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COMMENTS
Two-Fold Mission
It is estimated that in the United States there are
some 682 million acres of land in the contiguous
48 states suitable for cultivation. If present pop
ulation forecasts prove accurate, this area will
have to provide living space as well as produce
the food and fiber required to support 100 million
more Americans by the year 2000.
The possibilities for agricultural advancement
are great. For example, the farms which some
experts envisage in the year 2000 may be mech
anized beyond our present conprehension. The
farmer in an air-conditioned office may run his
operation with the aid of a centrally-located com
puter operated from a keyboard on his desk. This
will bring scientific precision to decisions con
cerning what kind of seed to sow, how many acres
should be devoted to which crops, what kind and
quantity of fertilizer and pesticide chemicals
should be applied and exactly which day to har-
Feasons Varied For Highway Deaths
Why do people die on the highways? We know
how they die; from broken bodies, terrible gash
es and internal injuries. Some also die from shock.
The reasons they die are varied but in case after
case, the investigating officer writes, “Speed too
fast for conditions’’.
A 24-year old truck driver rounded a curve at
60 miles per hour. Safe speed was listed at 30.
He careened off the road to his death. SPEED
TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS.
A 35-year old man, carrying two passengers
in a sedan, ran a stop sign into the path of an on
coming truck. All but the truck driver died. The
license of the driver of the car had been suspended
for DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE.
A 41-year old man driving a three year old
sedan lost control at approximately 90 miles per
hour. A passenger with him died when the car
went out of control, hit a parked truck, a utility
pole and flipped through the air. SPEEDING.
OBVIOUSLY DRUNK.
A 28-year Id man driving a 13 year-old car
skidded cwt of control and into an oncoming car.
The road was wet. The tires were slick. His
speed, 50. Maximum safe speed, 30. The pas-
Ships That Will Not Pass
ThP news on passenger steamships Is presented
so gloomily these days by many newspapers and
magazines that we wonder why they don’t run it
in the obituary columns. It would sadden us indeed
if these great graceful sea rovers were to dis
appear from the scene; they always have seemed
to us the most beautiful vehicles devised by man.
But what about these reports of the decline in
sea travel? Is the end near for the passenger
steamship industry?
“Those who are signaling for organ music and
preparing to view the remains should have their
crystal balls confiscated,” it was declared recently
by Warren S. Titus, president of P & 0 Lines
(North America). He should know P&0 is the
world’s largest and oldest shipping company and
operates the largest passenger fleet.
It is his informed opinion that undue emphasis
is being placed on the withdrawal of the QUEEN
ELIZABETH and QUEEN MARY from service and
the decline in the sale of passenger steamship
tickets in the trans-Atlantic trade.
Behind The Iron Curtain
A new kind of frontier has been opened up to the
tourist thanks to international jet air travel. Time
magazine describes this new frontier in an in
teresting feature. It tells how visitors from all
over the world are seeing the U.S.S.R. for the
first time. New hotels are going up everywhere.
The Russia Hotel in Moscow will lie the world’s
largest with 3,182 air-conditioned rooms. Today’s
influx of tourist can hardly fail to have civiliz
ing influence on international relations.
Curious, but well behaved, sightseers from
all walks of life may prove to Im 1 more effective
emissaries of goodwill tlian many expect. And
there is a lot to see in Russia, from the white
nights of Leningrad, where it stays light until
PAYETTE IDAHO, INDEPENDENT - ENTER
PRISE: “We hear a lot about world 'population
explosion’ but to us here in the relatively wide open
spaces it doesn’t mean so much. Recently, however,
we scanned a census report that does put an ex
clamation point behind the phrase. World popula-
tion is currently 3.5 billion persons, it stated, ano
is increasing at the rate of two per cent per year.
That means tliat world population is increasing at
the rate of 70 million per year and that by the year
2000, world population will be nearly double that
of today. That’s only 33 years away!”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publithor
LEO S. MALLARD
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
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vest what crop. Land grading and contouring
will be far advanced to control erosion and uti
lize water most effectively. Fullest cooperation
between industry, private agriculture and govern
ment, it is thought, could double and triple present
day crop production per acre in many cases. In
this picture, intensive use of advanced pesticides
will be vital in the control and eradication of harm
ful organisms, weeds and diseases.
