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Aart'S OF AGRICULTURE, FAMILY LIVING AND
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES IN NEWTON COUNTY
Alcovy Watershed Association Furthers Plans For Projects
John P. Duncan
Promoted By
Southern R.R.
John P. Duncan, Jr., manag
er of Agri-Business Services,
Southern Railway System since
1963, has been promoted to di
rector, Agri-Business Services,
with headquarters remaining at
Washington, D. C., it was an
nounced by the railway.
Mr. Duncan’s new responsib
ilities will be to function within
the railway’s Sales Department
as a co-ordinate division to In
dustrial Development and Rall-
Highway Services.
Prior to joining Southern in
1963, Mr. Duncan was U. S. As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture.
Before that he was president of
the Georgia Farm Bureau.
He is a native of Quitman,
where he attended public sc
hools. He is a graduate of
Emory University and did gra
duate work in agriculture at the
University of Georgia.
ALCOVY WATERSHED Association officers look over some facts and
figures at a planning meeting held at the Walton County EMC Au
ditorium, Thursday, January 18. Newton is one of the three coun
ties covered by the watershed plan. Shown above, are from left to
right: Miller Dial, Walnut Grove, District Supervisor of Upper
Ocmulgee River Soil Conservation District and also 1968 President
of the Georgia Assn, of District Supervisors; W. H. Harben, Jr., At
hens, SCS and Staff leader for the project; William Booth, Monroe,
President of the Alcovy Watershed Assn.; and J. S. Briscoe, Jr.,
Monroe, Secretary-Treasurer of Alcovy Watershed Assn.
Tri-County Named
Certified Market
KANSAS, CITY, MISSOURI —
Tri - County Livestock Auction
Co., Social Circle, Georgia, has
gained recognition as a Certified
livestock Market, according to
an announcement today by the
trade association offices in Kan
sas City.
The Tri-County livestock Au
ction Co. thus joins the nearly
850 competitive livestock mar
kets across the nation serving the
livestock industry under the Code
of Business Standards of Certi
fied livestock Markets.
The market, under the owner
ship of Tom Dally serves its tr
ade area with regular sale days
of Monday.
The trade-name markets make
up a major element of the com
petitive livestock markets indus
try, which last year merchandi-
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RURAL and URBAN
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The Alcovy Watershed Asso
ciation met at the Walton County
EMC Auditorium, Monroe, Thur
sday January 18 to review the
programs on the plan for the
improvement and control of
flooding of the Alcovy Watershed.
Those attending from Newton
County were the directors: Sam
B. Hay, Jr., Pierce Cline, M. C.
Sherod, County Commissioner
Tom Bates and Soil Conservat
ionist Brown Nevels.
"The directors and people of
the three counties in this water
shed should be commended for the
fine working relations and the co
ordinated efforts that are being
carried out by the organization,"
an official stated.
Some of the benefits of this
project when installed will be
flood prevention of low land, silt
control, water supplies for incr
eased buildup of residential and
industrial uses, recreational de
velopments, erosion control on
all the lands within the watershed.
This will include some work
on bare areas on roadbanks,
farms and other miscellaneous
lands.
sed 109.7 million head of live
stock at a value of nearly $9
billion. This represents more
than half of all livestock sold th
rough all channels.
Trade association spokesmen
say that Certified Livestock Mar
kets have rapidly become identi
fied with three basic livestock
market business concepts; 1)
the expansion of market services
to both buyer and seller cus
tomers by which hilly competi
tive determination of prices is
established; 2)the merchandising
of livestock as a product as op
posed to the simple sale or trade
of livestock as a commodity; 3)
the assumption of industry lea
dership in applying a positive
approach in livestock merchandi
sing.
Stroke kills about 200,000
Americans yearly.
NEWTON COUNTY Directors of the Alcovy Watershed are pictured above at the association’s meeting
held January 18 at Monroe. From left to right: Sam B. Hay, Jr., Pierce Cline, M. C. Sherod and
County Commissioner Tom Bates. Soil Conservationist Brown Nevels also attended the meeting.
Snapping Shoals Watershed
Now Making Detailed Plan
Recently the Soil Conservation
Service was authorized to make
a detail plan of the Snapping Sh
oals Watershed.
Previous information assemb
led on this watershed had indic
ated that this watershed would
have much larger benefits to the
Newton and Rockdale Cduntles
than the necessary cost involved
in construction.
Local authorities were noti
fied by our members of Con
gress that they had secured this
authorization for making a de
tail plan for this watershed.
The state conservationist C. W.
Chapman, Athens, Immediately
assigned the state watershed pl
anning part number 2, headed by
John D. Bolton to make the ne
cessary study and plan. Mr. Bol
ton and his party made the pre
liminary study of this area.
