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Whew! Never had so many calls
since the article about the Hos
pital Auxiliary "GALA EVENT”
. . .card party, at the Elk’s Club
on April 4th, 8 P.M. which is
county wide. Yes Siree! Your
neighbor is going to be there!
And. . .with bells on! Each Aux
iliary member is responsible for
selling one table at $1.25 each;
bringing one gift to cost not
more than $1.00; get a card table
to the Elk’s Club on the morning
of April 4th; get a double deck
of cards to Mrs. E. E. Callaway,
Legion Drive, April Ist. If it
is Impossible to get your table
to the club. . .then take it to Mrs.
R. Pat Campbell’s home on Davis
Street, on morning of the 4th of
April.
Sure there will be prizes ga
lore! Individual, table and door!
Oh, but it will be fun! Besides
all this, friends, you know that
old saying about “The More We
Get Together etc’’. . .well had
you stopped to think that we hardly
“have time” these days to really
know our next door neighbor?
Just think of the new friends
you will make of ladies and
their husbands who live, not a
block from you! Nicest of all
there is another saying: "Unto
the Least of these unto Me...”
The Father in Heaven said that!
And you know I’m one of the
“Least of these”. . .when I’m on
a sick bed at the mercy of my
physicians and nurses. . .and we
are not only going for our plea
sure. . .the main IDEA of the
whole affair IS TO MAKE MO
NEY FOR OUR HOSPITAL. . .
MONEY TO BUY FINER EQUIP
MENT EVERY MONTH. We have
one of the best staffed hospitals
in the State. . .and have some
of the finest equipment.. .we need
much more equipment. . .besides
some hospital beds, and other
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Miss Reeves Returns As
County Curriculum Director
Superintendent J. W. Richard
son announced this week that M’ss
Louise Reeves has accepted the
position of Curriculum Director
for the Newton County Schools
for the 1967-68 school term.
In executive session on March
7, 1967, the Newton County Bo
ard of Education elected Miss
Reeves to fill this position.
Miss Reeves has a previous
record of eleven years service
in Newton County in this capa
city. She did her internship
as Instructional Supervisor dur
ing 1950-51 in the local schools,
and continued in the position of
Curriculum Director until August
of 1961 when she joined the staff
of the College of Education at the
University of Georgia in Athens.
Miss Reeves came to Newton
Countv in 1950 from the Americus
Scout District
Meeting Wed.
At Porterdale
The Newton-Rockdale District
Boy Scout committee will hold
their regular monthly meeting
on Wednesday, March 29th at
12:15 with a luncheon at the
Porterdale Hotel. Howard Bro
oks, District Committee chair
man is urging all committee
members to be present at this
meeting. Many Important mat
ters are coming up that need act
ion on.
The meeting will adjourn at
1:30 promptly so that the after
noon will be free for each mem
ber to use as he might wish,
Mr. Brooks stated.
Oxford College Lectures Set
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OXFORD COLLEGE Faculty Lectures have been scheduled at Oxford
College of Emory University, with the first lecture set for March 29.
Shown, left to right are participants on the program: Lewis F.
Archer, Dr. Frederick J. Landt, Dr. Donald N. Broughton and Dr.
Hoyt P. Oliver.
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JOINT EASTER SERVICE AT SHARP FIELD
Basketball Banquet Tonight Honors Teams
Newton Cafeteria Is Scene Os
Program Starting At 7 P.M.
Fans Appreciation Basketball banquet, honoring the girls and boys
teams of Newton County High School, will be held tonight at the
NCHS Cafeteria at 7 o’clock. Trophy presentations to the individual
players who excelled on the hardwood during the past season will be
honored.
The NCHS girls record for
the 1966-67 season was 22-7,
and the Rams ended the season
with a slate of 29-5. Coach Tom
Wortman’s girls were finalists in
the overall Region BAA playoffs,
losing to Region champ Franklin
County 29-27. Coach Ronald
Bradley’s Rams lost in the state
AA tournament at the Alexander
Memorial Coliseum in the
quarter-final to Russell High 45-
41. The boys won their opening
game of the tourney over Cairo
45-42 in double overtime.
The MC of the program to
night will be Covington Mayor
Walker Harris, who is also a
past president of the Ram Boost
er Club. Banquet Director is
S. R. Campbell, Jr., and Mrs.
W. L. Dobbs will be in charge
of the decorations for the oc
casion. Mrs. Tom Wiley will
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Miss Reeves
City School System where she had
had extensive experience as both
an elementary and a high school
teacher. She received her B.S.
