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Sorrow came to all employees
and members of the Covington
News Staff this week, when Mon
ta Crawford, one of our faithful
employees for nearly 26 years,
lost his beloved brother, Robert
Wade Crawford, in death. Words
are inadequate at a time like this
to express our heartfelt sympa
thy. We did not know this young
man who died, but we have been
very close in our church, in the
years gone by to his relatives,
the former Eloise Crawford, and
William Crawford and their fa
milies. Rev. Jim Luke brought
a challenging message of Ch
rist’s love, and His way of br
inging that Comfort we so need
to our hearts. He brought out
God’s promises for His children
. . .“I go to prepare a place for
you, and if I go and prepare a
place for you I will come again
and receive you unto myself,
that where I am there ye may
be also.” This is so comfor
ting to each of us, as we “walk
with HIM, and talk with Him,
and He tells us we are HIS own.”
Our hearts in the South were
grieved when the people’s good
friend, Ernest Rogers, of the
Atlanta Journal died in October.
We always had 6 o’clock break
fast at the Jekyll Island Press
meetings with them. . .for Bel
mont and I always arose (that is,
at the sea shore) at 6 o’clock
or earlier, to walk out on the
beach and watch the beauty of
God’s handiwork. . .as that huge
“ball of fire”, the sun, seemingly
peeked gradually out of the far
away waters where they touched
the sky . . . that was the most
beautiful picture of God’s handi
work, and we never missed it.
All this reminds us that we
should live every day to the ful
lest with Christ guiding our every
thought or deed.. .for we know not
the hour that He may call us to
come with Him. Our heartfelt
sympathy was wired to this be
reaved sister and her family.
We have known Ernie and Bertha
for many years, and loved them
dearly. In paying tribute to her
. . .we want to say, although
you know Ernie was in a wheel
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Fried Chicken
Store Robbed
A lone armed robber held up
the Kentucky Fried Chicken St
ore on US 278 in Covington Wed
nesday night about 7:55 o’clock.
He apparently escaped afoot with
between S4OO and $450, according
to the clerk on duty at the time,
Mrs. Jeanette McGiboney.
Mrs. McGiboney told City Po
lice, Sheriffs Deputies and City
Detective Wendell Kitchens that
the man, a Negro about 25-30
years of age, had been in the
store three times prior to brand
ishing a pistol. On each occasion
he had purchased salads, rolls
and other small items.
When he came in the fourth time
she asked “What now?” Thenhe
threw a small white flower sack
on the counter and drew the
pistol, she stated. “It was a
short, shiny silver like pistol,”
Mrs. McGiboney said.
She said he told her not to
make any noise until after he
was gone. He left afoot and
Mrs. McGiboney said she did
not believe he got into a car
in the parking lot.
Mrs. McGiboney ran into the
kitchen soon after the robbery
and told the assistant manager,
Charles Ellison, that she had
just been robbed.
Federal Money
Delaying Local
Hosp. Addition
The bid for the Newton County
Hospital addition has been let
but Federal Funds, now frozen,
will delay the start of construc
tion on the local facility, it was
learned Wednesday from local
hospital authorities.
Baugh and Coody of Albany
was the low bidder on the pro
posed addition. Bids were op
ened on November 21.
A schedule of construction
work will be announced when the
Federal Funds are released.
Football Banquet Tonight
The annual football banquet to
honor the 1967 Newton County
Rams and cheerleaders will be
held tonight (Thursday) at the
NCHS Cafeteria, starting at 7
o’clock.
The program, which follows the
evening meal, will reveal the
superlatives of the past season
and each will be presented a
trophy by the Covington Elks
Lodge No. 1806. The trophy
presentations will be made by
Exalted Ruler Dan Clower and
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VOLUME
Bond Issue Passed; Harris Elected
Empty Stocking Applications To
Be Taken During Coming Week
The Christmas Season annually
comes to Covington and Newton
County around the first week of
December, or to be more speci
fic when the Covington Rotary
Club starts its annual Empty
Stocking Fund drive. The time
for this charitable Christmas
venture this year is December
11-16.
Applications for needy persons
receiving Empty Stocking help
starts Monday, Dec. 11 at the
Courthouse corridor at 9 a. m.
according to an announcement by
Sam B. Hay, applications chair
man. Otis Spillers is Overall
Chairman of the Empty Stocking
program this year. Hugh Steele
is the president of the Covington
Rotary Club.
