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COMMENTS
Have you ever been questioned by a researcher
compiling data for one of those political polls we
see quoted in the paper all the time? Do you know,
personally, anyone who has been interviewed? It
happens that we can answer both those questions in
the negative,
Indeed, we have wondered many times whatbreed
of cat was being sampled to get some of those sta
tistics that purport to tell us what the mood of the
country is on this political candidate or that one,
But now there has been a poll in which this data
is clear and we are glad to convey the findings of
this poll as supplied to the press,
First, you must understand thatall of those polled
were men, Exactly 72 of them filled out the ques
tionnaire, Further, it was recorded that 77,6 per
cent of those polled' were Democrats, It is not our
purpose to read any particular significance into that
fact, We simply report it and ask that you not lose
sight of it in evaluating the poll,
It is also revealed that in subsequent interviews
several of those polled indicated that they did not
plan to vote in the elections this year, At least
A Columnist Newspaper
In New York, where newspapers have been
strangled to death in recent vears by costly de
mands from an excessive number of bargaining
unions, a new daily has been organized and be
gins publication March 11th,
The interesting part of the story is thatthe new
tabloid will not cover spot news, It will be an
outlet, primarily, for columnists put out of work
recenuy by newspaper closures — and a source
where former loyal readers can once again scan
their views,
In other words, the paper will be, primarily,
an editorial or opinion paper, not a newspaper,
in reality, It will thus be, in one way, a bit clo
ser kin to news magazines which really deal
more in color and interpretation and a certain
slant than to newspapers,
There is, perhaps, a place for such papers
The last thing in the world that we would wish
to do in this space is to generatedisunity and name
calling in the home, We fully realize that there
is some risk of doing that in printing here some
figures compiled by the Department of Agricul
ture, But somebody, or maybe many bodies, in
that sprawling Department has separated the bread
winners in this country into moderates and liberals,
It seemed to us that you would want to know how
you rate,
According to the Department of Agriculture, if
‘your children have flown the coop and youand your
‘wife are livufi..alone now, you'll qualify as a lib
eral if you give your good wife $19.69 a week
for groceries, If you’re content to be only a
moderate, then you can get by ifyou hand over only
$17.90, Anything less than that and you're a
dirty name of some kind with the Department of
Agriculture-and maybe with your wife, too,
But, if you have a boy, age 9 to 12, and a teen
age girl aged 12 to 15, then the food bill is some
thing else again, says the Department. The ante
for feeding yourself, wife and two youngsters,
is $36.20. That's the moderate-rating figure,
To qualify as a liberal, you'd better be turning
The year 1967 was surely one of the greatest yea
rs for sports in history. The 100-to-1-shot Boston
Red Sox scrambled to the American League champ
ionship. The patched-together Green Bay Packers
brought off another world championship, The search
was begun for a new world’s champion heavy-weight
boxer, The names Brock, Starr, Shoemaker, Cepeda
and Yastrzemski became household words,
But somehow or other the mostaccomplished ath
lete in the land failed toget the recognition he dese
rved, This is a man who can straddle a fence and
still keep an ear to the ground, minister to Senator
McCarthy with one hand while “supporting’’ Presi
dent Johnson with the other, plant his feet in Hippie
land, his heart in the White House, his head in the
clouds and his weight in New York, It seems im
possible that he has any bones in his body.