Much of the engineering data
collected at that time is on file
and will be used.
Monday, January 22 the eng
ineer began work of making cer
tain engineering surveys. They
will be working from the local
offices of the Soil Conservation
Office in Newton and Rockdale
Counties.
The directors of the Snapping
Shoals watershed are: B. E.
Hatch, president; James Mann,
Carlton Kirkus, Dave Jackson,
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MEETING SCHEDULE
January 25, 2:00, West Newton,
Prospect Church.
January 31, 1:30, Brickstore.
February 1,2:30, Heard Mixon,
Clubhouse.
February 1, 7:30, Town &
Country, City Hall.
Joe Stanton and C. R. Vaughn
Jr., from Rockdale County. The
Newton County directors are:
Sam Capes, Alton Jolley, O. E.
White and C. W. Ellis.
This watershed is co-sponso
red by several organizations:
The Snapping Shoals Watershed
Association, The Upper Ocmul
gee River Soil and Water Con
servation District Supervisors,
The County Commissioners of
Rockdale and Newton County, and
the City of Conyers.
Georgia Cattlemen
Association To
Meet Feb. 4-6
Officials of the Georgia Cattle-,
men’s Association expect record
attendance when the 1968 annual
convention is held February 5 and
6 at Pine Mountain.
“Last year’s crowd of more
than 500 persons will certainly
be passed,’’ said President Jack
Tuttle, Barnesville.
Dr. Tuttle will call the meet
ing to order at 9:30 a.m. Mon
day, Feb. 5, and by the time the
convention ends at noon on Tues
day, delegates will have heard
ten speakers with up-to-date in
formation on the beef industry.
Georgia youth will be in the
spotlight at a special luncheon on
Monday. GCA will award a SSO
prize to the 4-H or FFA mem
ber who has written the best
essay on “Georgia’s Beef
Future,” and a representative of
both youth organizations will sp
eak. Jerry Bowman, state FFA
vice president, Ringgold, will
present “The FFA Outlook in
Georgia’s Beef Industry,”
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Mr. and MRS. H. L. Harwell
of Redan spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hays
♦♦ * ♦
Mrs. Jack Banks of Covington
and Mrs. Norris Banks were
supper guests of Mrs. Trellie
Banks and Mrs. Kate Morris on
Monday night.
** * *
Kim Pace of Decatur spent the
weekend with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hitchcock and
attended church with them on Sun
day.
** * *
Mrs. Starr Jones and Marion
and Mrs. C. H. Hays spent Sat
urday afternoon with Miss Bobbie
Lou Biggers at Dixie.
♦* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Acle Smith of
Jackson were supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Jones on
Sunday evening.
** * *
Mrs. W. E. Scarbrough spent
Friday night with her children
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Staples and
family of McDonough.
** * *
Jerome Morgan of Rome spent
the weekend with his father, Guy
Morgan.
** * *
Alarge number from Mansfield
attended the singing at Sewell
Church on Sunday night.
** * *
Vicki Hays spent Saturday night
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Jones.
** * *
Mrs. Clyde Grey of Atlanta is
visiting her sister, Mrs. T. G.
Turner, for several days.
** * *
Spend the day guests of Mrs.
Jim Hitchcock on Thursday were
Mrs. Richard Pace and Kim of
Decatur, Mrs. Tom Long and
Trey of Memphis, Tennessee and
Mrs. Mack Bishop, Jeff and Karen
of Covington.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. HermanKroeder
of Decatur spent Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. Trellie
Banks and Mrs. Kate Morris.
♦* * ♦
Visitors of Mrs. Mary Hays on
Sunday were Mrs. Gwendolyn
Peters and daughter of Social
Circle, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reed
of Tucker, Mrs. Mary Frances
Wofford and Mrs. Grady Hays of
Covington, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Hays, Miss Annie C. Hays and
Rev. James Lester.
♦* * *
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs.
E. C. Evans on Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Evans and
little grandson, Tim of Porter
dale, Mr. and Mrs. David Brooks
of Newborn and Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Morgan and children of
Covington.
♦♦ * ♦
Visitors of Mrs. Mattie India
Sigman on Sunday afternoon were
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harwell of
Covington and Miss Pauline
Hardman of Porterdale.
** * *
Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Wal
lace of Atlanta were weekend vis
itors of their sister, Mrs. D. T.
Vaughn. They attended church
with the Vaughns on Sunday.
** * *
Tom Greer of Covington was
the supper guest of Mrs. C. E.
Roquemore on Sunday night.
