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ANNUAL COACHES’S ALL-AMERICA GAME AT STADIUM JUNE 28
Bob Johnson of Tennessee and
Granville Liggins of Oklahoma,
college stars who thrilled mil
lions of TV viewers when they
ran head-to-head in the Orange
Bowl game New Year’s Night
are headed for a rematch—June
28th in Atlanta.
Both are bona fide All-Ameri
cans—picked by the members of
the American Football Coaches
Association—and pending their
acceptance they will be on oppo
site sides when the East meets
the West in the AFCA’s Eighth
Annual All-Amerlca game in At
lanta Stadium.
Johnson, six-foot-four, 232 po
und center and Captain of the
Southeastern Conference champ
ion Tennessee Volunteers, no
doubt will be a mainstay up front
for the East squad that will be
seeking its fourth victory in this
“best of the All-Star games.”
Liggins, meanwhile, was the
fierce 'nose guard’ in Oklahoma’s
great defense and a big reason
why the Sooners were Big Eight
and Orange Bowl champions. The
duel he and Johnson staged on
New Year’s night in Miami was
a memorable one.
Who are other All-Americans
who’ll be in action in the eighth
annual game? Certain selections
for the team are the graduating
seniors on the 1967 American
Football Coaches Association
All-Amerlca team. They include:
—Heisman Trophy winner
Gary Beban. “It is inconcei
vable that anyone could have been
of more value to a football team
than Beban was to ours.” his
coach at UCLA, Tommy Prothro,
said;
—Syracuse fullback Larry
Csonka, who broke the Orange
rushing recordsof Jimmy Brown,
Ernie Davis and Floyd Little;
—Southern California tackle
Ron Yary, winner of the Outland
Award as the nation’s top line
man;
—Tackle Edgar Chandler, rat
ed the Southeastern Conference’s
top lineman and one of college
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47 CONVFNIENT LOCATIONS
(Best Coverage: News, Pictures, and Features)
John Pont of Indiana will coach
the East and Dee Andros of Ore
gon State will direct the West
in the Coaches All-America foot
ball game June 28.
Bill Murray, executive direc
tor of the American Football
Coaches Association, said Friday
Doug Dickey of Tennessee and Joe
Paterno of Penn State will
assist Pont, and backing up An
dros will be Chuck Fairbanks
of Oklahoma and Lloyd Eaton
of Wyoming.
football’s quickest tackles ever.
Two Improvements in schedul
ing of the All-America game have
already been announced. First
of all, the game will be played
on June 28th, one week earlier
in the year than last year’s game,
played on humid July Bth.
Secondly, the ’6B game will be
gin at 8:30 p.m. That’s an hour
earlier than last year’s game,
which started late for TV.
The East defeated the West,
12-9, in the 1967 game, the
second played at Atlanta Stadium.
The All-Amerlca game originat
ed In Buffalo, N.Y. in 1961.
MARKING HEART’S
20th BIRTHDAY
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DR. PAUL DUDLEY
WHITE, famed cardiolo
gist, cuts cake in celebra
tion of American Heart
Association's twentieth an
niversary and to mark the
Heart Fund Campaign be
ing conducted nationally
throughout February.
“Postage will be so high,
when they come around for
taxes I'm gonna tell them:
I'm sorry. I gave at the post
office!”
MM
By 808 GREER
News and Sports Editor
Auburn’s new coliseum, seating some 13,000 will be ready for the
Tigers’ 1968-69 basketball season. . .Bill Spivey, the Middle Geor
gian who played basketball at the University of Kentucky, is now
a member of a pro team in the Eastern League. Spivey is 7-2,
and that’s 3/8 of an inch taller than Lew Alcindor. . .LSU is the only
SEC football team who will enter the 1968 football campaign with a
winning streak alive. The Gator Bowl in Jacksonville now ranks
second in post-season bowl game presentations. They had two this
past season (Gator Bowl game Dec. 30 and AFL All-Star game Jan.
21). The Orange Bowl had four tilts.
