to mun
icipalities” to help pay the rising
cost of running the city govern
ment. Cities and towns through
out Georgia are taking similar
action in an effort to retain
funds which Governor Maddox has
proposed to municipalities.
The Governor requested that
$3.7 million, above the current
$9.3 million cities in Georgia
are now receiving, be instated in
the 1967-68 budget. He asked
that $10.7 million be included
in the 1968-69 budget.
Oxford Mayor and Council to
day adopted a resolution stating
that municipalities of Georgia
are getting “a small and dis
proportionate share” of state
services and a “meager share
of state - aid” compared to
other states.
Also, according to the re-
Baptist Church, where he serves
on the Board of Deacons. He is
a member of Pace Lodge No. 558.
Mr. Holifield extends a cordial
invitation to his friends to visit
him at Henson Furniture Co.
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solution, cities and towns “are
preempted and limited by the
state constitution and by general
statute in major areas of re
venue.”
The Georgia Municipal Asso
ciation, which represents, the ci
ties and towns of the state, re
cently adopted a resolution com
mending Governor Maddox on his
plan to provide cities with a share
of the state collected sales tax
in an amount equivalent to one
half of one cent per year. GMA
also praised the Governor’s pro
gram to allocate the additional
$14.4 million during the coming
two years.
The resolution said: “The
Georgia Municipal Association
pledges its support to Governor
Lester G. Maddox in the ful
fillment of his program to help
municipalities with their fiscal
problems and to otherwise pur
sue programs to carry the state
forward into an even greater era
of progress and prosperity for
its people.”
Missed opportunity is the
price of total reliance on com
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Dr. Edmund C. Neuhas
Snow Scenes In Covington And Oxford
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AN ALL-DAY Snow Thursday in Covington created this scene at the snapping Shoals Electric Member
ship Corporation building on Emory Street. The snow started falling in Covington at 9:30 a. m. and
continued until 6:30 p. m.
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HAYGOOD AVENUE in Oxford Thursday afternoon took on a blizzard look as this photo was taken as
the snow continued to come down. This was the scene looking South in front of the Oxford Baptist
Church.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
What Has Happened
To The ’Golden Rule?’
Joseph Saia, district director
of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and
Georgia and supervisor of the
three-day circuit convention of
Jehovah’s Witnesses in States
boro, February 3-5, said it’s
under attack.
Saia said recent F.B.L reports
indicate that crime continues to
increase at an alarming rate. But
he’s more concerned with the
apathy of the people toward re
sponsibility to their neighbors.
“People stand by and watch
an elderly man or woman
beaten,’’ Saia said, “without
emotion or a desire to become
involved. They will oftentimes
fail to call the police for assis
tance.
“This lack of concern for ot
hers is now extending into other
facets of our lives,’’ he contin
ued. “People want to shift re
sponsibility for decisive action
to someone else, shirking these
obligations themselves. This
can be dangerous when an entire
society of people accept such an
attitude of complacency.”
Saia said there is true hap
piness in giving; in fact, more
than there is in receiving.
“Jesus Christ once said:
‘There is more happiness in gi
ving then there is in receiving.’
“But that rule, like the so
called GOLDEN RULE, only ap
plies if our giving is unselfish
and governed by wisdom.”
Saia quoted F.B.L chief J.
Edgar Hoover, who said recently
that there are increasing reports
of civilians attacking police. Hoo
ver said:
“Attacks in Los Angeles
have almost tripled in recent
years. Likewise, in New York,
incidents last summer were up
again. Records show 1,399
officers were assaulted during
the first eight months of the
year.”
“The evidence of mankind’s
hostility for law and order has
been defined by psychiatrists as
their disdain for discipline or
authority. This has placed many
people in the position of resis
tance to order,” he said.
“This breakdown of public dis
cipline had to follow abandonment
of Bible principles,” Saia said.
“These principles must govern
our lives to make us conscious
of our responsibilities to others.
It must be taught in the home,
however, to be successful.”
Saia said another problem is
lack of understanding, considera
tion and love of others. This lack
of empathy for other causes a
selfish outlook -a society adop
ting their own “Golden Rule”—
do it to others before they do
it to you.
“Empathy is defined as the
ability to take the place of the
other person, feel for them,”
Saia said. “But to feel for them
requires us to be capable of
much feeling. This places a heavy
responsibility on all.”
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Davis To Speak
At High Point
Church Sunday
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F. M. Davis
F. M. Davis, associate pas
tor of the Second Avenue Baptist
Church in Decatur, will be the
guest speaker at High Point Bap
tist Church Sunday evening, Feb
ruary 19, at the regular worship
hour of 7:00 P. M.
Mr. Davis is well-known for
his work in laymen’s revivals,
evangelism clinics, soul-winning
courses, and prison ministries
in Georgia. Once he asked to be
locked in a State Prison for a
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Thursday, February 16, 1967
Irving Dietz
Returns Home
From Hospital
Irving Dietz, prominent Cov
ington merchant and owner of
Dietz’ Women’s Apparel, was
permitted to return home from
Newton County Hospital, Sunday,
after a three and a half week
hospitalization precipitated by a
heart attack.
For the time being, his phy
sicians have restricted his priv
ilege of having visitors; but, his
condition is reported as good.
The Dietz’s many friends are
extending good wishes for his
rapid recuperation, and pleasant
convalescence.
full week so he could more ef
fectively witness for Christ to
the inmates there in a special
evangelistic effort. Mr. Davis
says his primary goal is to
challenge laymen to be soul win
ners.
Everyone is cordially invited
to hear Mr. Davis.
Foreigh steel imported into
the U. S. accounted for about 10
per cent of steel sales in Amer
ica during 1966.