Degree from Woman’s College of
Georgia, the Master of Educat
ion Degree from Duke University,
and completed the Sixth Year
Program in Supervision at the
University of Georgia. She has
done additional graduate study at
Mercer University, Peabody Col
lege, Emory University, and the
University of Maryland. During
the summer of 1965 she was one
of 30 participants in the NDEA
Institute in Reading at the Uni
versity.
After two years with the Col
lege of Education at the Univer
sity of Georgia, Miss Reeves
“took off’’ a year to obtain first
hand experiencewithyoungchlld
ren of school age. In 1963-64
she taught a third grade at Boul
dercrest School in DeKalb Coun
ty. She speaks of this year as
one of invaluable and very rich
experiences and states that she
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supervise the preparation and
serving of the banquet meal.
Covington Elks Club Exalted
Ruler Jack McGiboney, Newton
Key Club President Chester Par
ker and Art Booth, a Ram Booster
Club officer, will award the var
ious trophies during the program.
Five trophies will go to Rams
selected for their performance
during the past year: Most Val
uable Player, Most Improved,
Best Effort, Best Defensive Pla
yer and Sportsmanship. Girls
awards are for: Most Valuable
Player, Most Improved, Best Ef
fort and Sportsmanship.
Cheerleaders will also be hon
ored during the program.
Special citations to players
who have been honored as team
members of Region and State
teams will also be made at the
banquet.
wasn’t absent or tardy one single
minute during the entire 195 day
school term.
For the past three years, 1964-
67, Miss Reeves has served as
Curriculum Director for the
Rockdale County Schools in Con
yers.
Her summers since 1950 have
been spent in graduate study,
teaching at the college level,
or in directing summer In-Ser
vice Education Programs for the
Georgia State Department of Ed
ucation. In addition to the two
years as a member of the Uni
versity of Georgia’s faculty for
the regular term, she has ser
ved on the summer school staff
at the University of Georgia, at
Emory, and at Georgia State
College.
Miss Reeves holds Life Pro
fessional 5 Year Teacher’s Cer
tificates for both Elementary and
High School, the 6 Year Life Pro
fessional Certificate in Supervi
sion, and has completed all re
quirements for the 6 Year Life
Professional Elementary Teac
her’s Certificate.
Ficquett First
Graders To
Be Registered
All parents of pupils expecting
to enter the first grade next Sep
tember at Ficquett School should
come to the school during the
month of March on any school day
from 8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. to
register and fill out the school
choice form as required.
The parents should bring the
birth certificate and know the
names and birthdates of all child
ren in the family under 16 years
old. After the school choice and
registration forms have been
completed the parents will be gi
ven a health record sheet to be
filled out in August to bring with
the child the first day of school
next fall.
Prospective first graders will
enjoy coming with parents to re
gister. They will be given the
opportunity to visit the first grade
rooms, the lunchroom, and get
acquainted with the building in
general.
Atlanta Chief s
Jerry Sachs Is
Kiwanis Speaker
Jerry Sachs, Public Relations
Director for the Atlanta Braves
and the Atlanta Chiefs, will be the
guest speaker at the Covington
Kiwanis Club meeting today
(Thursday) at the Davis House
Restaurant at 1 p. m. Mr. Sachs
will speak on Atlanta’s newest
professional sport, soccer, which
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967
W H c A
Alleluia, He has
A risen! Every voice rejoices
O . ■ proclaiming the
glory of God and His
■ jl great gift of Love
the fulfillment of His
promise to mankind.
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Only One Week
left For PYC
Nominations
As the April 1 deadline ap
proaches for entries of nominees
in the Parent Youth Council’s
“Mother, Father, NCHS and Jr.
High Boy and Girl of the Year’’,
organizations who have been
mailed forms, for their select
ions, are urged to return them
before the end of next week.
Trophies to be presented the
winning nominees at the Parent
Youth Council Annual Banquet,
have already been secured, and
will go on display, next week
in Ray Jewelers window.
An error in the list of those
selling tickets to the Council
Banquet, slated for 7:00 p.m.,
Thursday April 13, at Ficquett
Cafetorium, occurred in an ar
ticle in last week’s News. Mrs.
