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Rotary Top Ten Banquet
The Top Ten Banquet, sponsored annually by
Covington Rotary Club to honor the Top Ten
students of NCHS senior class, is scheduled for
Tuesday night, March 26, at E. L. Ficquett Cafe
torium.
This recognition of scholastic achievement of our
young people by Rotarians, is to be highly com
mended. It is good to see studiousness and mental
achievement rewarded, in a day which some
times places too much emphasis upon activities
Lawyers To Study Crime In Streets
The top criminal lawyers in the country will
gather in Washington, D.C. on March 22 and 23
to answer the troublesome questions of how to
control—legally--crime in our streets.
Taking a cue from President Johnson’s call
for action to solve the crisis in our cities in
an all-out battle against crime—in all forms—the
25,000-member American Trial Lawyers Asso
ciation will present the criminal law giants at
a seminar in the Shoreham Hotel to answer such
perplexing questions as;
Should police be given special leeway—such
as wider use of wire-tapping, electronic sur
veillance, harassing tactics-or should existing
judicial machinery be changed to disclose evi
dence of organized crime?
Should censorship be imposed on the news
midia—before and during a criminal trial—to
insure “fair trial” of a criminal defendant?
Is public corruption the key to organized
crime?
How much reform does the public really
want? And have Supreme Court decisions en-
Social Security Here To Stay
Social Security is a “necessary program; it’s
here to stay, and all of us, particularly those
of us in business who pay half the tax load and
collect the other half must see that it is kept
strong, and centered on purposes which it can best
serve,” stated Mr. Allan Shivers, president of
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Life’s disciplines begin with discipline of the
mind; and therein lies the moral, mental and
physical strength of an individual or a nation.
Upon well trained and disciplined minds the future
of America depends.
It is a privilege to extend sincere congratu
lations to these Top Ten Seniors, and to Coving
ton Rotary Club for giving them due recognition.
1 oangered the public’s safety by drastically as-
I fecting police practices in order to protect
i the criminally accused?
Realizing that the answers to these questions
must lie within the framework of the Constitu
। tion to preserve law and order and maintain
respect for our enforcement bureaus, ATL Na
tional Criminal Law Seminar chairman, Verne
Lawyer of Des Moines, la., declared:
“The solutions to these troublesome issues—
ones which have divided the law enforcement
official from the bench and the bar in many
instances--must be decided in the trial pits of
our courts and thrashed out in the adversary system
of justice.
“It is with this understanding that the ATL
bar has invited every attorney on the east coast
to attend the non-profit seminar at the Shoreham
Hotel to hear and see the men who today are
fashioning the changes in criminal law and bring
ing out decisions which will affect every citizen
on the streets of our nation.”
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
He added; “We must be ever on guard to keep
the program from veering off into a relief pro
gram, or into other unrelated channels...We must
protect Social Security from these invasions.”
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
Abiding in Christ
Devotional Reading: John 15:
1-5
Memory Selection: I am the
vine, you are the branches. He
who abides in me, and I in him,
he it is that bears much fruit,
for apart from me you can do
nothing. John 15:5
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
The Life That Counts
Young People-Adult Topic: A
Living Relationship
All too often we look at our
Christian faith in terms of‘‘join
ing the church” and participating
in the activities. We enjoy the
fellowship of the church and find
new friends in this relationship.
We make our financial contri
butions as though we were pay
ing dues to some club to which
we belong.
If this is the extent to which
the church lays its claim upon
us, then we have missed the real
point of church membership. The
church asks much more of us.
She seeks our devotion and our
life far beyond the outward ev
idences of our membership.
In today’s lesson we see the
broader aspects of the Christian
faith. Emphasis, here, is placed
upon the need for Christians to
surrender their lives to Jesus
Chirst and to discipline them
selves accordingly.
The spiritual disciplines of our
religion—prayer, worship, and
obedient living—demand that we
live in closer fellowship with
Jesus Christ.
Those who regard their church
as an instrument of grace rather
than as an organization or club
find that their Christian lives
are fruitful and productive. They
realize that their religion impels
them to live more like the Master
day by day. They discover that
their love for Jesus Christ im
plies obedience to his commands.