Again rotariannes will help
with the taking of applications.
The hours next week will be 9
to 12 noon, and from 1 until 4
p. m. daily.
Committees for the various
segments of the Empty Stocking
Fund are as follows:
Otis Spillers, Chairman.
Advisor to All Committees,
President, Hugh Steele.
Advanced Arrangements, Ch
airman, David Morrison; Bud
Dennison, John Dickens, Owen
Kellum, Irving Dietz.
Rotary Information (Bulletin
& Magazine), Chairman W. M.
Winn; Tom White.
Public Information (Radio),
Bill Hoffman.
Public Information (News
paper), Leo Mallard.
Special Collections & Schools,
Chairman, Whit Richardson; Al
vin Rape, Carlos Meyer.
Applications (Dec. Uth thru
Bibb Public
Rei. Director
Kiwanis Speaker
James M. Hale, Public Re
lations Director of Bibb Manu
facturing Company, will be the
guest speaker today (Thursday)
at the Covington Kiwanis Club
meeting at 1 o’clock at the Teen
Can building. M. B. Shaw, Su
perintendent of the Porterdale
facilities of Bibb, is the program
chairman for the week and he will
introuce Mr. Hale.
Mr. Hale has been a member
of the Bibb family for the past
three years. Prior to joining
the Bibb firm at Macon, he held
a similar position with the Am
erican Textile organization. Mr.
Hale was also State Editor of the
Atlanta Constitution for nine
years during the 1950’5.
Henry Simons, Executive Di
rector of The Georgia Agribu
siness Council, was the guest
speaker at the Covington Ki
wanis Club Thursday. The pro
gram was keyed to the theme of
Farm-City Week, which is an
nually an occasion observed by
Kiwanis Clubs. Ed Hunt was the
program chairman of the week
and he introduced the speaker.
Mr. Simons presented a slide
program pointing up the import
ance of agriculture and business
and its inter-dependency on each
other.
Many visitors were present for
the meeting, several of which
were Newton County farmersand
allied industry suppliers. Among
those were: Leonard Standard,
E. M. McCart, Alton Jolley, Sam
B. Hay, Jr., Bill Zeigler, Char
les Ewing, Julius Lazenby, Lee
Hays and Volley Parr. Other
visitors included: Donald Gilby
of Atlanta, Nash Williams of Ma
dison, Dr. R. H. Clark of Michi
gan, W. H. VanSant of Covington,
and Key Club members Richard
Allen and Danny Harwell. The
latter is president of the NCHS
Key Club.
will go to the Outstanding Back
and Outstanding Lineman, and the
Most Improved Back and the Most
Improved Lineman, and one tro
phy for the Sportsmanship Award.
Letters will be presented to
■ varsity and “B” team members
by the coaches, Head Coach Wil
bur Fisher, and assistants Perry
Haymore and Tom Wortman.
Other awards will be made during
the program, including recogni
tion and citations to the varsity
and “B” team cheerleaders.
(Enuingtnn New
Dec. 16th), Chairman, Sam B.
Hay.
Screening Committee (As ap
plications are made), Chairman,
Howard Brooks; C, G. Hender
son, Guy Jones, E. G. Lassiter,
Ronald Cook, Jim Morgan, Wer
ner Gruenhut.
Purchasing (Dec. 17th, 18th,
19th), Chairman, Dick Bellairs;
Paul Beyer, Bill Hoffman, Ho
ward Milligan, Ted Stroud, John
Morford, John Dickens.
Pickup Committee (Dec. 21st
or prior) (This Committee is also
responsible for returning excess
merchandise and equipment.),
Chairman, Alvin Rape; Jack Ch
ristian, Don Ballard, Brown Ne
vels, Mack Johnson, Darwin Wh
ite.
Packaging Committee (Dec. 21,
1967), Chairman, Moncey Pratt;
Robert Faulkner, Werner Gruen
hut, Louis Karman, Fred Kaem
pffe, James Callahan, Lynn Max
well, James Purcell, Dallas Tar
kenton, Herbert Vining, Darwin
White, W. M. Winn, Sam B. Hay,
Lee Brunson.
Deliver Committee (Dec. 22nd
& 23rd), Chairman, Billy Smith;
Cloud Abernathy, E. M. McCart,
Guy Jones, Jack Christian, Ro
bert Shepherd, Ronald Cook, Bud
Dennison, Paul Beyer, David Mo
rrison, Brown Nevels, Owen Kel
lum, Bill Barnett.