The potential to achieve these advances exists
today in' the United States and must be fully utili
zed. U. 8. agriculture has a two-fold mission. It
must grow the food to sustain our own expanding
population and help meet food deficits around the
world. It must also continue to serve as a spawn
ing ground for advanced land use technology and
export this knowledge for use in other nations.
The peace of the world and the future of mankind
will depend on the success of this mission.
senger in the car is dead. SPEED TOO FAST
FOR CONDITIONS.
A 30-year old man driving a 12-year old sedan
went into a curve about 70 miles per hour in a 40-
, mile zone. He hit the brakes, lost control, was
thrown out against a tree and killed. SPEEDING.
A 42-year old woman was traveling 70 miles
per hour in a 50-mile zone when she ran off the
right side of the road, lost control, skidded back
across the road and struck three small trees.
; A ten year old passenger was thrown from the
vehicle, run over by it and was killed. UNLAW
FUL SPEED.
I A 23-year old man was driving 80 in a 60 mile
zone. On a straight road he lost control, ran off
I the road, tore down a sign, jumped a culvert and
overturned. A passenger was killed. SPEEDING.
An 18-year old boy was driving 60-65 in a 50
- mile zone. He skidded across the road, struck
an embankment and turned over. A 15-year old
female passenger died. SPEED. DRUNK.
These cases are taken from actual reports of
investigating officers, supplied to the Georgia
• Safety Council. We hope you won’t have a case
that parallels any of the above cases.
around midnight during the summer, to the sunny
climate of ancient Kiev, dating back to the Fifth
Century.
It is expected that about 25,000 Americans will
visit the U.S.S.R. this year. And with the inau
guration this fall of scheduled air service by Pan
American Airways and Aeroflot between New York
and Moscow, air travel to the new frontier of tour
ism, Russia, will expand in the months and years
ahead. Currently, travelers may utilize 21-day
excursion plans designed to fit limited vacation
budgets. The true significance of the jet age is
illustrated in the intermingling of peoples it is now
encouraging behind the Iron Curtain.
STERLING. ILL., GAZETTE: "Doyou ever have
the feeling that this kooky old world is getting
kookier?.. .We buy things we don’t need with money
we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.
And when we can’t meet the payments, we merely
arrange for one friendly, gigantic, impossible loan
to get rid of the friendly, little, impossible loans.”
FOREST CITY, N. C., COURIER: “With the se
cond and third generations of some families still
on the welfare rolls, it’s time to seek ways to get
them off the public dole and onto their own two feet.
They will never realize self-respect and initiative
until they can stand on their own.’’
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But these losses, he said, are more than offset
by the booming cruise trade and wliat is happening
in the Pacific, round-world and other trades. He
cited the fact that passenger carryings by mem
bers of the Trans-Pacific Passenger Conference
rose 4.45 percent last year and show signs of
steady increase.
Only one thing is dead in the passenger steam
ship business, he said. That is the idea that pas
senger steamships are transportation. Instead,
they are floating resorts; and on this basis all
tiie signs indicate they have a very bright future
indeed.
Another indicator, Titus pointed out, is the fact
that 40 passenger ships have been built since 1960.
They include P & O’s own superliners CANBERRA
and ORIANA.
We hope, and believe, that he is right. It is
inconceivable that sea travel could decline or dis
appear so long as the human race retains its
taste for gracious living, romance and adventure.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OUB WEEKLY LENNON FOR
Sunday School
GOD YEARNS FOR HIS
WAYWARD PEOPLE
Devotional Reading: Jeremiah
31:1-6.
Memory Selection: I have lo
ved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my
faithfulness to you. Jeremiah
31:3.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
God Loves You Always
Young People - Adult Topic:
God’s Unwavering Compassion
As we observed in the pre
vious lesson, the lure of other
gods was brining about the gra
dual moral and political dissolu
tion the Northern Kingdom.
Hosea was the prophet of love.
He interpreted the relationship
of Israel to her God as the re
lationship of a wife to her hus
band. Tills figure was a dread
ful reality in Hosea’s life, for
his wife had proved unfaithful.
As Gomer had been unfaithful
to Hosea, so Israel had been
unfaithful to her God.
We need always to bear In
mind, first, that idolatry is the
chief enemy of true religion and,
secondly, that Idolatry exists In
the modern world today as it did
in the ancient. We do not pro
strate ourselves before idols of
wood and stone, but an idol is
anything put in place of God or
before God.
