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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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(ELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publiihor
LEO S. MALLARD
Attisfant to Pvbliihar
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Each day brings reports from Red China telling
of rebellion, terror, mass murder and a country
slipping into anarchy. Schools are closed, food is
scarce, railroads are not operating, industries are
• closed, strikes are rampant, army units fight
against Mao, one-time party leaders are being ar
rested, suicides are common, and thousands of re
fugees are fleeing the terror.
As Mao Tse-tung loses control his responses
become wilder. No one is safe from his purges.
He created the Red Guards because he didn’t
trust his army, the police, the Communist Party
itself, or the other leaders to support his plans.
Recently, the Red Guards have stopped attacking
old people who remember pre-Communistci viliza
•tion, burning books and humiliating bureaucrats.
They have turned their terror on the foreign em
bassies in Peiping. Embassies are regarded as
sanctuaries in all civilized countries. Not so in
Red China. The French and even the Communist
bloc embassies have come in for the worst treat
ment. The de Gaulle friendship for Red China, and
the political solidarity of the other Communist
countries have not saved them from the ravages
of the Red Guards.
A French official and his wife were dragged from
That giant parade in New York City on May 13
was a fantastic success. For eight-and-a-half
hours, New Yorkers paraded in “support of our
men in Vietnam”. A couple of newspapers coun
ted the paraders and recorded that 75,000 Ameri
cans marched in the parade. A great show.
A few days later, the Welfare Commissioner for
New York City announced an experimental “incen
tive” program to induce welfare recipients in the
city to take jobs, even part-time jobs. And, he
said, there are presently some 650,000 persons
in New York City receiving some form of assis
tance.
Imagine parading those 650,000 down Fifth Ave
nue, welfare checks waving! If they could be in
duced to march at the enthusiastic pace of the
Vietnam supporters, it would take eight-and-a
half days to parade them all by a reviewing stand.
According to our almanac there are only 14 cities
in the United States with a population of more than
650,000 (Dallas. Boston^ San Francisco^ Milwaukee,
St. Louis, Washington, Cleveland, Houston, Balti
more, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago
and New York). Yet New York City alone has
650,000 persons receiving some form of welfare
assistance. There are 8 states in this Union with
less than 630,000 pupofttion (New Hampshire’,-Ver»’
mdnt, North Dakota, Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada,
Alaska and Hawaii).
Drug Official Speaks As C.of C.,
10 New Members Are Welcomed
A leading pharmaceutical of
ficial enlightened the members
of the Covington-Newton County
Chamber of Commerce Monday
on the research of miracle drugs
at the club’s monthly meeting at
the Teen Can building. Also 10
new members of the local C. of
C. were announced at the meet
ing by Vice-President Hugh St
eele, who presided In the ab
sence of President Grady Cole
man.
Two of the new members were
present for the meeting. They
were Dr. Robert Faulkner and
Kenneth Davis of Davis Phar
macy. Others who recently be
came members of the C. of C.
are: Mrs, Betty Mclntosh of
Hydrospray Automatic Car Wash;
L. A. Brunson of Georgia Power
Company; W. B. Collett of First
Citizens Bank; Jack Morgan of
Morgan Grading Company; Frank
Christian of Christian Paint Cen
ter; Grady Hubbard of State Farm
Insurance; Jerry McCullough of
McCullough Electric Company;
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their car in Peiping and subjected to threats and
insults in freezing weather for eight hours. The
Soviet embassy was placed under siege for two
weeks, and finally the Russians have removed their
women and children from the country. The Red
Guards attacked them on their way to the airport
and refused to allow the plane to leave for eleven
hours.
All of this raises an interesting question. Sup
pose we had recognized Red China last year, as a
group of professors and friends of Red China pro
posed? Suppose we had granted diplomatic reco
gnition, in the interest of trade and peaceful
relations? Had the administration bowed to these
demands, we would have embassies and consulates
in China now. Doubtless these would be under
attack by the Red Guard hordes. Our diplomats,
and their families, would be in physical danger,
terrorized, or dead. Certainly the people of the
United States would not passively accept such out
rages. Indeed, we might even be at war with Red
China had we listened to the “experts” who in
sisted we recognize Mao. How fortunate that the
administration resisted the Red China Lobby.
Red China has had a political and mental break
down. Will it now commit suicide?
200 Years Ago
About now you’re heaving a sigh and being glad
that this is New York City’s problem. And we have
some news for you. The New York City Welfare
Department budget is $912 million. The city puts
up $275 million of that. The Federal Government
and the State of New York put up the balance. The
Federal Government entry means you—and me.