Bart Starr of Green Bay seems to like those Corvette cars
that Sport Magazine gives to the Super Bowl Most Valuable Play
er each year. He has won the car for his performance in the past
two Super Bowl games . . . After five years of a steady increase
in attendance at National League baseball games, the loop showed
a slight decrease last year . . . Atlanta Braves Manager Luman
Harris does not want his team to say anything about that seventh
place finish last year. He says that the Braves are definitely
moving up this season . . . Tae Southwest Conference has not
produced a single basketball player in the NBA pro league.
To show you that children are sometimes smarter than adults, we
cite this case: A young boy waspulling a log chain along a sidewalk,
when someone asked why he was pulling the chain. He replied: “Did
you ever try pushing one?”. . .Georgia Tech will get the 1968 foot
ball season off with four straight games at Atlanta. They are (in or
der): TCU, Miami of Florida, Clemson and Tennessee, . .Newton
Rams’ victory in the Invitational championship game Saturday night
was the closest ever recorded in the 16-year history of the meet. The
Rams edged Rockdale County in overtime 55-47.
And now I have found the author of one of my favorite mottoes:
"And I have often heard defended—Little said is soonest mended.”
He is George Wither. . .Dorinda Aaron, daughter of the Henry
Aarons of the Braves, will be six years old on February sth, and
that’s the same birthday anniversary as her father. . .The Liberty
Bowl Bound Georgia Bulldogs press brochure, in reviewing past
bowl games of the Bulldogs, fails to mention that two of the bowl
victories were over teams with great individual performers: Charlie
(Choo Choo) Justice of North Carolina in the Sugar Bowl, and Donnie
Anderson of Texas Tech in the Sun Bowl.
§ News Notes From
f By Miss Irene Harvey r
Mrs. Paul Stewart with Mr. and
Mrs. Preston Johnson of High
Point visited Mrs. Bell Blanton
and Mrs. Lean Cobb Sunday af
ternoon in the Bethany Commu
nity.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Stewart
were Sunday evening supper gu
ests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cr
umbly in Kellytown.
** * *
Clyde Weldon of Griffin, Mr.
and Mrs. Hulon Capes of Oak
Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Riley
Stewart were visitors Sunday af
ternoon of W. D. Weldon, Mr.
and Mrs. John Weldon and Miss
Gay Weldon.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Tomlin
had as their guests Sunday Mr.
and Mrs. Watson Smith of Ha
peville. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Knox were visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Tomlin Saturday evening.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. J. O. Black and Miss
Ida Black of Atlanta visited Mi
sses Bell, Leila and Eva Gard
ner Sunday.
*♦ * *
Mrs. Eva Loden of Decatur
and Misses Eloise Clark and
Robbie Harvey of Atlanta were
visitors Sunday afternoon of Mrs.
Ola y. Thacker and Miss Irene
Harvey.
x* * *
Word was received here this
morning, Monday, that Mrs. Fa
nnie lummus Thompson of El
lenwood passed away Sunday ni
ght at Georgia Baptist Hospital.
She is formerly of the Rocky
Plains Community. Our hearts
go out to her family in love and
sympathy.
** * *
Pam and Tim Cook of Jack
son spent the weekend with th
eir grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Stewart.
** * *
Miss Eva Gardner and Ste
wart Thompson are patients at
Newton County Hospital. Our
prayers are that they may soon
be restored to good health.
»x ♦ »
Mrs. R. L. Ellington visited
her sister, Mrs. Ralph Malcom,
Tuesday in Bostwick. Mrs. Mal
com is ill at this time. We wish
for her a speedy recovery.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Delton Caln of Atlanta
was the dinner guest Tuesday of
her grandmother, Mrs. C. E.
Chesnut.
♦♦ * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee Floyd
and Wanda of Marietta visited
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boozer and
family and Mr. and Mrs. David
Lee Floyd Saturday afternoon.
** * *
Mrs. Mary Rosser of McDo
nough and R. E. Chesnut were
Saturday dinner guests of Mrs.
C. E. Chesnut and J. W. Ches
nut.
** * •
Those from Hopewell A. R.
Presbyterian Church who recen
tly attended the North Georgia
Men's Association at Tucker
were Rev. Wayne Dickson, J. W.
Chesnut, R. F. Chesnut, R. E.
