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Thursday, April 4, 1968
Businessmen Have Huge Stake In Law
Enforcement, Burson Tells C. Os C.
Declaring that businessmen
have a huge stake in good law
enforcement, Col. R. H. Bur
son, director of the Georgia De
partment of Public Safety, has
called on leaders in business
and industry to actively support
peach officers in their effort
to enforce traffic laws and com
bat crime.
"In essence,” he told the Cov
ington-Newton County Chamber
of Commerce luncheon meeting
in Covington, "the businessman
must become a stronger force
in the law enforcement efforts
of his community. if for no
other reason, it is to his ad
vantage economically.
"With the support of the bus
iness leadership, funds can be
provided to give law enforcement
agencies the resources to do their
job as it must be done . . .And
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** * *
Chamber of Commerce presi
dent Bill Hoffman presided at the
organization’s meeting Monday at
the Teen Can. Dr. Johnny Ma
loney read the C of C minutes of
the March meeting, and John
Dickens, program chairman,
presented the speaker of the day.
Two visitors were present for
the meeting, Harold Hoffman of
Covington and Sgt. Loyd Craw
ford of the State Highway Patrol,
brother of Covington’s Newell
Crawford.
President Hoffman reported to
the membership that the move
ment to build a Youth Center for
the county had been undertaken
by the Newton County Jaycees.
The members voted unanimous
ly to support and back the Youth
Center project.
Gerry Wendel of Hercules told
the members that a "Common
Industrial Committee” is being
organized within the Chamber to
aid new industries who have re
cently located in the county or
contemplate locating here. He
said that membership of the
committee would be from all the
industries involved.
** * *
you can lead your community in
creating broad public support for
the very highest quality law en
forcement that you know how to
provide.”
Discussing the cost of traffic
accidents, Col. Burson pointed
out that the more than 1,600
deaths on Georgia highways in
1967 resulted in an economic
loss to the state of more than
$290-million.
"Right here in Newton County,
you had six fatalities that meant
a loss to you of $1,080,000,”
he said. "Think of that. Over
sl-million lost in only one coun
ty because of careless driving.”
“Consider what this meant to
your business community in
terms of loss of personnel, the
cost to train new employees, the
loss of customers for your pro
ducts and services, the loss in
property damage that accompan
ied each fatality, and, above all,
the loss of potential income to
each family that was struck by
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such a needless death.”
Turning to crime which he
said he includes "in this pro
gram because it equals traffic
as one of the real problems we
must deal with,” Burson said;
"Just as traffic accidents and
fatalities can affect your bus
iness, crime is just as much a
threat and menace.
"Today we are faced with not
only the usual types of crime
such as robbery, larceny, for
gery and the like, but we have
the much more serious problem
of wholesale rioting, looting and
burning that directly affects
every businessman and his pro
perty.
"When riots hit some of our
major cities last year, 83 peo
ple died, 1,897 were injured and
millions of dollars in property
damage resulted.
"It is disturbing to me, as a
law enforcement officer, that the
recent report of the President’s
Commission on Riots and Civil
Disorders did very little to aid
the police of this country in hand-
Piono Festival
Here Saturday
Covington will have the honor
Saturday, April 6, of being the
host to another group of talent
ed musicians of the Tenth Dis
trict. Georgia Music Educators
are sponsoring the Annual Piano
Festival where students perform
before adjudicators and are giv
en ratings. Those receiving su
perior or excellent are award
ed certificates and are eligible
for medals. Students from
Athens, Augusta, Covington,
Crawfordville, Oxford and Wash
ington are registered and will
play at a previously appointed
time.
The judges for this festival
will be Mrs. Julia Black and
Miss Betty Anne Bailey from
Georgia State College Music De
partment, Troupe Harris from
Wilkes County High School and
Mrs. Josie Goode from Newton
High. Mrs. Black and Mr. Har
ris will be judging prepared per
formances and Miss Bailey and
Mrs. Goode will be judging sight
reading.
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CLOSED
ling these disturbances.
“It left unanswered the ques
tion of what those of us in law
enforcement can do to stop a
riot before it can get a foot
hold.
"Instead of laying the blame
for the rioting, looting and burn
ing on those persons who com
mitted these dispicable acts, the
commission report blamed the
white population of America for
allowing social conditions to
reach a point that would cause
and encourage rioting. This, to
me, is not the immediate answer
we need in order to deal swiftly
and effectively with the present
situation.”
Conceding that social condi
tions which have existed for the
past 100 years probably were
major factors in the broad un
derlying cause of these disturb
ances, the state’s top law en
forcement official said, "but it
seems to me that our major
concern today is how to bring an
immidiate halt to these acts that
are destroying lives and proper
ty-even the very fiber of our
society.”
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| Newton Federal Leads Way To
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Newton Federal continues to
lead the community in residential
loans during 1967. According to
Herbert Vining, Executive Vice-
President, the Association pro
vided funds for 69 families to
construct new homes and 62 fam
ilies to purchase homes. Loans
for improvements were made to
63 families.
Newton Federal has made it
possible for many new people
to locate in our community.
These new people are paying
taxes and spending their money
here in our community, helping
to produce the prosperity that has
attracted even more people.
Mr. Vining predicted that New
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to find the necessary financing
for new homes in our community.
He predicted that 1968 would be an
even greater year for Newton
Federal.
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Howard Brooks Heads H-R
Organizing Committee
Howard Brooks, veteran Scout
leader in Covington, is serving
as Chairmanof the Newton-Rock
dale District Organization and
Extension Committee for 1968.
The purpose of this committee
is to extend the Scouting pro
gram so that boys can join the
Scouting movement. There are
3690 boys of Scout age (between
eight and sixteen) in the Dis
trict. About twenty-two per cent
of these boys are enrolled in
Scouting. The function of the
Organization and Extension Com
mittee is to survey the need
for additional Scout units. Po
tential sponsors of a Scout Pack,
Troop or Explorer Post are then
contacted depending on the age
of the boys available in the area.
Mr. Brooks, along with his
committee, assist interested
groups in the organization of a
Scout unit. Any church, PTA,
civic club or group of citizens
can be a Scout sponsor. Spon-
sorship involves two primary
responsibilities. First, the spon
soring institution agrees to pro
vide the boys a place to meet.
Secondly, the sponsor provides
the adult leaders to work with
the boys and to administer the
Scout program within the insti
tution.
"We have a goal of organiz
ing ten new Scout units in 1968,”
Mr. Brooks said. "There are
so many boys in our two coun
ties in this District that our
present sponsors cannot accept
all the boys who want to join,”
he said. The only financial
obligation in Scouting is the re
gistration fee paid by boys and
adults. A boy pays fifty cents
for a year, and adults pay one
dollar a year registration fee.
There is no financial cost in
volved in sponsoring a Scout
unit.
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