Jesus used the illustration of
the vine and the branches to show
us what the relationship should
be between himself and the mem
bers of the church that bears
his name.
The Gospel of John is full of
meaning for all who read its
pages. John sought to give us
an account of our Lord’s life
different from that of the Syno
ptic Gospel writers. His theme
was the deity of Jesus Christ.
He set forth his divine Sonship.
He declared that Jesus was none
other than the “only begotten of
the Father,” yet this selfsame
Jesus was made flesh and dwelt
among us. His mission was to
declare who God is.
With reverent regard for the
Saviour, John found occasion in
the Gospel bearing his name to
reveal how Jesus revealed the
secret of the Christian life to
his disciples. John 15 portrays
how the believer is joined to
Christ.
To abide in Jesus means to be
joined to him as the branch of
a tree is joined to the trunk.
Jesus declared himself to be
the “true vine.” Using this met
aphor, he employed a figure of
speech that draws a parallel be-
"WORDS TO LIVE BY”
by Bob L. Bowden
WISDOM DICTATES
Wisdom says, “A cheerful
heart Is a good medicine (Pr.
17; 22)”. This, is sound coun
sel for both the young and the
old. But we highly suspect the
question is not put until a per
son asks himself "What has hap
pened to me?” "How do I know
that my youth is all spent? Well,
my get up and go has got up
and went, but in spite of it all,
I am able to grin, when I think
of the places my get up has been.
Old age is golden, so I’ve heard
said, but sometimes I wonder
as I hop into bed, with my ears
in a drawer, my teeth in a cup,
and my eyes on the table, ’til
I wake up. Ere sleep dim my
eyes I say to myself, “Is there
anything else I can lay on the
shelf?” And I’m happy to say
as I close my door, my
friends are the same, perhaps
even more. When 1 was a young
thing my slippers were red, I
could kick up my heels as high
as my head. Now when I was
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Mrs. Annie Day was dinner
guest on Thursday, March 14,
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Floyd
and Billy Wayne.
»» » »
Recent visitors of c. J. Flk
ins at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Flkins included: Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Banks and family of
Haleyville, Alabama, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Rawls and family of
Hapeville, J. T. Elkins, Mr.’ and
tween the vineyard and the re
lationship between Christ and the
members of his church.
He is the true vine. He is
the trunk of the vine having its
source in the ground from which
it derives its nourishment and
sending out from it the branches
which in turn produce dependent
branches. Other parts of the
growth may appear tobe the main
vine, but there is only one. It
is the “true,” the main, the pri
mary vine, and all other branches
are dependent upon it.
Here once again is an “I am”
statement of our Lord, and it
gives us Jesus’ estimate of him
self. He thus referred to his
mission as the support and the
source of strength for all of his
followers who, as tr disciples
or branches, comprise the
Christian church.
Jesus recognized the impor
tance of the keeper of a vine
yard. The husbandman’s concern
and care for his vineyard was
uppermost in the mind of Jesus
who likened God to the vinedres
ser. “My Father is the hus
bandman,” he said.
Jesus affirmed his Important
role and function, but he was not
unmindful that his very existence
and his mission depended on the
Father. He had come from God
and his task was to do the will
of Him who had sent him.
One of the important jobs of
the vinedresser is to keep his
vines free from dead branches
and also to prune the healthy
branches so that they will pro
duce more fruit. A productive
grapevine is one which in the
spring must be cleaned of all
dead growth and pruned to the
point where the new shoots will
produce fruit-bearing branches.
Jesus envisioned the church as
a fruit-producing body of believ
ers. He likened the dead wood
to “every branch in me that
beareth not fruit.” He affirmed
that as the vine exists to bear
fruit, so also the church must
either be productive or must be
cleaned out and destroyed by God.
The figure is enlarged upon as
Jesus implied that pruning is as
necessary for the church as it is
for the grapevine. The fruit
bearing branches require period
ic pruning to remain healthy and
productive.
The fruit is the only excuse
for the existence of the vine;
and the fruitfulness of the be
liever is the only excuse for the
existence of the Christian’s faith.
A clean grapevine is impor
tant to the life and productive
ness of the vine. It is the hus
bandman’s chief function to keep
his vineyard clean. His neces
sary tool is a sharp pruning knife.
