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We think we never had so many
wonderful things happening on
every night and the same nights,
as we had this week. We want
ed to attend all but it was im
possible...yet other members of
the News Staff did.
We, as we signed in at Emory
College, at Oxford, did as form
er grads did...we signed in the
year we started going to Emory...
1931... but we recounted and we
started out there in 1932. Form
er Dean Eady once said: "You
and I have been coming a long
time and I think we are the only
ones not receiving a Degree!”
What-er-bout-that? We probably
should have had an "A” for
attendance, and interest! But
then...who else, or how many?
We have never seen Oxford more
beautiful than it is right now, as
we write this column! We went
out for lunch at the College the
day before the meeting on Thurs
day, of last week. After lunch
we walked all over the sacred
old Campus, viewing the begin
ning of the wonderful library,
improvements and renovation of
various buildings; but the dog
wood is one of the most beau
tiful sights in the County. Don’t
you fail to see it!
Easter Seal donations from
Newton County residents are to be
sent direct to Mr. C. G. Hen
derson, c/o Bank of Covington,
Covington. Several have called
and said they received -a letter
from Easter Seal Society say
ing: "Can’t you give one or
two dollars to this fund, and
it is either to be sent to At
lanta or here. NEWTON COUN
TY TREASURER, C. G. HEN
DERSON, care Covington Bank
is Treasurer, so send it to him!
Too, we feel that most people
receiving the letters will want
to give more than one or two
dollars. It will take more to
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W. J. Dickey
Now At Home
W. J. Dickey of Oxford, a re
tired member of the Emory-At-
Oxford faculty, has been dis
missed from Newton County Hos
pital and returned to his home.
Mr. Dickey has taken an active
part in civic, church and fra
ternal work for many years. His
friends wish for him a speedy
recovery.
Newton County School System Meets Standards
In a computerized report re
ceived recently by Superintend
ent J. W. Richardson, the New
ton County School System has
been classified as a Standard
School System by the State De
partment of Education Commit
tee which visited the central of
fice and each school last fall
to check the local schools against
the 1967 Standards for Public
Schools of Georgia.
The new school standards,
adopted by the State Board of
Education in February of 1967,
represent the very best think
ing and planning of the State
Board, the State Department of
Education, and a group of dis
tinguished Georgia educators and
laymen. The comprehensive body
of information collected through
application of the standards is to
be used in a cooperative effort
Newton County Civitan Club Has Charter Night
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CHARTER NIGHT Ceremonies of the Newton County Civitan Club were held Friday night at the Crest
Restaurant. Shown above are Civitan officials from left to right: Wally Poss, Georgia District North
Governor-Elect; Billy Kitchens, new Club Treasurer; John Ledbetter, President; Bob Hunter, Sec
retary; Gordon Craft, Publicity Chairman Georgia District North, who headed up the organization of
the local club; Thorne Winter, Ga. Governor of District North. The club has 28 charter members.
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Easter Sunrise Service-Sharp Field
Danny Richardson Killed
In Vietnam War Action
Word has been received here
by Mr. and Mrs. Giles Richard
son of Route 1, that their son,
SP/4 Danny Joe Richardson, was
killed on April 3, while serving
with the US Army in Vietnam.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete at this time, pending the
arrival of his body in Covington.
Complete funeral plans will be
announced Jater by Caldwell and
Cowan Funeral Home.
Richardson was stationed in the
Qul Nhon area of Vietnam when
he was killed. The Richardson
family was told by an officer of
the Armed Forces that Danny
died "from multiple wounds from
enemy fire in the base camp.”
The family was also Informed that
further particulars of their son’s
death would be delivered by the
escort when the body arrives
for burial.
Richardson entered the service
on November 3, 1966 and rece
ived his basic training at Fort
Benning, Ga. Then he was trans
ferred to Fort Polk, La., and lat
er to Ft. Sill. Oklahoma. He
Hospital Auxiliary
Benefit Hot Dog
Sale On Saturday
The Hospital Auxiliary is spon
soring a Hot Dog sale on Coving
ton City Square Saturday, April
13 , from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Besides Hot Dogs they will have
potato chips, Cokes, coffee, fresh
homemade cakes and candy, so
most any desire of the purchaser
will be for sale. Proceeds from
this sale will go toward the pur
chase of the Crash Cart for New
ton County Hospital.
Everyone come prepared Sat
urday to have lunch and an after
noon snack with the Auxiliary to
help In this vital need for our
local hospital.
between the state and local sys
tems in achieving quality educa
tion.
There are two sections of the
instrument: Section I deals with
Standards applicable to school
systems; Section II deals with
standards applicable to indivi
dual schools. Within the sys
tem section there are eight Stan
dards. There are varying num
bers of criteria within the eight
Standards. These criteria deter
mine the extent to which a sys
tem meets the Standards. Tbe
school section (Section II) is
composed of ten Standards which
are similar in content to the
systems section.
There are three categories
of criteria: (1) Required, (2) Es
sential, and (3) Desired. The
Newton County School System
meets all 15 of the Required
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Danny Richardson
was sent to Vietnam on November
28, 1967 and was serving with
the First Cavalry Division.