Jack Neely, Instead of Mrs. Ted
Neely, has tickets for sale to
the banquet. Others selling In
their respective communities
are: Miss Mae Hardman, Doug
Jolley, Sutton Hardy, Jerry Bray,
Mesdames A. E. Hays, Jr., J. B.
Spears, Jr., John Burson, Car
los Meyer, George Patton, Hugh
Sams, Venon Ison, Ed Robinson,
Henry Odum, Jr., Sam Gainer,
Leo Mallard, Donald Stephenson,
Jerry Aldridge and George Jol
ley.
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Temperatures in Covington
during the past week, according
to Jack Chapman, weatherman,
were as follows;
High Low
Wed. March 15 80 59
Thurs. March 16 71 35
Fri. March 17 60 30
Sat. March 18 50 24
Sun. March 19 57 27
Mon. March 20 60 38
Tues. March 21 73 48
Francis Tarkenton To Speak
At Rotary 'Top Ten Banquet’
Francis Tarkenton, quarterback for the New York Giants, will
speak to the Newton County Rotary Club’s annual program honoring
the top ten students in the graduating class of Newton County High
School. The special banquet, which is also a Ladies Night for the
Rotary Club, wHI be held at the Ficquett School Cafeterium on
Tuesday night March 28 at 7-.00. * » » ♦
Since the selection of the Top
Ten for 1967 were so close in
grades, there turned out to be
twelve students so honored. They
are; Glennis Elizabeth Bankston,
Arthur Ethredge Hays, 111, Doug
las Cannon Jolly, Chester Lanier
Parker, Jr., William David Par
ker, John Stephen Piper, Glenda
Faye Repetske, John Wayne
Rooks, Sheila Elaine Smith, Clar
issa Virginia Spears, Nona Dell
Spears, Joyce White.
The honored students, their
parents, and teachers will be
guests of the Rotary Club. How
ever, it was decided by the Rot
arians to open the banquet to
other relatives, friends, and the
general public so as to further
emphasize the honor to these de
serving students. Admission to
the event will be by ticket. In
terested persons may obtain tic
kets from any Rotarian at $3
each. Tickets must be purchased
In advance. Mr. Jack Christian,
Sargeant-At-Arms for the Rotary
Club may be contacted at the
Firestone Store on the Square
for further Information on tic
kets.
The speaker for the evening
is well known in this area. While
at Athens High School he came to
Covington several times playing
basketball, baseball and football
when Athens and Covington were
competing. He made all-state in
football and baseball, all-tour
nament in basketball, all-Amer
ica in football, and played tennis
during his four years at Athens
High School. He was co-captain
of the North squad all-star foot
ball team that played on Grant
Field in 1957.
In College he was quarterback
at the University of Georgia on
the 1957 undefeated freshman
team, and three years on the var
sity. His teams never lost to
Georgia Tech. Among the hon
ors he earned in college football
were All-state, All-Southern,
All-America, AP Back of the
Week following the sensational
Georgia win over Auburn in 1959,
the Most Valuable Back award
from the Atlanta Touchdown Club,
the Best Offensive Player award
in the Orange, and the Most Val
uable Player award in the post
college All-Star Hula Bowl in
Hawaii in 1960, and twice Aca
demic All-America Award in
1959 and 1960.
Covington’s Rotary Club brings
Francis Tarkenton as the speak
er in honoring the academic Top
Ten for 1967, as an outstanding
academic student in high school
and college himself. In high sch
ool he served on the student coun
cil for four years, as president
in his senior year, and was an
outstanding student academi
cally. In college he earned a B
average in the classroom and
was placed on the Academic All-
America football team for two
successive years, his junior and
senior years. He organized the
University of Georgia Chapter
of the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes, and has been very act
ive in organizing other units as
well as participating the nation
wide activities of this group.
Tarkenton has been recognized
as an outstanding speaker in ad
dressing large business, profes
sional, and educational groups
in many sections of America.
Last year he gave the address
at the Georgia Convention of Jay-
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Dr. John Tate Main Speaker
For 6:30 Sunrise Service
A community wide Easter Sunrise Service will be held at 6;30
a.m., Sunday March 26, at Newton County High School’s Sharp Field,
according to an announcement by Rev. E. Owen Kellum, Jr., presi
dent Newton County Ministerial Association. Dr. John B. Tate,
pastor of Allen Memorial Methodist Church, Oxford, will bring the
Easter Sunrise message.