Commissioner Ginsberg estimated that there
were 120,000 employable heads of families among
those 650,000 welfare check recipients. And this
in a town where employment agencies literally are
going out of business because they can’t find wor
kers to place in jobs.
Back in the 18th century, Great Britain had on
its statute books what were known as the “Poor
Laws.” They weren’t very successful, maybe
because the administrators were not paid fancy
salaries. One of our diplomats of the day, old
“Penny saved is a penny earned” Benjamin Frank
lin wrote of the Poor Laws:
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor
is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading
them out of it... I observed.. .that the more pub
lic provisions were made for the poor, the less
they provided for themselves, and of course be
came poorer. And on the contrary, the less was
dene -fer them, the more they did for themselvas,-
and became Hcher.”>
That was 200 years ago, in 1766.
Lou Karman of Hercules Com
pany; and Mrs. Hugh Harris, lo
cal Distributor of Standard Oil
Company.
Three visitors were present
for the Monday meeting. They
were Frank Malcom, Allen De-
Loach and Lynn Maxwell.
Sam Ramsey of the Downtown
Merchants Parking Lot Com
mittee, gave a report on the st
atus of the two parking lots for
the center of Covington. He said
that he believed that the city
would have the two lots ready
sometime in August.
PFIZER SPEAKER BRIEFS
GROUP ON PROGRESS IN DRUG
RESEARCH
Recent findings about the ch
emistry of cell life and repro
duction have stimulated "a feel
ing that the drug industry Is on
the edge of pharmaceutical
breakthroughs which will make
Its past discoveries look small,”
a representative of the Pfizer La-
MABLE SESSIONS DENNIS
Atsocixt* Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
AtMcixf* Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, at
mail matter of the Second
Class.
boratories division of Chas. Pfi
zer & Co., Inc., told a meeting
of the Newton County Chamber
of Commerce Monday.
The group was addressed on
“Pharmaceutical Research: Its
Performance and Its Promise
for the Future” by Manely Gain
es, professional sales represen
tative. Lanier Hardman introdu
ced Mr. Gaines.
Mr. Gaines Is a member of Pf
izer’s national Speakers Bureau
and has been with Pfizer since
1962. An alumnus of Mercer
University, Bachelor of Arts De
gree In Science,majoring in ch
emistry and biology he is cur
rently a resident of Decatur.
Molecular biology, he said, has
given medical researchers brand
new leads Into the difficult areas
of birth defects and cancer. Ex
perimental work In animals with
viral Infections has raised "the
possibility that in the future we
may be made Immune not just to
specific virus diseases, but to
many different kinds of viruses
with but a single treatment.”
The prospect of startling new
pharmaceutical breakthroughs
comes on top of many astonish
ing gains made in recent years,
he said. "About three out of
four drugs in use today were not
even known 15 years ago.*’
He traced the dramatic death
rate reductions which antibiotics
and other modem drugs have
made possible among those who
contract such diseases as rheu
matic fever, Influenza, and tu
berculosis. He also recounted
the history of highly successful
community-wide polio prevention
programs resulting from develo
pment of the Salk and Sabins va
ccines, and cited the personal,
social and economic benefits st
emming from use of tranquil
izers and psychic energizers In
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
PETER AND THE GENTILES
Devotional Reading: Acts 10:
34-43
Memory Selection: God our
Saviour • . . desires all men to
be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim
othy 2:3-4.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
God Has No Favorites
Young People-Adult Topic:
Salvation for All Men
It takes a positive exercise
of one’s imagination to be able
to reconstruct the situations un
der which the Christian Church
came into being and had Its first
growth. Jesus was a Jew, and
Indeed a loyal one, for he de
clared that he had come not to
destroy the law but to fulfill
It.
He went back to the original
meaning of the law as the im
plementing of God’s love among
men, extracted therefrom the
moral and spiritual principles
involved, and applied these to
living situations.
The original apostles were,
of course, all Jews. Out through
the Mediterranean world, how
ever, congregations were made
up of both Jews and Gentiles.
In their missionary endeavors
the apostles, particularly Paul,
made it a point to direct their
efforts first to groups of Jews
and later to include Gentiles.
The word “Gentile” comes from
a Hebrew word gol, and, in the
New Testament, from the Greek
word ethnos. These two words
simply meant “nation.” The
Jews, as God’s chosen people,
regarded themselves as being on
one side and the “nations,” or
Gentiles, as being on the other
side.
The Christian Church is, and
always has been, confronted with
serious problems as it has at
tempted to put its teachings into
practice and adapt them to con
tinually changing conditions. In
the twentieth century we find
ourselves in the midst of this
process of adaptation. We are
continually asking ourselves what
the Christian gospel has to say
with reference to the problems
of war, social justice, and chang
ing standards of conduct.