For those who will accept Bobby Kennedy as the
pin-up athlete of the year we submit two quotes wh
No Substitute For Railroads
Railroaders have received a pat on the back
from a source that should know what it is talking
about--a locomotive manufacturer, After a com
prehensive study of the railroad industry, the
manufacturer arrived at some conclusions which
were included in an attractive brochure entitled,
““New Ways toßunßailroads,”” Among other things,
the brochure states: ‘‘Railroads have pulled away
from the past and headed into the future, Even
in this Space Age they can become incomparably
the most versatile form of transportation,”’
The brochure notes some major innovations that
brighten the railroad outlook, Among them are
the industry’s increasingly effective use of elect
ronic computers, automation of the huge class
ification yards where freight trains are broken
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
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one, when asked why not, replied: ““I can’t, I'm
an ex-con,”’
We cite this fact to substantiate the candor with
which the 72 men responded to the questionnaire,
Clearly there was no intent to mislead the poll
sters, nor to hide real feelings and intentions,
According to the poll-takers, 81 percent of those
polled (81,9, actually) believe that Lyndon Johnson
will be re-elected President of the United States,
However, only 54,2 percent recorded that they con
sidered him the best man for the job, Still, that is
a striking majority, and make no mistake but that
Lyndon Johnson would gladly settle for 54.2 per
cent of the nationwide vote on election day, Since
each of the respondents has been properly identi
fied, it is possible to accept the authenticity of the
findings,
You see, all 72 men polled were residents at the
Bowery Mission in New York City. All 72 polled
are skid-row derelicts, The purpose of the poll was
to see if the men were ‘‘in touch with the world,”
And the ““world’”’ now knows that Lyndon Johnson
wins the skid row vote,
in other cities and towns, But it should be kept
in mind by the average reader, and editor, that
the great, traditional strength of the American
press has been built on two foundations: (1)-
Diversified and independent ownership and (2)
-impartial reporting of news in the news col
umns,
Chain ownership raises questions which give
cause for serious thought, if the process is car
ried too far, So, too, does any trend which th
reatens the cardinal and traditional principle of
impartial printing of the facts in news stories,
with opinions and editorials reserved for the
columns and editorials, Only with a chance to
read the facts for himself can the average Am
erican acquire the background to develop an infor
med, objective opinion and only in newspapers
is this process really possible,
over $41,80 to the boss-lady.
There are some Departmental ground rules:
the above figures do not include taking the lit
tle woman, or the family, out to a restaurant
for a meal any time during the week, nor are
any snacks thrown in, If you want to nibble on
some thing while you read these lines you’re
going to have to pay extra. That goes for any
between-meals snacks the teenagers in the family
consume, too,
According to the Department, that teen-age
girlimthe-family eats more than either her father,
mother or younger brother, But we don’t find
any statistics covering the eventuality that the teen
ager in the family is a boy, instead of a girl, And
any bread-winner knows that a teen-age boy can eat
more than all the rest of the family at any one sit
ting and still need folding money a couple of times
a week for snacks,
One further caution, dad, In establishing your
status as a moderate or liberal, you’d better add
3 percent to the Department’s figures, That's
how much food prices for home use will go up
during the year, That increase may affect your
rating,
ich may be clipped to the photograph, In December,
1967, he told a TV audience: ‘‘We’re killing South
Vietnamese, we’re killing women, we’re killing in
nocent peopie because we don’t want to have the war
fought on American soil, or because they’re 12,000
miles away and they might get 11,000 miles away,"
“‘Do we have that right here in the United States to
perform these acts because we want toprotect ours
elves? This is our responsibility-we must feel it
when we use napalm, whena village is destroyed and
civilians are killed,”’
Alongside this 1967 quote, we suggesta bold-face
reprint of athletic Bobby’s statement made in Saig
on, in February, 1962; ‘‘We're going to winthe war
in Vietnam, We will remain until we do win, ...
I think the American people understand and fully
support the struggle,”’
Somehow, the hawk of 1962 has mated with the do
ve of 1967,
up, reassembled and dispatched, Development of
new types of rail services‘ such as unit trains,
Improvements in railroads’ rolling stock, The
possibility that new types of high-speed rail ser
vice can be developed for densely-populated areas,
Beyond improvements in the physical plant and
the introduction of electronic marvels, the bro
chure says the most promising sign of all for the
future of the railroads is, ‘‘the way that rail
roaders are revolutionizing themselves, With
only a little more elbow room, they have begun
to apply old-fashioned ingenuity and the most
modern technology to every aspect of their busi
ness.’”” Not so many years ago, the railroads
were frequently referred to as a dying industry,
As Mark Twain might have said, the report of
their imminent demise was grossly exaggerated,
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
CHRIST. the HUMBLE SERVANT
Devotional Reading: Philipp=-
ippians 2: 1-11
Memory Selection: I amamong
you as one who serves, Luke 22:
27
Intermediate-Senior Topic:
Who Is Great?
