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COMMENTS
Georgia’s Savings and Loan Associations, whose
history dates back to the rebuilding of our state
following the War Between the States, are having
a special week-long observance May 5-11 to pro
mote personal thrift and home ownership.
The Savings and Loan Associations play an ess
ential role in making possible home ownersnip lor
the average Georgian, providing the largest single
source of financing for homes. Indeed, the revolu
tionary improvement and expansion of housing in the
past two decades would have been impossible without
the savings of Georgia citizens entrusted at our Sav
ings and Loan Associations which, in turn, used the
savings to supply home mortgage money.
This encouragement of thrift and home ownership
Georgia’s investment in vocational - technical
training paid big dividends in 1966-67, according
to a report released today by the Georgia De
partment of Education.
The report, '*A Follow-Up of 1966-67 Vocational-
Technical Graduates,” shows that 76 percent of
the graduates reporting are employed within 25
miles of their hometowns.
“By taking jobs so close to their homes, these
graduates are contributing to the economic growth
of Georgia,” reports State School Superintendent
Jack P. Nix.
“They are also returning the education invest
ment made in them to their own home communi
ties.”
Another dividend pointed up by the report is the
high correlation between training and employment
of vocational-technical graduates.
“Seventy-one percent of the 1966-67 graduates
were employed in the field for which thev trained
Fallout Shelter Briefing Session Held At City Hall
JACK GRANTHAM Cleft\ State Deputy Director of Civil Defense, is shown at Covington City Hall Court
room Tuesday outlining a Community CD Shelter Plan. Looking on at right is Covington-Newton County
CD Director R. T. Floyd. Some 15 Newton Countians attended the briefing.
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NEWTON COUNTY HOSPITAL Auxiliary members listen to a hostess from the Tupperware Company
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buy the emergency “crash cart” for Newton County Hospital in Covington.
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by the 104 Savings and Loan Associations throughout
Georgia strengthens the general economy by creat
ing jobs in the construction and related fields, pro
viding an expanding market for building materials,
household appliances and furniture while reducing
inflationary pressures.
Last year, Georgians under their personal thrift
programs saved more than $1.9-billion in these fed
erally- insured institutions, and received in turn
more than S9O-million in dividends. The savings
of these prudent Georgians last year permitted the
Savings and Loan Associations to lend for home
ownership more than $1.9-billion.
We salute the Savings and Loan Associations of
our state for their continuing efforts to promote
personal thrift and home ownership.
or in a related field,” reports George W. Mulling,
State Director of Vocational Education.
“Eleven percent of our graduates entered the
service, while six percent continued school full
time. Only six percent were not employed in
the field for which they trained.”
One of the biggest dividends cited by this Follow-
Up report is the rising pay scale of vocational
technical graduates.
“Graduates reported on in this study made an
average salary of $5,200 per year,” according
to Director Mulling.
“This figure represents a five percent increase
over the average salary earned by the 1965
vocational-technical graduates.”
A total of 4,454 students were graduated during
the 1966-67 school year in Georgia’s vocational
technical schools.
Os these, 3,676 —or 82.5 percent—responded to
this Follow-Up study. All students responding
did not answer all questions.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD I
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
WISDOM FOR FAMILY LIVING
Devotional Reading: Proverbs
29: 15-23.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Wisdom for Family Living
Memory Selection: My son,
keep your father’s commandment
and forsake not your mother’s
teaching. Proverbs 6:20.
Young People-Adult Topic:
Wisdom for Family Living
Memory Selection: Donotpro
voke your children to anger, but
bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord. Eph
esians 6:4.
To get the proper setting of our
lesson we need to recall that this
is the fourth lesson of eleven on
the “Wisdom” literature of the
Bible. This series includes les
sons from the Books of Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, and Job from the
Old Testament, and the Epistle
of James from the New Testa
ment.
We began with a passage from
Proverbs included in the intro
ductory lesson. This is the third
and final study from this interest
ing book, which is really the cen
tral work of the “Wisdom” sec
tion of Scripture.
Proverbs is designated in the
Hebrew by the word “Mashal”
which has a far wider meaning
than we attribute to the word
“proverb”. In Hebrew the word
means rather an illustration, or
at times quite length descriptions
such as that of the "good woman”
in chapter thirty-one of Pro
verbs.
This lesson is of particular im
portance as it places emphasis
on family life, at a time when
family life has been breaking
down In frightening fashion in our
modern world.