In the decades following the
crucifixion and resurrection,
however, Christ’s followers were
confronted with the problem of
what to do about Gentiles (non-
Jews) who accepted the Christian
faith and joined the Christian
Church. Some held that all Gen
tile converts should be required
to accept Jewish customs, such
as" circumcision afid laws regard
ing clean and unclean food. Ot
hers claimed that faith in Christ
was sufficient to make one a
Christian.
The latter concept finally pre
vailed, but not without great str
uggle. Today’s lesson tells of
one of the more Important con
tests in which Peter (head of the
apostolic group) had to justify his
actions before his Christian as
sociates.
“And the apostles and breth
ren that were in Judea heard that
the Gentiles had also received
the word of God.”
This should have been good
news, but because it Involved a
profound change of religious cus
tom it posed questions which thr
eatened to split the Church into
contending bodies. Jesus had
commissioned his disciples to
go forth "and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of
treatment of the mentally ill.
The Pfizer speaker noted that
total U. S. drug Industry res earch
Investment for 1966 was ever
S4OO million, and that a majority
of his own company’s $25 mil
lion research and development
budget for 1967 will be spent on
drug studies.
“Drug research is still one of
the riskiest enterprises known
to man,” he said. “It takes an
average of five years and more
than $5 million to develop a drug
to the point of marketing it, and
even after it gets on the market,
it Is often made quickly obsolete
by a new drug.”
It is understandable, he point
ed out, that the pharmaceutical
industry is anxious to maintain
progress-sparking Incentives af
forded by the traditional U. S.
patent system. This system,
he said, gives the “drug manu
facturer assurance that the time
and money spent on developing
a new drug will be to some ex
tent protected.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost: teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever
I have commanded you” (Matt.
28:19-20). Many of the Jews
who had embraced Christianity
undoubtedly would have prefer
red to have the new Christian
Church remain one hundred per
cent Jewish in every respect.
Were not the Jews God’s chosen
people? Therefore, in the great
est revelation God had made of
Himself—namely, in the person
and ministry of Jesus Christ—
the Jews should lay down the laws
concerning the future growth of
the church.
Henry Odum 111
Gets Quality
Salary Raise
W. Henry Odum 111, formerly
of Covington, and now residing
in Alexandria, Virginia has been
awarded a Quality Salary In
crease by the National Oceano
graphic Data Center, Washington,
D. C. Under the Federal Salary
Reform Act of 1962, this award
is given to federal employees in
recognition of high quality per
formance above that ordinarily
found in the type position con
cerned.
Mr. Odum is employed as an
Oceanographer specializing in
the retrieval of oceanographic
data and information from com
puterized systems. The recom
mendation for this award reads
in part, “Mr. Odum has repeat
edly demonstrated his willing
ness and ability to that extra ef
fort, to provide not only the
Information requested, but addit
ional information of value. . .
(nls) resourcefulness and devot
ion to duty have made him a very
valuable employee.”
Henry is the son of Sheriff
and Mrs. Henry Odum Jr., 1222
Odum Street, Covington.
MICHAEL JACKSON PRATT
MIKE PRATT
GRADUATES AT
INDIAN SPRINGS
Mike Pratt was a member of
the graduating class at Indian
Springs School, a college pre
paratory school near Birming
ham, Alabama, where gradua
tion exercises were held on June
2. A former student at Newton
County High School, Mike was
solo trumpeter and Student Di
rector of Instrumental Music at
I.S.S. and was baritone soloist
of the I.S.S. Glee Club during
his Senior year there.
He served as a member of the
Mayor’s Advisory Council, the
Commission of Services, the
Commission of Development and
the Commission of Protection,
and also played on the varsity
soccer and varsity baseball
teams.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett
H. Pratt, Mike has enrolled at
the Eastman School of Music,
Rochester, New York, where he
will resume his studies In Sept
ember.
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led, but you can’t throw away,
some good clothing that you and
your doctor have both despaired
of your ever squeezing Into again;
even riding habits or boots, used
before you sold your horse. Such
intriguing items go to make a
successful “White Elephant
Sale”, according to the Co-Ch
airmen Paul Beyer and Ted St
roud. For, these are items
which will appeal to the col
lector, connolseur or decorat
or, who are always searching
for “buys”.
Donations are being received
now by Rotarians Alvin Rape,
E. G. Lassiter, co-chairmen of
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they want. . .their plans and am
bitions and we will be in there. .
from our desk. . .Pitching for
them. The acceptance speech of
the new President showed that
same spirit of going forward
and winning! He spoke of a
Jaycee Home or Office in the
plans. We are for that 100
percent! The entire city will
join with you in plans, we feel
sure. . .but they will speak for
themselves.