Young People-Adult Topic:
Christ, Our E;(ar_nple in Service,
In last week’s lesson we beheld
our Lord’s greatest miracle, He
loved the members of the house
hold consisting of Lazarus and his
two sisters, Martha and Mary,
Lazarus died, and to the amaze
ment of his disciples Jesus did not
hurry to the home to comfort
Martha and Mary, but‘‘abode two
days still in the same place where
he was’’ (John11:6), Whenhear
rived at the home of his friends,
the body of Lazarus had already
been placed in the tomb,
Jesus comforted the two sis
ters, whose confidence was that
if Jesus had beenon hand the death
would not have occurred, ‘‘Thy
brother shall rise again,’”’ said
Jesus to Marha, who took his
words to mean that in the general
resurrection Lazarus would rise
from the dead, But Jesus assured
her: “I am the resurrection and
the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he
live: and whosoever liveth and be
lieveth in me shall never die”’
(John 11: 25, 26),
‘“And when he thus had spoken
(to the sisters) he cried with a
loud voice, Lazarus, come forth,
And he that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with grave=-
clothes: and his face was bound
about with a napkin, Jesus said
unto them, Loosehim, and let him
go’? (John 11: 43,44),
Following the raising of Laz=-
arus from thedead, his sisters,
Mary and Martha, prepared a
supper for their beloved friend
Jesus, and Mary took ‘‘a pound of
ointment of spikenard, very cost
ly, and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the
odor of the ointment,”’
Now we behold another supper,
at which Jesus and his disciples
alone appear to have been pre
sent, Time was passing rapidly
and Jesus well knew that cruci
fixion awaited him in the near fu
ture, He wanted to do everything
possible to prepare himselfand
his disciples for the approaching
ordeal, He had importantlessons
to teach to the very last moment of
his earthly life, He was deter=-
mined that these lessons should
be taught and that his disciples
should know the meaning thereot,
Jesus washed the disciples’
feet, and we may almost call this
episode an acted-out parable, for
by it Jesus conveyed a great mes=-
sage to his disciples, He rose
THE LEGISLETTER
As the General Assembly head
ed down the home=stretch, the
two major pieces of legislation
proposed by Governor Lester
Maddox still were to be pas=-
sed. Both houses went into Sat
urday sessions last week in an
effort to pave the way for act
ion on the budget and pardon and
parole board appointments this
week.
The Senate passed an Ssß6o
million budget for 1968-69 last
Thursday after voting down a
variety of across-the-board cuts,
agreeing not to require the Board
of Regents to say item=by-item
how it would spend its money
and refusing to move up the de
layed state employe raises. Vote
was 41-10,
Senator Battle Hall of Rome
proposed the line item change
made by the Senate Appropria=
tions Committee in opposition to
Senate President Pro Tem Julian
Webb’s move to revert to the
House version except for a change
aimed at getting federal funds to
pay retirement contributions for
sponsored teachers.
A final version of the appro
priations bill is being worked
out by a conference committee.
A bill to permit voters to de
cide whether Georgia should con
tinue under Daylight Saving Time
was killed Wednesday in the
House Industry Committee.
The measure, defeated by a
committee vote of 14 to 4, was
a last-ditch effort by opponents
of Daylight Saving Time to re
turn the state to year-round
standard time. An earlier at
tempt at outright repeal of Day=
light Saving Time failed by a
narrow margin in the House.