So it is with God. He employs
Jesus’ teaching and preaching as
the tool to clean out rot and de
cay and to prune back the good
branches so they will be more
productive.
The Word of God is a power
ful tool to prune our lives and
to keep them spiritually healthy
and fruit-bearing. Hence the
Importance of studying the scrip
tures!
lEtw Sy
older my slippers were blue,
but I could still dance the whole
night through. Now I’m still
older, my slippers are black.
I walk to the store and puff my
way back. The reason I know
my youth is all spent, my get
up and go has got up and went.
But, really, I don’t mind when I
think with a grin of all the grand
places my get up has been. Since
I have retired from life’s com
petition, I bury myself with com
plete repetition. I get up each
morning and dust off my wits,
pick up the paper and read the
“obits”. If my name is missing
I know I’m not dead, so I eat
a good breakfast and go back to
bed.”
To our sin-sick souls and
broken world, God’s Jesus
speaks, “They that be whole need
not a physician, but they that are
sick ... for I am not come to
call the righteous, but sinners
to repentance (Matt. 9: 12, 13).”
If we take Wisdom’s prescription
for life then we shall know our
sins are forgiven. O’ blessed
thought of love divine that dwells
within this heart of mine!
Mrs. Herbert Burch, and Miss
Mae Hardman. Friends are happy
that Mr. Elkins returned to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Elk
ins from Newton County Hospital
on March 13.
♦* ♦ *
Friends of Rev. Frank Sailers,
former member of the Porterdale
School Faculty, are interested
that he has undergone corrective
surgery at the St. Joseph’s In
firmary in Atlanta.
** ♦ *
Mrs. Lilia Cofer and Robert
Cofer visited Rev. and Mrs.
Frank Sailers and family at Hart
well, Georgia recently.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Corrine Adams of Sever
na Park, Maryland has been the
recent guest of relatives includ-
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March 13, 1968
Mr. Bob Greer
The Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Bob:
I would like to take this op
portunity to thank you for the
fine coverage you have given our
basketball teams this season. It
means much to the young people
to know that there are people
interested in them.
Thank you for all the articles
and pictures you have had in
your paper. We appreciate your
fine work.
Sincerely,
Coach Ronald M. Bradley
PARENT-TEACHER
REPORT
By Mrs. Robert I. Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
I noticed in the February Is
sue of the National PTA Bul
letin, an article titled - “WANT
ED: FACTS AND IDEAS ON
HOME - SCHOOL COOPERA
TION.” The article was asking
for examples of cooperation or
ideas of what it should be and
suggestions for improving it.
I am sure Parents, teachers,
and school administrators be
lieve in - and want to improve
- home-school cooperation. It
is certainly something we need
more of.
As a parent, how do you find
your school cooperates with you?
What further cooperation would
you like?
As a teacher, what examples
of parent cooperation do you
have? In what areas would you
like to see more and better par
ent cooperation?
Perhaps your PTA would like
to discuss this subject at a
meeting, and send your suggest
ions to: Home-School Coopera
tion Editor
National PTA Bulletin
700 North Rush Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
All suggestions will be held
confidential. It is with your
help that the National PTA can
prepare a practical, lively, small)
pamphlet on what home-school
cooperation looks like from the
home’s view and from the
school’s view.
Good home-school cooperation
keeps parents and teachers alert
to the problem of children and
youth.
Food Service
Conference
Held Fri.-Saf.
The Thirteenth Annual Con
ference of the Georgia School
Food Service was held on March
15-17 at the Sheraton-Biltmore
Hotel. Registration began at
8:00 A.M. Friday. From nine
o’clock until two-thirty included
a tour planned and supervised
by Mrs. Rose Thompson. In
this was a visit and delicious
barbeque lunch at the R. L. Ma
this Dairy, a tour of the Gov
ernor’s Mansion and a trip to
Stone Mountain.
The First General Session be
gan at three o’clock at the Geor
gian Ballroom with Mrs. Irene
Collins presiding. The keynote
speaker at this time was The
Honorable Lester Maddox whose
talk was very inspiring and time
ly. .After this meeting, Gov.