Avery, J. F. Harvey and Aubrey
W. Harvey.
** * *
Mrs. Sadie Parrish spent Sat-
urday with Mrs. Henry Boozer.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Chesnut
and Charles were Sunday dinner
guests of Mrs. C. E. Chesnut and
J. W. Chesnut.
** ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boozer and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Howard visited Mr. and Mrs. Lu
ther Phillips and Mrs. D. L.
Floyd Sunday afternoon in At
lanta.
♦* * *
The Rocky Plains community
lost a valuable citizen, Miss Ruth
Davis, on January 12. Her life
bears witness to her faith and
loyalty to the church and her
hospitality to friends and re
latives and her interest in the
activities of the community. We
shall miss the happy fellowship
we shared many years. We ex
tend our deepest sympathy to her
loved ones.
xx x x
All who are ill have our best
wishes for an early recovery,
and the bereaved have our sin
cere sympathy.
§ News Notes From $
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A Mrs. J. I Bin ns a
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Elling
ton, Sr. motored to Augusta on
Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Kitchens who are shut-ins.
** * *
Mrs. Sara Curtis and daughter
of Atlanta spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stand
ard and family.
♦♦ * x
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Miller
and daughter visited their mother
and grandmother, Mrs. L. N.
Miller, at Jenkinsburg Nursing
Home Saturday afternoon.
xx x x
Several are on the sick list at
present; Mrs. R. L. Chambers,
Mrs. Boyce Loyd, Mrs. James
Standard, G. W. Ramsey and O. E.
White. Best wishes are extend
ed to all of them.
♦» ♦ x
Mrs. Larry Capps and son of
Huntsville, Alabama are spend
ing some time with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Bailey.
xx x x
Sincere sympathy is extended
to Mr. and MRS. H. W. Childs
and Mr. and Mrs. Reece Childs
on the loss of their father, B. C.
Childs of the Zion community.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Harvey
went to Jersey Sunday afternoon
and visited relatives and friends.
** * *
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Taylor
and family of Atlanta were the
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Yancey.
XX » »
Mr. and Mrs. George White’s
guests for the weekend were
Bobby Hiatte and daughters from
Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
** * X
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jones,
Donna of Pendergrass had dinner
with Mr. and Mrs. Tapp Jones
and Mrs. Hubert Grier on Sun
day. In the afternoon, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Bell of Atlanta and
Sam Jones of Clarkston visited
them.
XX X X
Mrs. Julia Smith joined Mr.
and Mrs. Hardy Ogletree of Con
yers and motored to Cedartown
and spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Burkhalter.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
New Social Security
Amendments Explained
President Lyndon Johnson has
signed into law the 1967 Amend
ments to the Social Security Act.
"The Amendments make major
changes In all four categories of
the law. Old-age, Survivors, Di
sability, and Health Insurance are
affected,” says John H. Ingle, At
lanta Social Security District Ma
nager.
The new law provides for an
across-the-board increase in
monthly payments to all 23 mil
lion beneficiaries now on the
rolls. The increase will aver
age 14.1 percent. The minimum
increase will be 13 percent. For
all those who began receiving
benefits at age 65 or older, the
new minimum monthly benefit is
raised from $44.00 to $55.00.
"No action Is necessary on the
part of beneficiaries to receive
the increased amounts,” Ingle
said. "The raises will be ef
fective for the month of February
1968 and will show up in checks
Patrol Revoked
45,189 Driver’s
Licenses In '67
ATLANTA (GPS) —As a result
of the Georgia State Patrol’s st
ricter enforcement policy, mo
re traffic lawbreakers lost their
driving privileges last year than
in 1966.
A total of 45,189 driver’s li
censes were revoked, suspended
or cancelled during 1967, an in
crease of 3,147, or 7.5 per cent,
it was revealed in a Georgia De
partment of Public Safety report
released by Col. R. H. Burson,
director.
A breakdown of last year’s
action taken by the patrol shows
that of the 11,590 revocations,
11,274 were for driving under the
influence of intoxicants, 230 for
leaving the scene of an acci
dent, 37 for transporting whis
ky, 31 for hit-and-run accidents,
and 18 for all other offenses.
Os the 33,595 suspensions,
7,549 were for failure to have
liability insurance coverage when
involved in a hazardous violat
ion. Second highest, 3,707, was
for committing two hazardous
violations within 12 months. In
third place was speeding with
2,835 drivers grounded.