Love of money, desire for
increased power and the oppo
rtunity to dominate, attachment
to illicit passions — those are
idols which have nothing whatso
ever to do with the calendar.
They continue in our own day
and in our own communities pre
cisely as they did many centur
ies ago in the kingdom of Judah
and Israel.
When Jeroboam set up golden
calves and declared before his
people that these had led them out
of the land of Egypt (I Kings
12:28-33), he had ensured the
moral — and eventually the po
litical—dissolution of his king
dom. The commandment of God
Layona Glenn
Soys . . .
Be careful what you say when
small children are playing ar
ound. You may think they are
paying no attention, or that they
will not understand what you are
saying, but children take In a
vast lot more than their elders
give them credit for. It Is am
azing how much a child absorbs
during his first six years. In
fact by the time he Is six a
child’s character has been In
clined for good or evil. By
that time he has absorbed en
ough from the conversation and
actions of his elders to decide
just what is right or wrong In
his own thoughts and acts. He
does not wait for you to decide
when and what to teach him.
By observation and absorption
he appropriates all of your at
titudes, or rejects them, and sets
his own standards of right and
wrong.
You can learn a lot about what,
when, and how to teacher your
child if you think back, and study
what you can remember of your
own childhood experiences.
If people would do that, and
research their own childhood,
and act on these memories In
their association with their ch
ildren the casually accepted
HIGHWAY DEATHS WILL MAR
SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING
ATLANTA (GPS) — "28 KIL
LED, 280 INJURED IN 588 AUTO
WRECKS!”
That well could be the Monday
morning headlines In Georgia
newspapers following this year’s
Tnanksglving holiday weekend.
And It likely will be, too, for
this is the State Patrol’s predi
ction for the 102-hour period
from 6 p. m. Wednesday, Nov.
22, through midnight Sunday, Nov.
26.
“This prediction of 588 traf
fic accidents which will claim
the Ilves of 28 persons and cause
Injury to 280 others Is based on
past Thanksgiving holiday exper
iences and on present trends,”
explained Col. R. H. Burson,
director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Public Safety.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
“Thou shalt have no other gods
before me’’ (Exod. 20:3) is not
only a commandment but a firm,
unyielding moral principle.
We read in I John 4:8 that God
is love. These words were wri
tten many centuries after Hosea
and the Northern Kingdom had
gone the way of all flesh. But
they sum up the nature, charac
ter, and purpose of God briefly
and effectively.
Harmony is one of the prin
cipal factors in love—harmony
within the loving heart, harmony
between persons, harmony bet
ween man and his God.
Hosea denounced his nation,
as did most of the other pro
phets, but his chief emphasis
was upon the reality of God’s
love and the sin of disregarding
and transgressing it.
When Israel was a child, that
is, when the tribes were living
together in Egypt, God had cal
led his son out of the bondage
which with the passing years
was fastened upon the Hebrew
people. He had set his love upon
them whenthey were a community
of slaves. He heard their groan
ing, their cries of agony, and He
interposed to save them. Moses
was the leader of that famous
exodus.
Matthew declares that the word
of Hosea was fulfilled when the
child Jesus was brought up out of
Egypt (Matt. 2:15). The angel
of the lord had warned Joseph
to take the young child and his
mother and flee into Egypt, and
later had commanded Joseph to
take the young child and his mot
her back again into their native
land, “for they are dead which
sought the young child’s life.’’
But the emancipated people
soon fell under the domination of
Baal worship “and burned in
cense to graven images.” Hosea
at this point uses the graphic fi
gure of a parent teaching a child
to walk, taking the child by his
arms.
Furthermore, He drew them
unto Him “with the cords of a
man, with bands of love.”
growing apart between parents
and children as they approach
adolescence need not take place.
To begin with, children naturally
confide In their mothers, and like
to tell them all that they see or
hear. If the mother takes time
to listen and encourage this she
can keep In touch with the ad
vancement In her child’s think
ing.
I know from experience that
this Is true. Fortunately my
step-mother was wise enough to
win my confidence, and establish
very close relationship with me
when she camelntoour home, and
encouraged me to discuss all that
I heard from my school mates
and what we did and said, and when
we agreed not to tell any one of
our discussions, It never oc
curred to me to exclue mother,
I considered her just one of us,
and we discussed them together.