•• • *
Lamar Hays spent Tuesday In
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405 Area Rural People Improved Their
Homes With FHA Loan Funds
More than 405 rural people in
DeKalb, Newton and Rockdale
Counties have new or vastly im
proved homes as a result of
$1,150,100 in insured loan funds
advanced through the Farmers
Home Administration in the past
two years, Edgar J. Phillips local
director of the supervised credit
agency reported today. Approxi
mately $750,700 was advanced in
1967.
The rural housing program was
greatly expanded in 1965 when,
as a part of President Lyndon B.
Johnson’s efforts to strengthen
Newton County Senior 4-H Council Officers
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NEWTON COUNTY SENIOR 4-H Council officers who had a part on the 4-H Awards Program‘Mo ay
night are pictured above. Front, left to right: Sandi Ison, president; Dons Nevels, secretary-treas
urer; Jan Hitchcock, Girls vice-president; and Bill Marks, reporter. Back: leon Chaney, parliamen
tarian; and Leslie Fuller, Boys vice-president.
Atlanta on business,
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Waymon Scar
brough visited Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Scarbrough in Atlanta on Sunday.
♦* ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Jones
spent a short while on Sunday af
ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Vaughn and Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Vaughn.
** * ♦
Monday visitors of Mrs. C. E.
Roquemore were Mrs. Fred
Rutherford of Jonesboro, Mrs.
Ruth Adams of Atlanta and Miss
Ida Thompson of Covington. C. E.
Roquemore is in the Moody Nurs
ing Home. He would like to hear
from his many friends. His
address is Moody Nursing Home,
4115 Glenwood Road, Decatur,
Ga.
** * ♦
Rev. James Lester was the din
ner and supper guest of Mrs.
Mary L. Adams on Sunday.
** * *
Mrs. Owen Banks spent the
weekend in Monticello with her
mother, Mrs. D. W. Cargile.
♦* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Havs and
girls spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mr. Roy Daniels and family in
Atlanta.
** * *
Mrs. Chester Jones spent Fri
day with Mrs. Don Wood, Jr.,
Trey and Jim of Covington.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Friends of Bert Harper were
shocked and saddened by his
passing. Our sympathy is ex
tended to his family.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Clint Adams of
Jackson visited their mother,
Mrs. Mary L. Adams, on Sunday
afternoon.
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By Mrs. Frank Moss §
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Campbell of
Covington, Mrs. Bobby Herring,
Nan, Danny and Greg, Mrs. Pete
Herring, Vickie and Judy, Mr.
and Mrs. Bud Darby, Ernie and
Glynn visited with Mr. and Mrs.
B. F. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Speer Sunday afternoon.
** * *
Visitors of the Frank Moss
family have been Mrs. Pete
Campbell, Mrs. Charlie Mills,
Joe Moss and the Bud Darby
family.
** * *
Miss Brenda Hall of Chamblee
visited with her family Sunday
afternoon.
** * *
Mrs. Morris Fincher and boys
of Porterdale visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Emory Thompson and
family Saturday afternoon.
** * *
Mrs. Frank Moss and Jimmy
visited with the George Moss
family on Tuesday afternoon.
♦♦ ♦ *
Nita Darby visited with Delores
and Faith Seabolt Sunday after
noon.
** * *
Mrs. Frank Moss and Jimmy
visited with Miss Grace Taylor
Thursday evening.
The 1967 production of pecans
in Georgia is estimated at 48 mil
lion pounds by the State Crop
Reporting Service. This com
pares with 37 million pounds in
1966. However this year’s crop
is 22 percent below the 1961-
65 average
rural America, the financing of
the loans was switched from fe
deral to private funds.
Practically all of the rural hou
sing loan funds now come from
private sources on an insured
basis.
Nearly $1,098,100 of the am
ount loaned during the past two
years went to individual families.
Senior citizens, 62 years and ol
der, received $10,250.
In addition $52,000 was used
for the construction of rental
housing for rural residents, ma
inly senior citizens.
4-H Awards Program Spools
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NEWTON COUNTY’S 9th Annual 4-H Awards program was held Mon
day night at the Ficquett School cafetorium. Siown above are Sandi
Ison, Newton 4-H Council President, who presided at the meeting;
Art Hargrove Cleft), Chairman of State 4-H Leaders, made the award
presentations; and Melvin Davis, Northwest District 4-H Leader, Ex
tension Service, Athens, the guest speaker for the program.
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Thursday, January 25, 1968
The construction that took pl
ace as a part of this credit pro
gram provided 23,020 man-days
of employment for local carpen
ters, plumbers, electricians and
masons.
Farmers Home Administra
tion loans are made to applicants
unable to obtain credit elsewhere.
The program is tailored to indi
vidual needs and loans are ac
companied by technical assistan
ce from FHA office located at the
Courthouse, Covington.