Maddox led the Procession to
the Exhibit Hall where the grand
opening of exhibits took place
until the Progressive Dinner at
seven o’clock in the Empire
Room.
On Saturday morning, Interest
Groups were held at eight-thirty
on “Equipment for Managers.”
Mrs. Martha Cummings, Dieti
tian and Education Specialist
from the Market Forge Company
of Everett, Massachusetts, gave
a demonstration on “The Mar
ketco,” a compact cooking cen
ter.
At one-thirty the business
meeting was held in the Em
pire Room, and at three-thirty
the Second General Session was
held. The highlight of this was
a talk by Dr. Mary Fugua, Pro
fessor Foods and Nutrition, Pur
due University, West Lafayette,
Indiana on “The Challenge Clos
ing The Nutrition Gap.” A pan
el discussion on "What We Are
Doing In Nutrition Education”
was also held.
At seven o’clock the annual
banquet was held in the Geor
gian Ballroom, main speaker be
ing Dr. John Perryman, Execu
tive Director American School
Food Service .Association, Den
ver, Colorado.
On Sunday morning installation
of officers concluded another
successful annual conference.
The 1969 conference is scheduled
for February 27 through March
2 at the Marriott Motor Motel.
Local School Lunchroom Man
agers attending this time were
Mrs. Rebecca D. Alexander, Mrs.
Mary L. Wiley, Mrs. Owen Banks
and Mrs. Nellie M. Bailey.
ing Mr. ana Mrs. Ellis Adams ana
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Cason.
Following closely on the heels
of any decent size industry that
comes into a community is us
ually one or more unions with
their “master plan” of protec
tion for the "poor working man
or woman”.
In most cases the "master
plan”, if it ever gets a foot
hold, costs the employee mon
ey; gives the employee nothing
that he doesn’t have already;
constantly is the source of trou
ble and discontent for both man
agement and labor; and a source
of friction in the community that
is the home of the working man
and woman.
Now in all fairness let me
concede that in the late nine
teenth and early twentieth cen
tury when workers, both adult
and children, were worked al
most as slaves by some employ
ers the union movement, as it
was initiated as a fair bargain
ing agent for employees, did
some good to alleviate condi
tions.
But, in modern day America
unionism has grown so big and
powerful that it hinders business
and, like the federal government,
controls the rights, freedoms,
and costs the people that it is
supposed to represent and pro
tect.
The management of big bus
iness in the "space age” real
izes that happy, well paid em
ployees produce more profits
and for some segments of this
generation that don’t realize it,
that is why business is con
ducted ... to make a profit.
So a big company builds a
plant in a small growing town,
opens up the door of opportunity
for hundreds of people with good
paying jobs with a chance for
advancement, weekly applies a
huge payroll transfusion into the
local economy, and helps the
community by becoming a parti
cipating member of the local
society through its employees.
Then along comes the union
with its false promises of se
curity and protection. It be
gines to question job security,
wage increases, fair hiring, fir
ing policy, overtime policies,
seniority, and company policy in
general.
The questions are phrased to
1 SEN. PENNINGTON
AT THE CAPITOL I
The United States Internal Re
venue Service has advised me that
under their rules and regulations
it will be impossible for me to
decline to draw the some $25,-
000.00 in compensation I am due
for my legislative service to the
people of my district and the
state of Georgia.
I objected to the agents of the
Internal Revenue Service ruling
that this money, in his opinion,
amounted to constructive income.
I asked for a hearing before the
appropriate Internal Revenue
Service Conferee. The Internal
Revenue Service, at this con
ference, insisted on their posi
tion and effect ordered me to pay
income tax on such salary or
other compensation I might now,
or in the future, be entitled to
from the State of Georgia for my
services to the people of my
district and to the people of this
State.
I had earlier gone to the State
Treasurer’s Office and requested
that no checks be mailed me or
no compensation be given me.
The State Treasurer advised
me that he was directed by law
to mail me each month a check.
I have not and have never cash
ed one of these checks, and in
fact I brought them all back to
the State Treasurer and deliver
ed them to his employees who
now have them in their possess
ion.
I want the people of my dis
trict, and the people of this State,
to know that it was and is my
intention to continue to serve
them without compensation. I do
this not because I feel that I
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ARE YOU ALIVE? Jesus says:
“Man lives not by bread alone,
but by every word that proceed
eth out of the mouth of God.’’