Emergency committee, Chair
man, Bill Cook; Herbert Vining,
Carlos Meyer, Tom White, Cl
aude Schlagenhauf.
Treasurer, C. G. Henderson.
Cousins School
Sets World
Carol Concert
Christmas Carols from ar
ound the world will be included
in the annual Cousins Christ
mas Carol Concert December
11, 1967.
The concert will be held in
the school cafetorium at 8:00
P. M.
The performing groups will be
the mixed Chorus, directed by
C. B. Grimes and Concert Band,
directed by T. K. Adams.
Bible Has Found A Place In Vietnam
Mrs. Pearle Parrish, Rt.
6, Covington, Georgia has re
quested that this letter from
a soldier in Vietnam to his sis
ter be printed:
“Dear Sis: I don’t know
where to start first. So many
things have happened since I
last wrote you. Well, to be
gin with I have escaped death
at the hands of the enemy in
away so amazing I am still
in a daze. You remember I
told you I was going over ar
med with the Bible too: That
Bible is the reason lam still
here and able to write this
letter to all America. Here
is the story:
“My buddy and I were sent
out on duty with our equipment
in the work I told you before
was our job. We had just re
ceived information - the most
Important for weeks. But we
were discovered by the enemy.
"I gave my buddy the infor
mation we had collected, told
him to beat It, and prepared
myself to face the enemy. It
was the first time I had been
face-to-face with the neces
sity of pointing my gun at a
man to shoot the life from his
body. I thought fast, then I
said “Lord, its Your respon
sibility now.” “As I reached
for my carbine a shot from one
of them struck me in the breast
and blasted me down. But my
buddy had not obeyed my or
der. He had not gone. Think
ing I was dead, he turned for
me, grabbed my carbine as
well as his own, stood as
tride my body, and blasted
away with both guns. He was
hit, too—his knees with three
bullet wounds. But when he
finished there were not any of
the enemy left.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1967
Covington Kiwanis Officers For Year 1968
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COVINGTON KIWANIS Club officers for 1968 are shown above at the organizational meeting Monday
at the Elks Club. Seated, left to right: Terry Avery, member board of directors; Charles Strickland,
secretary; Philip Cohen, president; and Guy Evans, vice-president. Back: Ben Banks, immediate past
president to be; Gerald Wendel, Norbert Thompson, Dr. Johnny Maloney and Martin Goode, all members
of board of directors. Not present for the photo: Rucker Ginn, vice-president; E. E. Callaway, treas
urer; Donald Stephenson and Moody Summers, board of directors.
Kiwanis Held Organizational
Meeting Monday, Elks Club
The annual organizational
meeting for the Covington Kiwan
is Club was held at the Elks
Club Monday night with presi
dent-elect Philip Cohen in char
ge of the session following a din
ner meal. Officers and commit
tee chairmen for 1968 attended
the meeting.
Mr. Cohen first gave a word
of welcome to those present and
then he paid tribute and praise
to the 1967 President of the lo
cal club, Ben Banks. “Our 1967
president has made such an out
standing record it is going to be
hard for us to carry on the work
“He was amazed when I rol
led over and tried to get up.
The force of the bullet had
only stunned me. Dazedly I
wondered why. I pulled that
little Bible out of my pocket
and in utter muteness looked
at the ugly hole in the cover
—lt had ripped through Gene
sis, Exodus, Leviticus, Num
bers, through Samuel, Kings
and kept going. Where do you
think it stopped? In the mid
dle of Psalms 91, pointing like
a finger at this verse — ‘A
thousand shall fall at my side,
and ten thousand at thy right
hand, but it shall not come
nigh thee.’ Sis, when I read
that verse, it raised me off the
ground. I did not know there
was such a verse in the Bible.
I’d been reading most in the
New Testament. In utter hu
mility I said “Thank you,
precious God.”
This soldier goes on to re
late in his letter to his sister,
that when he got his buddy
back to the post, his buddy
called him over to say, “This
convinces me. I want to get
right with God.” He wouldn’t
even let them tend his wounds,
saying “Nothing matters now
but this.”
Falling on the knee with the
three wounds he prayed until
his body became almost numb.
But he wouldn’t give up. And
then he knew the Lord had
heard his cry, and had come
into his heart and saved him,
he ran outside and shouted to
the whole camp.
Continues this soldier’s let
ter, “since that time 1 have
talked with the boys, held mee
tings, and prayed with them.