As a consequence, she often set
me straight, and helped me to
orient my companions. When
they said: “Don’t tell anybody”,
I didn’t consider mother an out
sider, and discussed It with her,
and as I said, she often set us
straight.
If you follow this plan you
can orient your child.
“It is simply a projection of
statistics which, unfortunately,
are usually pretty accurate. But
this doesn’t necessarily have'to
hold true. For instance, indi
vidual drivers, who actually
cause such tragedies through ca
relessness and reckless driving,
could prove our prediction wrong
by driving carefully, sensibly and
obeying the traffic laws. We
strongly appeal to them to do
that.”
W hile the safety director hopes
motorists will heed his appeal,
the State Patrol is taking no ch
ances. It will carry out a mas
sive traffic enforcement operat
ion throughout the 102 - hour
period, similar to the ones con
ducted over the July 4th and
Labor Dav holiday weekends.
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(Editor’s Note: Mrs. Brew
ster Is the former Miss Betty
Anne Masten, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Leo Masten
of Covington. Her sister Helen
she refers to is the Mastens’
only other child.)
331 Nokes Dr.
Hendersonville, Tenn.
Dear Mrs. Mallard,
I regularly subscribe to The
Covington News. Even thoughJ
am happily settled In Tennessee,
I miss my friends and Mother’s.
I am sure Mother would like for
her friends to keep up with Helen
and me, as we keep up through
the News, there.
Helen is in Oklnaw? now, teac
hing at the Air Force Base at
Naha. She had taught two years
in the Atlanta School System be
fore leaving for Okinawa. She
plans a trip to Taiwan or For
mosa during the Thanksgiving
holidays.
As for myself, I am living In
Hendersonville. It is called the
fastest growing town in Tennes
see; being situated on a large
lake and only twenty miles from
Nashville. Our Baptist Church
Is an excellent example of that
growth. When Ralph and I join
ed in 1963, there were 400 en
rolled. Today there are over
1500. I have been YWA Director
for three years; and was honored
this year by being elected WMU
president. Our WMU has 150
members with 5 day circles and 1
night circle for business women.
We take great pride In our Youth
organizations. We have 120 Sun
beams and 50 GA Girls. As you
can see, Hendersonville’s fast
growing population Is largely
young families. The community
has had to build a new school
each year since we have been
here.
Ralph, my husband, began his
own insurance Company two
years ago and Is doing very well.
I taught school for three years,
then retired to rear our two
little girls, Teri Lynn 4, and
Sharen 3 years old.
As I mentioned before, much
of my heart is still in Coving
ton with our many family friends
there. I felt like you and the pa
per would be able to say hello
to all of them 'or me, in your
personal column or wherever
you choose.
Again, let me say how much I
enjoy reading my Covington News
each week.
Sincerely,
Betty Anne Masten Brewster
(Mrs. Ralph Brewster)
Thank you, Betty Anne, for gi
ving us this personal glimpse of
your and Helen’s Ilves today.
Especially gratifying is the know
ledge that you are carrying on
your mother’s tradition of ser
ving In your church.
We live in an age of free
thinking that often produces ac
tion without responsible thought.
Communication between the ra
ces often is heard without under
standing, and plans made on paper
fail to materialize due to indi
fference and insincerity.
Covington is fortunate to have
a Bi-Racial Committee of sincere
citizens from both races that
meets monthly to discuss pro
blems between the races and
sensible solutions to these pro
blems. This group is notagroup
of Idealists with thoughts in the
clouds of a Utopian relationship
among our people.
Around the table at one of th
ese meetings sit Negro and Wh
ite men and women who, although
they may not always agree, re
spect each other and listen with
a realistic ear to real problems
and needs affecting both races in
our community.
This committee talks about
specific problems, not genera
lities. Here members of both
races speak freely without an
ger or embarrassment about tou
chy problems that this communi
ty faces. Together this group
makes recommendations to the
City Council for action to relieve
the source of these problems.
What kind of problems you ask?
Let’s look at a few. A Negro
grammar school needs a few
basketballs and footballs for ch
ildren to play with in physical
education classes. . .also, two
basketball hoops with nets. This
need was made known to a local
industry and the balls were pro
vided. The hoops and nets will
be provided through the commit
tee.