It was a pretty picture seeing
the wives of the retiring of
ficers pin the gift of the Organ
ization. . .a Jaycee Tie Tack...
on their husbands. Many awards
were made which will be record
ed elsewhere in the paper.
Yes, we are for you all the
way. . .for YOU are OUR TOM
ORROW. This city and county
is going to be pretty much what
you, the young people, make it
tomorrow. With the high Ideals,
outlined in your reports, and
the speakers, we have no fear for
tomorrow.
Mrs. Clifford Pierce, who lost
her dear husband last week, has
her two grandchildren with her
for a visit. The hearts of New
ton County went out to both she
and Mrs. Whelchel in their loss.
Some of us truly know how to
sympathize, .as we have said
many times. . .you have to walk
this same pathway before you
truly know all it Involves in
heartache, sorrow and lone
liness. We pray the Heavenly
Father will hover so near the
homes of all who have lost loved
ones that they may feel the touch
of His loving hand in theirs.
You City Officials, County Of
ficials, Citizens. . .listen to your
Office Boy! WE are one of the
finest Cities and Counties in
Georgia. We have the finest
young people (we believe) but
we have not provided a real
“play-ground” park for them.
A lake to swim in. . .build camp
fires and cook-out. . .play ten
nis, and ride bikes and horses
In pathway trails. . .Pavillion
to have Band Concerts... we need
this and we wonder what went
with out good friend Horace Cald
well. . .he will help if we let
him know Newton County has
the land, .and site for such a
place. We need a park for the
little ones. . where there is
a Merry-go-round and all the
other things needed to entertain
them. . .We are growing to the
extent that the State might SEE
our needs if we place them on
their desks. Who will start the
ball rolling?
We are glad Mrs. Tully Smith
is home from Florida, .we thought
she never would come back,
and we did miss our good neigh
bor.
Please, within our homes, let
us pray for Peace on Earth and
Goodwill toward all mankind!
Far too many of our young men
have been killed already without
another war. .or one in another
section! If we pray and work for
peace, .with God to reign in all
hearts. . .we believe he will hear
and answer our prayers. . .but
there’s that “IF”. .Are we pray
ing as we should? O’pps. .Heres
that broom, we gotter do our
“SWEEPIN’ UP”.
the collection and storage com
mittee, on which David Mor
rison and Billy Smith also are
serving. Or, any member of the
Rotary Club will gladly see that
your donation to the “Sale” is
picked up.
Covington Rotary Club has th
rough the years rendered inval
uable service to Newton Couity
in various projects for Its wel
fare and progress. The White
Elephant Sale Is another of their
Innovations to raise funds to give
the community an improved
Teen-Can for meetings and re
creation.
A little “late” spring cleaning
in the attic and storage house,
will produce many forgotten, use
ful objects, which you no longer
want or need, but can’t bear to
just throw away. These Items
will help make the “White Ele
phant Sale” a success; and will
be greatly appreciated by the Ro
tary Club.
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Information Institute reports,
grant discounts on automobile
liability and collision insurance
for young drivers who have suc
cessfully completed recognized
driver education courses in
schools.
By John B. Tate
Pastor
Allen Memorial Methodist
Church
Last year Dr. Albert Outlet,
speaking to the graduating class
of Emory University, reminded
them: “you have no choice but
freedom”. Then he asked them:
“are you fit for freedom?”
If has been a long hard climb
from a state of life where slav
ery, physical and mental, was the
common lot of most people, to
this moment where It can be said
to a generation “you have no
choice but freedom”.
Seneca said In the first cen
tury: “Show me anyone who’s
not a slave. One is a slave to
lust; another to avarice, a third
to ambition, all alike to fear”.
Goethe the German philosopher
said: “No one is more a slave
than he who thinks himself free
without being so”.
Harvey Cox, a present day
theologian at Harvard University
said: “Freedom always de
mands discipline”.
So freedom poses its dilem
ma. What does it profit a man
to break out of one tyranny if
he then falls back into a new
slavery, freely chosen?
This Is where we look to the
word of God in Paul’s letter to
the Galatians. He saw the prob
lem. Rewrote: “You are called
to freedom but do not use it as
an opportunity for Indulgence in
the flesh”. Then still writing
about freedom he said: “Do
not iecelve yourselves: no one
makes a fool of God. A man
will reap exactly what he plants.
If he plants In the field of his
natural desire, from It he will
gather the harvest of death; but
If he plants In the field of the
Spirit, from the Spirit he will
gather the harvest of eternal
life”. Paul saw that freedom
Is every man’s right. Then he
Layona Glenn
H Says .. .