Twenty-five of the men have
■ through another year,” Mr. Co
■ hen stated.
> In explaining the duties of each
committeeman for the next year
Mr. Cohen stressed that each
• committee work diligently and
adhere to the 1968 theme of Ki-
I wanis: “Be A Builder, Get Per
sonally Involved.”
The committees for the local
I Kiwanis Club for 1968 follows:
BOYS & GIRLS: Chm. George
Hutchinson, Jack Meadors, Don
Dr. Haggai Is Kiwanis Ladies Night Speaker Tuesday
Briscoe, Jordan Callaway, God
frey Trammell, Gerald Wendell,
Dir.
KEY CLUB: Chm. Robert Fow
ler 111, Bob Greer, Don Wood,
Fred Harwell, Norbert Thomp
son, Dir.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE:
Chm. Wayne Rumble, Laverne
Cowan, W, J. Dickey, Virgil Eady
111, Gerald Wendell, Dir.
AGRICULTURE & CONSERV
ATION: Chm. Ed Hunt, Tom Ba
tes, Charles Elliott, Robert Fow
ler 11, Donald Stephenson, Dir.
INTERNATIONAL RELAT
IONS: Chm. V.Y.C. Eady 11,
Nat Turner, Spence Ramsey, E.
come out for God. God has
even reached my general.
“I tell you, Sis, prayer is
going to win this war. Not
guns alone, Fervent agonizing
prayer.
“Pray Sis, pray as you have
never prayed before. Tell
everyone to pray. Tell all
Americans to go on their
knees.
“Until nations and people
have paid in blood and tears for
thrusting God out of their
hearts, out of their homes,
nations and lands, this war
will not end.
Tell them to send Bibles
and more Bibles. A Bible
will give a soldier the con
fidence that God is with him.
Try to get this letter on the
air, in the papers, In anything
that Is printed. Make copies
of it. Send it from coast to
coast. Tell them the Army
wants prayer—and Bibles.”
And this soldier boy, hop
ing his letter will reach all
America, writes further ad
dressing his remarks to
complacent, bridge - playing,
cocktail drinking mothers, as
king: “Why didn’t you teach
your sons about God Instead
of handing them a cigarette,
a cocktail glass, and a dance
program: Get on your knees
and ask God to forgive your
sins and save you.
“And you dignified preac
hers—why didn’t you teach
your people to pray, to follow
God, Instead of standing be
fore them In your silken ro
bes and reading them ritual?”
Please America, Please,
Pray and Pray and pray for
us.
Editorial 2
Obituary a. a ... 6
Society g
Sports 15-17
Legal 18-22
Classified ? q
Dobbs Defeats Greer For
Post 3 On City Council
Covington Mayor Walker Har
ris was re-elected to another
term of office in Wednesday’s
City Election by a two to one
vote over Otis Spillers. Council
man Dr. W. L. Dobbs defeated
Larry Greer for the Post 3 seat
on the City Council by a vote of
1,144 to 401.
The gas and electrical revenue
certificates In the amount of
$1,000,000 was passed by the vo
ters by a large majority of the
1,628 who cast their ballot in
this special referendum.
Mayor Harris, who was elected
to a third term as the city’s
chief executive, polled 1,066 vo
tes, against Mr. Spillers’ 516.
There were 46 votes voided.
In the Post 3 council race
there were 82 votes voided and
one write-In vote was cast for
Dr. E. L. Smith. E. E. Calla
way (Post 1) and Fred Kitchens
(Post 2) were unopposed for re
election. Callaway garnered
1,545 and Kitchens 1,528. Oli
ver Capes and Duck Atkins each
received one write-in vote in
the Post 1 and Post 2 races.
Cadet Band To Give
Concert Tonight 7:30
Oxford Town
Election Mon.
The annual Oxford Town elect
ion will be held Monday, Decem
ber 11, and polls will be open
at the Town Hall from 12 noon
until 7 p. m.
In the mayor’s race, incumbent
A. W. Jackson is opposed by
Herbert Katz. There are five
candidates for the three coun
cil seats. Those aspiring for
the posts are Thomas W. Dial,
James N. Dobbs, Virgil Y. C.
Eady, Jr., J. T. Kirkley and
Joseph “Rip” Repetske.
Dial and Dobbs are incum
bents. The other incumbent coun
cilman, John T. Lovern, did not
offer for re-election.