The House Ways and Means
Committee last week approved
a bill to fix assessment of pro=-
perty by counties for tax pur
poses at 40 percent of the true
market value. This legislation
was proposed by Governor Mad
dox after court action contested
the Revenue Department’s au
thority to approve assessments
at less than 100 percent. The
same committee assigned to a
subcommittee a Maddox bill to
double homestead exemption.
The Senate Monday (March 4)
adopted the resolution of Senator
Mac Conway of DeKalb County
requesting the State Retirement
Board to withhold pension pay=
ments to J, W, Claxton, who
recently resigned from the Par
dons and Paroles Board under
fire, until such time as he wis
given clearance by the Attorney -
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from the supper, laid aside his
outer garments, and taking a tow
el, he girded himself, poured wa
ter into a basin, and began to wash
the disciples’ feet and to wipe
them with the towel wherewithhe
was girded,
Jesus was getting himself rea~
dy, for an age-long career of hu=
man service,
First of all, Jesus laid aside his
outer garments, the long, flow
ing robe which he wore; and here
we encounter a lesson, for by
coming into the flesh the Son of
God was, under the hand of the
Heavenly Father, clothed witha
physical body.
This body in which he was cru
cified was later tobe transformed
and in the resurrection appear
ances was to do certain things that
startled and amazed his disci
ples and others of his contempo
raries,
Jesus by this time must have
been aware of his divine nature,
his divine mission, and his di
vine qualifications, He was going
into death but not into annihila
tion or ablivion, He would die
in order to bring about the for
giveness of man’s sin, his re
demption--which was the spe
cial purpose of the Father--and
the manifestation of this carpen~
ter Nazareth, this simple but a
mazing teacher, as God’s beloved
Son. He would have universal
authority, b
The washing of the feet was a
customary courtesy which all
good hosts accorded their guests,
In those days people wore only
sandals and walking along the hot,
dusty roads one found himself,
even after a short walk, uncom=-
sortable and depressed, Usually
a slave stood at the door and
washed the feet of guests as they
entered,
It was often the custom of a gra=-
cious host to move among his
guests serving them food and urg
ing them to take more, but no host
had ever been known to wash the
feet of his guests, This was a
slave’s work, Since there wasno
slave present, or in any way con
nected with the activities of the
apostles, the custom of footwash=
ing had to take place as best it
could, The disciplesheartily re
jected the idea of washing the feet
of one of their companions, This
would be a slavish type of service
not consistent with the dignity of
a free man,
But Jesus accepted the chall
enge of the situation, laid aside
his outer garments, girded him
self with a towel, and washed the
disciples’ feet, Thus he volun
tarily and gladly accepted the
role of a slave, Hedemonstrated
to his disciples what it meant to
be a humble servant,
General’s investigation.
Also to be considered this
week was a bill which would have
a special board submit nomina
tions for the Pardons and Pa
roles Board which would then
be approved by the Senate.
The corporate code revision
has passed the Senate and has
gone to the House where it was
assigned to the Special Judiciary
Committee. Time permitting,
proponents feel that it will pass.
This tightens and streamlines
the loose laws governing corpor=-
ations in Georgia and the mea=-
sure has the endorsement of many
businesses and organizations in
the state.
A liberalized abortion law was
passed in final form by the Gen
eral Assembly early last week.
There was much speculation that
the measure might run into a
veto by Governor Maddox until
he stated later in the week that
he thought the bill probably has
enough safeguards against
““abortion mills’’ and indicated he
is inclined to sign the bill into
luW.