Surviving besides his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Giles Richardson
of Covington are four brothers,
Billy Richardson, Ophelia, Kan
sas; Hubert Richardson, Mar
ietta; Charles Richardson,
Franklin Richardson, both of
Covington; one sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Mitchell, Scottdale and his
grandmother, Mrs. Fannie Cas
teel, Stone Mountain.
The NEWS joins the many
friends of the family in extend
ing sincerest sympathy to them
in their bereavement.
Retail Merchants
To Meet Monday
The Covington Retail Mer
chants Association will meet
Monday, April 15 at 10 a.m.
at the Snapping Shoals EMC build
ing to discuss the garbage rates
put into effect recently by the
City of Covington.
The association will make re
commendations to the City Coun
cil for changes in the rates.
Criteria; 22 of the 30 Essen
tial items (although only 12 must
be met by a Standard System >,
and 30 of the 107 items listed
as desired of a school system.
No set number of items in the
last group must be met at pre
sent to be classified as a stand
ard system.
"A study of the report shows
the weak points in an individual
school as well as the strong
points. None of our individual
schools met all of the required
criteria when the report was
made and It also showed where
we can make much improvement
in the essential and desired
items. Each principal is al
ready working toward correct
ing as many deficiencies as pos
sible in their planning for another
school year,” Newton School
Supt. J. W. Richardson added.
COVERAGE OF NEWS, PICTURES, AND FEATURES OF ANY WEEKLY IN GEORGIA
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1968
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“Christ Is Risen!” Joyous voices proclaim afresh the message of
spiritual rebirth, of faith renewed and hope triumphant. And
as the Easter season blossoms forth in all its wonder and glory,
we take pause to reflect with reverence and gratitude upon the pro
mise of that first miraculous Easter Morn. At this holy, happy
time, we greet our friends and neighbors, and share in your re
joicing. With our greetings go our wishes to each of you for the
deepest blessings of the season. In Easter’s message, may all
of us find comfort for today, and inspiration for tomorrow.
Pre-Easter Services At
Two Oxford Churches
There will be special pre-
Easter Services on an inter
denominational basis, sponsored
jointly by the Allen Memorial
Methodist Church and the Ox
ford Baptist Church, on Thurs
day, April Uth and Friday, April
12 th.
The Maundy Thursday service
will be held at the Allen Memor
ial Methodist Church at 8 p.m.
on April 11th. The congrega
tion will gather in the chapel
for a period of worship and then
move to the fellowship hall where
each will participate in a ser
vice of Holy Communion.
The Good Friday Service will
be held at the Oxford Baptist
Church, beginning at 12 noon
and ending at 3 p.m. The fol
lowing Is a schedule of the med
itations that will be presented In
the three hour service.
Each meditation will Include
congregational hymns, prayers
and sermon thoughts:
12:00-Scripture Music, Rev.
Kent Anglin, Mrs. Pat Anglin.
12:05 - “Father Forgive
Them”, Dean Bond Fleming.
12:30-“You Shall Be With Me
In Paradise”, Rev. George Home.
12:55-"Behold Thy Son”, Rev.
Edgar Callaway.
1:20-“My God, My God—”,
Rev. Claud Healan.
1;45-“I Thirst”, Dr. Andy
Pate.
2:10-“It Is Finished”, Rev.
Tom White.
2:35-“Into Thy Hands”, Rev.
Owen Kellum.
3;00-“Were You There”, Dr.
John Tate.
The Pianist for this service
will be Mrs. James Milligan.
Ministers, John Tate and Kent
Anglin, of the Churches in Ox
ford, cordially invite anyone who
wishes to participate in these
services to do so.
Kellum To Speak At Kiwanis
Guest speaker for the regular
weekly meeting of the Covington
Kiwanls Club today (Thursday)
at the Teen Can will be the Rev.
E. Owen Kellum, Jr., pastor of
the Covington First Methodist
Church. Rev. John Tate has
charge of the program today and
he will present Mr. Kellum.
Robert Arrington, Director of
Vocational Division of Newton
County High School, was the guest
speaker at the Covington Kiwanls
Club Thursday. Mr. Arrington
made a short talk and then show
ed a color film of the new ad
dition to the high school facili
ties here.
Rummage Sale
The Newton County Jaycettes
will hold a Rummage Sale on
April 13 from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00
P.M. in front of the A & P on
Washington Street in Covington.
Clothes for men, women and
children; jewelry, shoes, house
wares and many other things will
be sold.
For information contact the
Project Chairman, Mrs. William
Womack.
Also on the program was a
girls’ trio from NCHS, Elaine
Wood, Sherri Thompson and Gail
Wood. They rendered two num
bers and were accompanied at the
piano by their faculty advisor
Mrs. Perry Haymore.
Among the guests at the meet
ing Thursday: Walter Partee of
Covington; an inter-club from the
Jackson Kiwanls Club, Lewis
Freeman, Sandy Sanvldge, Henry
Asbury and Doyle Jones, Jr.;
Nash Williams of Madison; Chris
Drake and Joe Colvard of the Ox
ford College Circle K Club; and
Newton Key Clubbers Lee Piper
and Jim Gainer.