What does it mean to LIVE?
Does it mean merely to breathe
and continue to breathe, and for
the blood to continue to circu
late? Surely NOT!
To really LIVE one needs to
be aware. To consciously use
one’s facilities to use the brain
to reason out and plan; to meet
and solve the problems of life
by the power of choice, and the
execution of the will.
Many people drift along aim
lessly, merely existing, not real
ly living.
To really live, we need to as
sociate with others, to plan with
others for the good of all, and
the glory of God.
Are you living? or are you
merely existing?
God made man for the pur
pose of LIVING, with the express
duty of mastering and subduing
Thursday, March 21, 1968
THE UNION
"WIND BAG”
By: Leo S. Mallard
create doubt, cause dissention,
prejudice employees against
their employer, and in general
promise, in a round about way,
to provide security and extra
benefits to the employee and
let him do as he pleases on the
job under a "benevolent union
contract”.
How a working man or wo
man can go to the polls and
vote against government en
croachment on their private funds
and affairs and then turn right
around and be misled by union
propaganda into signing a "card”
inviting a union to step in be
tween them and their employer
as a bargaining agent is beyond
me.
If a man or woman in a union
or non-union shop isn’t willing
to deliver a full day’s work for
a day’s pay he or she can be
fired with or without a contract.
Companies must give periodic
wage increases to meet the cost
of living rises because of the
great competition in industry for
skilled employees and not be
cause a “union contract” guar
antees it.
When a person gets fired most
of the time he or she has been
warned previously, and when re
leased, probably deserved it and
knew they deserved it. A union
contract can provide what they
call a “fair hearing”, but it
can’t guarantee your job if you
can’t or won’t do the job and
follow company rules.
Overtime opportunities are
created by market demand for
products made in a specific de
partment of a company and no
union contract can sway that de
mand. Those qualified to work
on the products in demand will
be called on by the company to
do so and no other employees
who can’t do those jobs can ex
pect to be worked just for the
sake of receiving overtime pay.
To sign a card without a "rea
son from personal experience”
is like not eating because you’ve
"been told” you would get fat.
Every working man and woman
has said at one time or the
other "you can’t believe all you
hear”. Well, you’ve said it,
now practice what you preach
when outsiders try to tell you
how bad off you are and what
a "union can do for you.”
am not due this money - in fact
the compensation received by me
or my fellow legislators in no
way equals the amount I am sure
it cost my fellow legislators in
their personal business losses
caused by taking the time nec
essary away from their own busi
nesses to conduct the people’s
business here in this General
Assembly.
I have never made a public
announcement regarding my sal
ary status and in fact never in
tended to until a reporter picked
up the information several years
ago from the State Treasurer’s
Records. When questioned about
it at that time I advised that
it was my intention never to draw
this money.
I am truly sorry the Internal
Revenue Service has taken this
position. I want to again state
that I shall not receive this
money regardless of their ruling.
Therefore, I want to advise th<
people of this State that in order
to prevent prosecution of me by
the Federal Internal Revenue
Service that I am, Tuesday, es
tablishing the Pennington Scho
larship Foundation in memory of
my father, Brooks Pennington,
Sr., who passed away during the
past session of this General As
sembly I shall place in this Pen
nington Scholarship Foundation
all salary now due me for my
legislative services from the
State of Georgia and all funds in
the future that might become due
me from such services.
Brooks Pennington
District 45
the earthly creation placed be
fore him.
What a wonderful world we
would have if Adam had only
obeyed God!
There would have been no vic
ious wild beasts! All would have
been domesticated. Isaiah gives
us a marvelous picture of what
the situation would have been,
with all creatures living in har
mony, and a little child, fear
lessly playing with all of God’s
creatures.
Even after man made such a
mess of things, with infinite love
and patience God allowed His only
begotten Son to come and live
among men to lead them back
to the right way, and to teach
them to really LIVE!
He says: “Come umto ME
all ye who are weary and heavy
laden, and I will give you rest!”
Are you accepting or reject
ing HIS love invitation?
“COME UNTO ME?” Will
your answ’er by “YES?”