In the event of rain, the sch
eduled services will be moved
into the auditorium of Newton
County High School.
Churches of Oxford, Starrs
ville, Newborn, Gun Creek,
Mansfield and Covington will be
among those joining in the com
bined services, which are spon
sored annuaUy by the Newton
County Ministerial Association.
In addition to Rev. Tate, Rev.
E. Owen Kellum, Jr., Covington
First Methodist Church; Rev.
Tom White, Covington Presby
terian; and Rev. A. G. Clemens
of Wesleyan Methodist Church
will participate in the program.
The Sunrise service is Inter
denominational; and all Christ
ians are invited to join in this
service commemorating the Re
surrection of Christ, on Easter
morning.
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EASTER SERVICE
AT FFA CAMP
The amphitheatre at the State
FFA Camp will be the setting
for Easter Sunrise Service on
Sunday, March 26, at 7:00 A.M.
The community is invited to par
ticipate in this traditional cele
bration. The Rev. Jim Luke,
pastor of the Newton Circuit,
will deliver the Easter message,
with Red Oak Methodist Church
serving as host for the occasion.
Special attention is also called
to the 11:00 A. M. worship ser
vice at Red Oak Church at which
time the Rev. Hoyt P. Oliver
will preach. The visiting preac
her, who is now on the faculty
of Oxford College, is a member
of the North Georgia Methodist
Conference, and recently recei
ved his doctorate at Yale.
The pastor also announces that
tonight, Maundy Thursday ser
vices will be conducted at Red
Oak with the celebration of the
cees In Macon, and this year he
gave the address to the graduat
ing class at the Air Force Aca
demy.
As long as there is available
space, the Covington Rotary Club
invites the public to share in
honoring Newton County High
School’s Top Ten graduates for
1967. Tickets are available thr
ough Rotarians.
FRANCIS TARKENTON, quarterback of the New York Giants of the
National Football League (NFL), will be the main speaker at the
Covington Rotary Club’s Annual Program Tuesday, March 28,
honoring the Top Ten Students of Newton County High School. The
banquet will be held at the Ficquett School Cafetorium at 7 P.M.
Tarkenton has been the QB for the Minnesota Vikings since that pro
team was organized in 1961. Recently he was traded to the New York
club. An All-American in both high school at Athens and as a
Bulldog at the University of Georgia, Francis is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Dallas Tarkenton of Oxford.
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Lord’s Supper at 7:30 P. M. the
public is Invited to take part in
this remembrance of Jesus’ last
fellowship with the disciples be
fore the crucifixion.
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A full schedule of worship op
portunities has been announced
for Gaithers, Lovejoy and Red
Oak Methodist Churches. Fol
lowing the 7:00 A. M. Sunrise
Service at the FFA Camp, Easter
Sunday activities include:
9:30 A. M. Morning Worship
at Gaithers.
11:00 A. M. Morning Worship
at Lovejoy.
11:00 A. M. Morning Worship
at Red Oak.
The services will be conducted
by Rev. Jim Luke, pastor, except
at Red Oak where Rev. Hoyt P.
Oliver will be the visiting preac
her.
The eleven o’clock service at
Lovejoy will include the sacra
ment of Baptism and the re
ception of new members.
♦* * *
The Julia A. Porter Memorial
Methodist Church will observe
Easter Sunrise with a service
in the church Sanctuary on Mar
ch 26, at 7;00 A.M.
Mrs. Leonard Standard will be
the guest speaker, and the pastor,
Rev. A. J. Bruyere, gives a cor
dial invitation for all to attend.
♦♦ * *
Sunrise services will be held
at Porterdale Baptist Church,
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Ed Hunt Is
Lions Speaker
Newton County Agent Ed Hunt
is the guest speaker for the Cov
ington Lions Ladies’ Night to
night at Henderson’s Restaurant
at 7:30 o’clock.
Before coming to Newton Coun
ty in 1958, Mr. Hunt was Assis
tant County Agent in Meriwether
and Pope Counties. He served
on the staff of Berry College for
five years and received both a
B.S. and a Master’s Degree from
the University of Georgia.
Mr. Hunt will show some sli
des and talk about his recent
trip to the National Association
of County Agents Convention held
in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he
was presented the National Dis
tinguished Service Award for
work as a County Agent and Act
ivities in Georgia Association of
County Agents.