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Rev. Kent Anglin Is Speaker
For Interdenominational Event
The annual Easter Sunrise Service will be held Sunday at 6:30 a. m.
In the High School Football Stadium. The Rev. Kent Anglin, pastor of
the Oxford Baptist Church, will bring the Easter message.
This community-wide service
has been sponsored for several
years by the Newton County Min
isterial Association and has be
come a tradition in greater Cov
ington and supported by most of
the churches. Representatives
of different churches will take
part in the service.
The preacher this year is the
Rev. Kent Anglin, a native of New
ton County. He Is a graduate of
Mercer University and the South
ern Baptist Seminary In Louis
ville, Kentucky. He has also tak
en some post-graduate work In
counseling. He has been pastor
of the Oxford Baptist Church for
more than a year.
Boy Scouts of Troop 222 and
Explorers of Post 211 will serve
as ushers for the service. Should
inclement weather prevent the
service being In the stadium, It
will be held in the High School
Auditorium.
A warm welcome is extended
everyone to attend the Easter
Sunrise Service at Sharp Field.
Local Civitan Club Has
Charter Night Program
The newly-organized Newton
County Civitan Club held its char
ter night ceremonies Friday, Ap
ril 5, at the Crest Restaurant.
The Newton County Civitan
Club is being sponsored by the
Forest Park Civitan Club, with
Gordon Kraft of the Forest Park
Club heading the organization of
the club in this area. Several
Forest Park members, along with
District officers were present for
the Charter Night program.
Among distinguished visitors
were Thorne Winter, Governor;
Harold Russell, Past Governor;
Fred Parker, Extension Chair
man; Wally Poss, Governor El
ect; Gordon Kraft, Publicity
Chairman and Roy Simmons, past
vice-president of Civitan Inter
national, who delivered the add
ress.
Thorne Winter, Governor
Georgia District North, pre
sented the charter to John Led
better, president of the new New
ton County Civitan Club. Gover
nor Winter also presented the
club with a Civitan banner and
Hoke West, president of the For
est Park Civitan Club, presented
John Ledbetter with a Civitan
meeting bell and gavel and Gor
don Kraft presented him with a
Civitan scrapbook. Gordon Kraft,
Hoke West and Thorne Winter
distributed membership kits to
the 28 members, along with a
framed creed and Civitan pins.
Wally Poss, Governor elect
Georgia District North, pre
sented officers pins to John Led
better, Club President; Billy Kit
chens, treasurer and Bob Hunter,
secretary.
Members of the new club pre-
Mrs. Jean Lemonds To Give
Concert At Oxford April 18
Oxford College is privileged
to announce that Jean Lemonds,
soprano, will appear in concert
on the campus April 18. The
concert will take place at 8:15
p.m. in Allen Memorial Auditor
ium.
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sented Civitan pins were Cary
Allgood, Roy A. Barnett, Leo A.
Brunson, Cleon Dial, Otis E. Ell
ington, Ray Allen Fuss, William
D. Hanson, Robert C. Hodges, A.
R. Hooten, Robert B. Hunter, W.
Lavern Kellum, Hugh H. Kesler,
Billy Kitchens, John R. Led
better, Herbert M. Lott, Fred
M. Lott, Philip L. Malcom, Char
les Miller, Alan Mitchell, Ward
Mobley, Jack H. Morgan, Bill
V. Morris, Grover C. Morton,
Otis Murphy, Horace Parker,
E. L. Rainey and Foy E. Smith.
The benediction was delivered
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62 Pictures In
NEWS Today
Readers of your Covington
NEWS today may be pleasantly
surprised that we are carrying
a total of 62 pictures in the pa
per today. Many of these pic
torially depict important events
in the city and county during
the past week.
Also in the NEWS today are
many editorials of timely im
portance, advertisements, fea
ture articles, news, sports, so
ciety and general news of people
and events in and near Newton
County.
Truly, The Covington News
is a bargain to our subscribers.
Last week the paper contained
48 pages and today’s Issue in
cludes 28 pages.
Mrs. Lemonds was graduated
from Westminster Choir College,
Princeton, New Jersey. While
attending Westminster, she ap
peared as soloist under such
conductors as Bruno Walter,
Charles Muench and Leopold Sto
kowski. Her vocal accomplish
ments include Mozart’s Requiem,
Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St.
Matthew Passion, Britten’s War
Requiem, Mahler’s Eighth Sym
phony, and Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnis. She is the wife of
Dr. William Lemonds, Director
of Choral Music at Emory Uni
versity.
Her concert at Oxford will
include songs and arias by Beet
hoven, Mahler, Hugo Wolf and
Berlioz, as well as Elizabethan
songs arranged by Marc Blitz
stein. Mrs. Lemonds will be
accompanied by Jeannette Robin
son, who is harpsichordist and
pianist for the Atlanta-Emory
Chamber Orchestra.
Oxford College cordially in
vites the general public to at
tend the concert. There will be
no charge for admission.