PARENT-TEACHER
By Mrs, Robert I, Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
As 1 look around the Tenth
District Division of the Georgia
Congress of Parents and
Teachers, I see many organiza
tions doing excellent work for the
good of the community, How=-
ever many are overlapping one
another, This is due to a lack
of cooperation between agencies
and organizations within a com=
munity, Perhaps this is because
many think the word cooperating
means joining or participation in
membership enrollment, This is
not true, Cooperation simply
means ‘‘Working together”; to
cooperate is to act jointly,
The Parent=Teacher Associa=-
tions cooperate with two types of
Organization, (a) OFFICIAL
(local, state, and federal) such
as Health Department, State De=-
partment of Education; (b) PRO
FESSIONAL Organizations, such
as Medical, dental, library, GEA,
ete,
We cooperate with agencies
whose work is related to the
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Best Results)
Covington, Georgia
February 29, 1968
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Att: Mrs, Dennis, Owner
Dear Friends:
I have lived quite a long time
in Newton County with The Cov=
ington News and appreciated the
many fine things they did through
the years without charge for
things like ¢The March of
Dimes’” as 1 was the leader
for 12 years in the polio sit
uation and Herbert Vining was
treasurer for the same; and also
you have given many fine items
in print for the Rotary Club and
many more fine things done for
the good of Newton County.
Your classified ad work by
Helen Jenkins and Gwen Ham
mond have really gone into the
‘pig league’’ ad in advertising.
I hope to enjoy the ‘¢new”’
Covington News, their pictures
and many other fine things, and
I congratulate the entire staff
and all employees.
Sincerely,
Aubra L. Sherwood
SEN. PENNINGTON
AT THE CAPITOL
With less than a week left
in the 1968 Session, the Gener
al Assembly ‘worked into the
night twice and met on Satur
day this week considering legis=
lation that was before them.
The Senate passed the Appro
priations = Bill with numerous
amendments to the House ver
sion. Following bitter debate,
they failed to pass an across
the-board reduction in expendi
tures of 2%. Senator Brooks
Pennington of Madison, Georgia,
who supported the cut, stated it
was ‘“‘ridiculous to think such
a cut would cripple any depart
ment or program.’”” He further
said, ¢‘had this been adopted,
it could possibly have prevented
the probability of a tax increase
in 1969.”
The Senate also tabled until
next week the controversial Lo
cal Option Sales Tax Bill. Ask=-
ed why he opposed this bill, Sen
ator Pennington said: ¢‘The pas=-
sage of this bill and ultimate
implementation of it by the lar
ger cities would drain tax re
venues away from the areas sur=-
rounding these municipalities,
such as Atlanta. While giving
the larger cities the relief they
need, it would only cause addi
tional burdens on the small ci
ties by causing such a tax drain.
It is unfair to aid one segment
of the state at the expense of
another.”’
The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee met every day during the
week to consider the many bills
coming before it. Among those
passed out of the Committee were
bills pertaining to marketing
agreements, Game and Fish De
partment regulations, conserva=-
tion, disposition of the farm at
Central State Hospital and the Ag
ricultural Commodities Com
mission Act which would enable
producers of agricultural pro
ducts to label them as Georgia
grown and promote their sale
to greater advantage to the in
dividual farmer producer.
Voted “do pass’’ by this Com
mittee was another bill which
would serve to remove the sales
tax on farm machinery, giving
the agriculture industry a more
equitable footing with other in
dustries in the state which al=-
ready have such tax relief.
Senator Pennington on Monday
passed through the Senate a Con
stitutional Amendment that if
passed by the House and rati
fied by the people in the Novem
ber General Election, would as
sure the enforcement of laws
which might be later passed by
the General Assembly concern=-
ing the marketing of milk. “This
would assure the housewife of
an adequate supply of wholesome
milk at a reasonable price and
would in turn guarantee to the
dairy farmer a fair return on
his investment and just compen=
sation for his labor in the pro
duction of milk,”” he said.
After arguing the merits of
the bill for almost an entire
morning, Senator Penningtonwas
elated by the overwhelming ma
jority the bill received in the
Senate. In fact, this piece of
legislation received the greatest
number of votes of any contro
versial Constitutional Amend
ment considered this Session.