Several complaints were re
ceived from Negros concerning
discourteous treatment when ma-
By Bob L. Bowen, Minister
Trinity Methodist Church
Life’s Confession
As we read God’s Word for
dally nourishment for our faith,
the confession of the Apostle Paul
halls undeniably that the Lord’s
Anointed Servant Is the foundation
of man’s life — “For other
foundation can no man lay than
that is laid, which is Jesus Ch
rist (1 Cor. 3:11).” To accept
this life-principle is to have the
Christ dally express God’s love
In us for the good of all men.
We may be morally good and
better than average in charity,
but the best way of all gifts for
us to express ourselves is the
godly gift of love. O yes, we
certainly do mean Agape; God’s
love for man and the same love
which should link all men toget
her, especially all Christians In
the godly bond of Grace. To live
Paul’s Love of Life as it is de
scribed in First Corinthians Ch
apter Thirteen is to make good
life’s confession that Jesus Ch
rist is truly the Lord of our li
ves. In this way we are enabl
ed not only to speak effectively,
but to devoutly love others. Here
is away for us to avoid despair
and nothingness. From the accep-
'fyport ।
By Mrs. Robert I. Burall |
Tenth District Director .
Georgia Congress of Parents ‘
and Teachers |
Are you an active partner In
the education enterprise? You
can take steps that will insure
your children a better education.
For Instance - Have you ever
asked yourself what you want
your child to get from his school
experience? Do you share his
interests with him, no matter how
insignificant they may seem to
you? Ask yourself how well do
you understand the educational
philosophy and practice In the
schools, your children attend?
This means High school as well
as in the Elementary schools.
Thursday, November 16, 1967
COVINGTON’S
81-RACIAL COMMITTEE
By! Leo S. Mallard
king application locally for dri
ver’s licenses. Letters, stating
specific instances, will be col
lected from the persons involved
and submitted to the proper aut
hority.
Committee members dis
cussed the problem of teenage
Negro boys carrying concealed
.22 calibre pistols to school and
around town. An investigation
into this problem and the rea
son for this conduct is being
made.
The committee discussed and
recommended to the City Council
that a study be made of the traf
fic situation around two Negro
schools and that school boy pat
rols be used possibly to help
alleviate the problems.
Specific cases of unnecessary
action on the part of some law
enforcement officers in the per
formance of their duty were ch
ecked into by the committee and
the City Council and a better at
mosphere of understanding in
relation to such problems has
been present for the past several
months.
The Bi-Racial Committee is
by no means a cure-all for racial
problems, but it does exist to ser
ve both the Negro and White
people of Covington. The support
of this committee by the members
of both races is urgently needed
in order for Covington to meet the
challenge of social change that is
sweeping the nation.
Through this committee pro
blems can be discussed and re
commendations for action to be
taken can be made. Here lies
open communication between the
races, and the means of mutual
understanding and discussion of
problems that affect all of us in
our community.
WnrbaSn
Ktur Sy
tance of God’s love personally in
Jesus Christ, we are compelled
to prayerfully seek out others
and share with them the wonder
fully true Gospel.
God’s foundation for life is the
loving Savior Christ. He never
quits or gives up the divine mis
sion of love to mankind. Witness
the biblical record of the risen
Lord who clearly reveals for all
men the amazing love of God. Th
ink of what joy the Lord Jesus
gives freely to all who will re
ceive His purifying blessings for
their Ilves.
Although all things may pass
away from us, we can have an
unfailing confidence In the gifts
of faith, hope and love. But the
stabilization of God’s gifts for
us is represented in Jesus Ch
rist.
From the above you can see
that I have made my life’s con
fession. The faith I confess is
built lovingly upon Jesus Christ
the righteous, God’s love that puts
me right with Himself, myself
and other selves. If your life’s
confession Is not now the love of
God given in Jesus Christ, then I
beg of you to show just cause why
you should not build your life
on the godly foundation of Jesus
Christ!
There are channels for obtaining
such understanding. One way Is
through PTA work.
You should know your child’s
teacher as a person, not as a
name only. They mark the Ilves
of nearly all our people; some
times they even mark a few souls.
As children reach the high sc
hool age they have new respon
sibilities and new challenges.
They need the understanding and
experiences of adults, both pa
rents and teachers, walking with
them, not pushing or admonishing
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