Among the other leading cau
ses were: Driving while license
was revoked, suspended or can
celled, 1,376; persistent viola
tors, 657; stop sign or red light
violators, 557; following too close
to another vehicle, 451; reckless
driving, 296; failure to yield
right-of-way, 285,
STATE & COUNTY
& INTANGIBLES
TAXES
ARE DUE
DUE TO LATE NOTICES THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 1, 1968
Your Prompt Attention
Will Be Appreciated.
Respectfully yours to serve,
B. L. JOHNSON
TAX COMMISSIONER
NEWTON COUNTY
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Best Results)
which come early in March.”
The Amendments provide for
increased social security taxes
for all workers who earn over
$6600 per year. In 1967 only
the first $6600 of annual earnings
was taxed. Beginning in 1968
the new earnings base is S7BOO.
In 1968 and thereafter, workers
will pay the social security tax
on the first S7BOO of annual ear
nings, The tax rate of 4.4%fr0m
employee and employer in effect
for 1967 remains the same in
1968 with gradual increases be
ginning in 1969. The maximum
tax rate under the new law will
be 5.9% beginning in 1987.
Younger workers who will be
working under the new S7BOO per
year maximum can receive re
tirement benefits in the future far
in excess of the 13% raise grant
ed to those already on the rolls.
Those who received the old ma
ximum of $135.90 will be raised
to $160.50. Under the old law,
with top average earnings of
$6600, the maximum future be
nefit was to have been $168.00.
Under the new S7BOO base, some
younger workers may eventually
qualify for a monthly retirement
benefit of $218.00. This higher
benefit will not be paid for se
veral years in the future.
Persons who have qualified for
the "special age 72” benefit will
also receive raises in March.
These are people who were at
least 72 years old prior to 1968
who are not eligible for regular
social security benefits or bene
fits from any other governmental
agency. "Special age 72” pay
ments will go up from $35.00 per
month to $40.00 per month. The
benefit to a married couple, both
over age 72, will be raised
from $52.00 to $60.00 per month.
The Amendments allow higher
annual earnings with no loss in
benefits. Formerly, beneficiar
ies would lose some benefits if
annual earnings were more than
SISOO. This amount has been
raised to SI6BO effective for
1968. The amount which can be
earned on a monthly basis has
been raised from $125 to $l4O
effective January 1968. This pro
vision will affect about 760,000
beneficiaries who plan to work
in 1968.
A major change in the law con
cerns disabled widows. The new
law provides for monthly benefits
to totally disabled widows beginn
ing at age 50. Widows and de-
JANUARY IS WANT AD MONTH
(So are February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December)
Stave Day Mamed Outstanding Saldiar
Specialist 4 Stephen T. Day (right), son of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Day, 6111 Newton Drive, Covington, has been named the U. S. Army
Fourth Recruiting District’s outstanding soldier for the fourth quar
ter of calendar year 1967. He is shown above receiving the congrat
ulations of Lt. B. N. Powell, U. S. Navy, the Deputy Commander of
the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station, Oklahoma City,
Okla., where Day is in charge of the testing unit. The citation ac
companying the award of a SSO U. S. Savings Bond commended Day
for his "proven demonstration of sound judgment, leadership, ini
tiative and efficiency.” Day won the award in competition with all
enlisted men in the grade of E-4 and below of all three armed ser
vices assigned to the five-state recruiting district.
pendent widowers who were dis
abled before their spouse died,
or who became disabled within
seven years from the date the
spouse died, may now qualify at
age 50 for benefits on the de
ceased spouse’s social security
record. Claims may be filed
immediately, but benefits under
this provision will first be pay
able for the month of February
1968.
The work requirements for
disability benefits for those who
became disabled at an early age
have been changed. Workers who
became disabled prior to age 31
may now meet the work require
ment without having five years of
work in the previous 10 years as
is required of most disabled wor
kers. Those who became disab
led prior to age 31 and did not
meet the work requirements of
the old law should inquire again
at the social security office.
The new law also changes the
definition of disability with re
spect to blindness-some blind
people might now qualify as dis
abled under a more liberal defi
nition of blindness.
Thursday, January 25, 1968
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