Continuing a heavy speaking
schedule, Senator Pennington
spoke Monday night to the South
Fulton County Farm Bureau on
agriculture legislation pending
before the General Assembly and
on Tuesday night was in Monroe
to address the meeting of the
Monroe Pilot Club on ‘‘State
Government’’,
Wednesday, February 28, the
Senator was guest speaker in
Atlanta at the Georgia Agri Bus
iness Council where he spoke
on legislation now in the General
Assembly and the effects it would
have on Georgia Agriculture.
welfare of children and families
and rely on them for information
and service, Neverdoesthe PTA
seek to direct their administra=
tive activities nor to control
their policies.
I strongly urge all community
agencies and organizations, ser
ving youth, to seek understanding
and knowledge of each other’s
programs in order to achieve
the most fruitful cooperation, re
sults, and responsible leader
ship.
County fire protection in coun=
ties across the state that are
growing in population is no long=-
er considered to be a luxury.
It is a necessity that is being
demanded by the tax paying ci
tizens. Such is the case in
Newton County.
If you own a home outside the
incorporated city limits of any
city or town in Newton County
you have no fire protection what
soever provided by your county.
Not only that, you pay a pre=
mium insurance rate eachyear to
keep your home covered.
In a fact that directly touches
your pocketbook, you pay approx=
imately $40.00 more per year in
fire insurance on a $25,000 home
than you would if you had county
fire protection.
Under consideration by County
Commissioner Tom Bates and
his Advisory Staff for the past
several months has been the
possibility of purchasinga county
fire turck.
If any decision on the purchase
or any investigation into the cost
of buying and maintaining a coun
ty fire truck has been made the
results have not been made known
to the people of Newton County.
Rockdale County, next door to
us, presently has one county fire
truck, two full time firemen who
work on 24 hour alternating
shifts, and 22 volunteer firemen
who are paid SI.OO per call.
Rockdale County Commission=-
er Bobby Brisendine has said
WORDS TO LIVE BY
Tom White
Covington Presbyterian Church
‘“IN THE HANDS
OF CHRIST SMALL THINGS
MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE,”’
In the Gospel of John we see
our subject acted out, John tells
us that Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother discovers a lad withbar=-
ley loaves, and two small fishes,
The full text reads: ¢‘Thereis a
lad here, which hath five barley
loaves, and two small fishes:
but what are theyamong so many?
Now it is indeed interesting to
note that part of the charm of
the Gospel is in the delightful
manner with which incidents that
the historian of great fame would
treat as ordinaryare inter-woven
in the sacred record with events
of vast importance!
For an example, take the fam=-
ily scene of Bethany and the
Widow casting her two mites into
the Temple treasury. Although
we cannot compare such incidents
with the Transfiguration or the
Crucifixion, or the Resurrection,
yet they fall naturally in their
pgaces; they stand with equal im=
portance in teaching us the sub
lime lesson of life, :
Yet, in no way do the minor
incidents of the Bible appear tri=-
vial or out of place in compari
son with the great events of the
Bible, but rather like King Midas
of whom the Greeks claimed in
their mythology could turn every=-
thing into gold by his touch,,..
so it can be said of our blessed
Lord, that everything he touched
far exceeded that of gold. At
his touch the smallest things took
on new life,
I am not advocating that minor
incidents are unique within them
selves, as a matter of fact, they
are never unique until Christhas
something to do with them!
Never forget, my friend, that
little is always much in the hands
of Christ, Take for instance the
scene in the Gospel narrative
where our Lord stops and plucks
Layona Glenn
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Hi! Folks! How is everybody?
I’ve been laid up for nearly a
month with flu, andbelieve me its
no fun! About the only thing that
kept me alive was the good care
of my dear friend, Jennie Jenkins,
who also lives here at Wesley
Woods and keeps an eye on the
““Old Lady,’’ taking care that the
housekeeper sends me a bite to
eat when the time rolls around,
which seems almost unbelievably
Ofteno
The weather bureau has cer-
DAILY INTAKE of pesticide
chemicals in a well - balanced
American diet is ‘“substantially
below’” acceptable ‘‘safe’” limits,
reports the Food and Drug Ad
ministration, The FDA conclu
sion came after a two- year
survey conducted in 25 cities,
THE BLUE WHALE femaleisa
virtual dairy. It produces some
130 gallons of milk daily for se=-
ven months while nursing its calf,
The calf is no ‘“‘small fry’’: At
birth it is about 23 feet long and
weighs up to three tons!