I found among the writings of
the late J. W. Clay, such a good
discussion on temper, that I am
going to use It for my column
this week, so here it goes:
“Men, like steel, are worth
less when they lose their tem
per. Os course, they might be
worth a little something as sc
rap, to make munitions, but even
then, they continue to scrap, and
make more scraps!
“A man never gains anything
by losing his temper, but on the
contrary he stands to lose a great
deal more than his temper. It Is
easy for him to lose friends, bu
siness, and his own self-respect.
“Many a man of ability and
strength could have lived a happy
life of peace and harmony and of
Vacation Bible School Makes
Plans For ext Week’s Session
Vacation Bible School time is
here again and Preparation Day
at the First Baptist Church will
be held tomorrow (Friday), June
9. Everyone is to meet at the
church at 9 a. m. and at 11 a.m.
there will be a parade on the
square followed by a picnic lunch
at the church at 11:30, with each
child bringing a sack lunch. Dr
inks will be furnished by the
church. Parents are requested
to pick up their children at the
church at 12 noon.
Bible School will officially open
on Monday morning, June 12, and
will run for eight days, ending
on June 21. Each days session
will start at 9 a. m. and dismiss
at noon. Intermediate students
will meet at night during the
same period, starting at 7 p.m.
each evening 12th through 21st.
Rev. Edgar A. Callaway, pas
tor of the church, announces the
following officers for this year:
Principal of the school, Mrs.
W. o. Moore; Secretary, Mrs.
A. D. Barnett; Worker’s Nur
sery Superintendent, Mrs. N.S.
Avery; Three Year Old Nur
sery, Mrs. Ed Hunt; Beginner’s
Superintendent, Mrs. Bert Ad
ams; Primary Superintendent,
Mrs. Don Carter; Junior Super-
Thursday, June 8, 196?
uses a principle which is in
grained in the universe to nail
down the truth: the law of iden
tlcal harvest. Well that law
has not been repealed. H was
working then and is still working.
Man is basically of two naU
ures: human and spirit. Heis
free to invest his energy and
dedication in both directions.
BUT the fact stands: the harvest
is always the multiplication of
the identical seed. The seed
sown to the flesh bears the spo
res of their own decay and die
even as they grow. The same
law holds true when planting
the fruit of the spirit but with
opposite results in producing a
character over which death has
no power.
Look around you. Where are
people making their Investments?
They are free to do so, you know.
You can anticipate the harvest
because the dividends are guar
anteed.
So take a long look at this
matter of freedom. Yes, God
wants you to have it and enjoy
it. You must realize that free
dom is not the right to do what
we want, but it is the power to
do what we ought. This is the
wonderful discovery that was
made by Paul: Christ is the
power to follow the highest and
to fulfill the complete purpose
for which he was born. That is
why he said: “I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens
me.” Blessed is the man who
makes his investments In Christ
for he shall become a whole per
son. The dividends are guar
anteed as surely in the good as
in the evil.
The harvest Is constantly being
revealed in the lives of well
disciplined minds and dependable
personalities. For them life
is an adventure and an invest
ment — not a gamble, for in
deed the dividends are guaran
teed.
prosperity, had he had control
of his temper. But alas! He
allowed his temper to flare up
and sear his prospects of success
and happiness.
"A knife, a saw, a razor,
that has lost its temper is a
useless, contemptable thing. So
also is a man who cannot control
his temper.”
This holds true in all stages
of life, with men, women and
children. How many little child
ren, playing together, lose their
temper, and their play turns into
anything else but fun.
The Bible says "He that Is
slow to anger Is better than the
mighty, and he that ruleth his
spirit, than he that taketh a city.”
Prov. 16:32.
intendent, Mrs. Tom Bailey and,
Intermediate Superintendent^
Mrs. Bob Todd.
All children of the First Ban
tist Church and any other child
ren in the community interested
in attending Bible School please
meet at the church tomorrow
for Preparation Day.
Commencement Exercises for
the school will be held on Wednes
day evening, June 21, at 8 p.m.
at the church.
Mack Henderson
Receives Army
Commendation
SAIGON, VIETNAM — Army
Private First Class Mack A.
Henderson, 20, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Henderson, Route 1,
Covington, received the Army
Commendation Medal May 15
near Saigon, Vietnam.
Pvt. Henderson earned the aw
ard for meritorious service as
a cannoneer, assigned to Battery
D of the sth Artillery’s Ist Bat
talion.
He entered the Army in March
1966. His last duty station was at
Ft. SIU, Okla.