A well known "businessman’s preacher” and radio commentator
for whose work a national foundation has been formed will deliver
the featured address at the Covington Kiwanis Club Ladies Night
Christmas Banquet. This banquet will be held at the E, L. Ficquett
Elementary School Cafetorium on Tuesday night, December 12,
at 7:00 o’clock. Special music for this occasion will be furnished
by the Chapel Choir of the First Methodist Church under the dl-
rection of Mrs. Owen Kellum, Jr.
The speaker is Dr. Thomas
Stephens Haggal of High Point,
North Carolina who for the past
five years, has averaged a sp
eech a day before business, civic,
educational and religious groups
throughout the United States as
well as internationally. He Is
equally well-known for his syndi
cated radio program, “Values
for Living” which is broadcast
daily from coast to coast.
Only 37 years old and thus a
relative newcomer to the nation’s
fraternity of noted speakers, Dr.
Haggai’s upward spiral in popu
larity has none the less brought
spectacular endorsement. For
example, 120 leading business
and professional men from a
broad cross-section of American
commerce joined together in 1963
to form their non-profit foundat
ion for the purpose of furthering
Tom Haggai’s basic message of
“patriotism through religion”
and making possible ever larger
audiences in all sections of the
nation. When the foundation was
formed on his behalf, Dr. Haggal
resigned as pastor of a pros
perous Baptist Church in High
Point, North Carolina in order
to become, in effect, a “mlnlster
at-large”—thus leaving Ids pul
pit and gaining the entire United
States as his parish.
Tom Haggal was born in Ka
lamazoo, Michigan in 1931 of
Syrian English heritage. He be
gan preaching at the age of 12,
speaking from the back of a truck
in the slums of aristocratic Bos
ton. He is a graduate of North
Greenville Junior College and he
completed his studies at Furman
University where he was awarded
the McMillan Medal of Oratory as
a top collegiate debater.
Although Dr. Haggal has been
praised by newspaper and mag
azine writers with such superla
tives as “wildly funny and se
archlngly serious” and as being
NUMBER 49
City officials and engineers
had pointed out the urgency of
improvements and expansion in
both the gas and electric depart
ment.
Recent figures issued by City
Hall shows that electrical cust
omer permits issued for new
homes and businesses for 1966
was 61. In 10 months this year
that number has gone to 90 new
customers.
In the past year the number of
new customers on the electrical
lines has increased by 148. As of
October the number of electricity
customers in the city numbered
3,991.
Gas customers in the City of
Covington have also increased ra
pidly in the past year. In Octo
ber of 1966 there were 2,8-09
customers and this year as of
October) the number is 3,044 an
increase in the past 12 months of
235.
City engineers, talking to the
Covington-Newton County Cham
ber of Commerce, Monday stated
that the two systems in the city
are now at capacity. They stat
ed that each system would have
to be beefed up if the city is to
continue its growth, especially
for industries now located here
and those expected in the future.
The annual Christmas Concert
by the Newton County Cadet Band
will be presented Thursday night,
December 7, at 7:30 in the E. L.
Ficquett School Cafetorium. The
program will feature light musi
cal numbers ranging from an ar
rangement of the Re\ olutlonary
War Battle Hymn "Chester” toa
traditional Christmas melody
“Greensleeves.”
Also included on the program
will be selections by the Begin
ning Band composed of students
from Ficquett, Livingston, Pal
mer Stone, and Porterdale Sc
hools, and two numbers by the
Intermediate Band composed of
students from Ficquett and Pal
mer Stone Schools.
Admission is SI.OO for adults
and 50 cents for students with
the tickets being good for ad
mission to the Blue Rambler Band
Concert on December 14.
Dr. Higgai
“a man with a golden voice,”
he insists that his spiritual and
nationalistic doctrines have br
ought about his conspicuous po
pularity as a speaker. As the
executive of a major business
man’s association puts it, “No
one who has ever heard Tom
Haggal speak will ever forget
him.”
The announcement of Dr. Hag
gai’s appearance here was made
by Ben Banks, Kiwanis Club Pre
sident, who will be the presiding
officer at this Ladies Night af
fair.
Notice To Masons
Os Golden Fleece
Lodge No. 6
All masons of Golden Fleece
Lodge are notified that on De
cember 12 there will be an elec
tion to elect officers for 1968.
Refreshments will be served at
6:30 P. M. consisting of oyster
stew, etc.
All members are urged to
be present. J. W. Morgan, W, M.