Thursday, March 7 , 1968
COUNTY FIRE TRUCK IS
URGENTLY NEEDED
By: Leo S. Mallard
that the county is buying two
additional fire trucks and plac.
ing them at locations inthe coun.
ty where no point in Rockdale
County will be further than five
miles from fire protection.
These two new trucks are bea
ing purchased at an open bid
price of $3,700 each from a2
local dealer; water pumps are
being bought for $1,550 each; and
the county welder is building a
1400 gallon capacity flat tank
for each truck at a cost of S6OO
each.
Hoses, hand tools, and other
necessary equipment bring the
total cost of each truck to
$6,500...and the tab is being paid
for by the collected county beer
tax.
In Henry County, another grow
ing neighbor, the county owns two
fire trucks that are manned by a
self supporting volunteer fire de
partment. The trucks are station
ed in McDonough.
Walton County has no type of
county fire protection, but some
arrangement has been made
whereby the Monroe Fire Depart
ment answers county calls at a
cost of $50.00 each.
Morgan County has no county
fire protection or any projected
plan to provide such protection,
Fire protection is a basic ser-"
vice that tax paying citizens of
a county have the right to ex
pect. It is long overdue in
Newton County and it is about
time that our county provided
this service for our citizens,
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Liue By
an ordinary lily from the com
mon field and exclaims with such
awe and reverence ‘‘that Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these!"
For Jesus, there was a whole
universe within a tiny mustard
seed. There was the concern of
God and love of the Father in
the fall of a tiny ordinary spar
row,
Never forget beloved, the night
in which our Lord took a tiny
bit of bread and a simple cup
and demonstrated the amazing
love of God for a lost and blun
dering world, And yet, some
people stumble through life with=-
out ever noticing that small things
make a big difference - especi
ally where Christ is involved!
Wordsworth writes of Peter
Bell as though the shuttles of
his eyes were half open to the
amazing beauty surrounding him.
““A Primrose by the river’s
brim
A yellow primrose was to him
And it was nothing more,”
Think for a moment of the iad’s
five barley loaves and the two
fish, Small things in the hards
of Jesus, but what a difference
when blessed of God and dedi
cated to His service! It is also
heart-warming to notice that the
Bible doesn’t care how Jesus
worked the miracle, or how God
did it. It insists on one thing
only . . .that men admit the mir
acle of God doing enough to make
man believe in His Lordship.
Small things make a differ
ence, Some unknown seer has
well said: “If you do a small
thing as if it were a great thing,
God will let you do the great
thing as if it werea small thing.”
Small things like a little kind
ness, a little courtesy, a little
courage and a little love, a lit
tle faith make a big dit‘ference
when Christ is involved, The
Bible gives us many examples of
Jesus taking the small things of
life and making a big difference,
and it may well be your life that
He seeks to bless this day!
tainly dished out some of the
worst weather that I can remems=
ber! We were snowed infor seve
eral days, It was indeed abless
ing we did not have to go outside!
--From my window Ihave aring
side view of the road leading upto
the Emory Campus, and the build
ing for communicable diseases.
For two days that road was strung
out with cars frozen almost
bumper to bumper with nothing
moving! Once inawhile one would
see a muffled up man struggling
along up or down the hill and won=
der how he could get along.
But North Georgia seems tobe
the garden spot of the earth, and
none of these conditions stay with
us too long tobe bearable. So, the
sun came out, and soon things
thawed up, and now things are
rolling along as usual. Ithankthe
Lord for North Georgia and that
He cast my lot here in this grand
old spot.
By the time these lines reach
you all,l am sure things will be
back to normal and we will all be
enjoying life once more.
So may it be!