It is good for both parents and
children to realize that the fam
ily is a social unit and forms the
only true basis of personal life,
the church, and the national
structure.
In the Old Testament the fam
ily was a very closely knit organ
ization, often patriarchal, and
made up of several generations,
living together in the family unit.
The respect for age and exper
ience and the wisdom that it
brings was deeply felt in the Old
Testament times, and has pre
vailed in Bible lands up to re
cent years. And this point, loss
of respect for elders and par
ents, has often been a part of the
present revolution which has
come upon the lands of the Book
like a flood.
Central in the teaching of our
lesson today should be the fact
that true wisdom begins with a
reverence for God and dedica
tion to his law, which is cer
tain to issue in a mutual respect
and the best relations within the
family.
Our lesson last week on self
control needs to be called to mind
as a basic requisite for all con
cerned, if we are to enjoy the
true blessings of family life un
der God.
In the first nine verses of chap
ter four the basis of wisdom in pa
rental instruction is set forth in
a dramatic way. Verses one to
three and twenty to twenty-seven
of this chapter are the admoni
tion of the teacher himself or the
author who wrote these verses.
Solomon Is speaking here and
he probably has in mind his own
father, David, who gave him such
high regard for wisdom that when
God offered him the opportunity
to choose any blessing, Solomon
chose wisdom rather than wealth
or length of days. In fact the
opening of chapter four reminds
one a great deal of what David
had said in Psalm 34:11, “Com*',
WORDS TO LIVE BY
Edgar Williams, Jr., Pastor
Zion Baptist Church
Route 5
Covington, Georgia 30209
If one of the ancient Hebrew
prophet’s looked at America to
day, what would he see, say and
do? Perhaps he would echo the
wisdom of Proverbs 14:34,
“Righteousness exalteth a nation;
but sin is a reproach to any peo
ple.”
There is a connection between
the conduct of the citizens of our
land and the condition which ex
ists in America. The people of
God have always known that there
is a direct relationship between
the moral and spiritual lives of
the citizenry of a country and the
survival of a nation.
If America identifies herself as
a people of God, then it is very
evident that the people of our land
have strayed far from the
straight and narrow path of God.
God hath said to His people:
“Thou shall not commit adultry.
Thou shalt not take the Lord’s
name In vain. Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind, and thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.” Man
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ye children, hearken unto me: I
will teach you the fear of the
Lord.”
The readers are addressed as
“children” and the writer looks
upon both parents and children as
coming under the admonition he
gives, which is therefore the
passing of the torch of wisdom
from one generation to another.
Do we teach our children to
day that true moral wisdom is
a greater object to be sought
In life than wealth of advance
ment?
The father who addresses all
his readers as his children gives
them “instruction”. Here at the
outset of our lesson, we should
ponder the tremendous impor
tance of teaching in the home.
How can we expect children to
grow up with strength of charac
ter unless we have both the ex
ample and regular teaching by
parents in dally devotions? What
would our children have in the way
of a general secular education if
they spent no more time at school
than is usually spent in family
instruction in Christian living?
“Attend to know under
standing.” In teaching, the att
ention of the pupil must be se
cured; otherwise the time spent
is all but useless. This is true
also in family devotions and in
worship in the sanctuary. If we
are thinking about other things
with our minds wandering here
and there, we get little profit
from either instruction or wor
ship.
The teacher speaks of him
self as “father” and no doubt
has in mind also his own father
as we see in verse three. How
ever, in the wisdom literature of
the Old Testament there is al
ways the backgroud of divine
wisdom. The wisdom of the fa
ther who gives the admonition
here comes directly from God the
Father of all.
Like so many Old Testament
doctrines the full meaning of the
fatherhood of God is not rea
lized until it is made complete
in the revelation given by our
Lord Jesus Christ.
We are to hear different sorts
of wise instruction in the family,
but especially “good doctrine”.
The real source of doctrine on
which our lives and conduct must
be based is the word of God as
set forth in the Bible.
In these days of mass com
munication the air is filled with
all sorts of doctrine, from ath
eistic communism to race hat
red, to the “new morality” which
is nothing more or less than sub
stituting lust and anarchy for
the Ten Commandments and the
principles of Christ. It is a time
when “good doctrine,” that is
Christian doctrine, must be
taught in the home, the church,
and by the mission of the church
to all the world.
“Forsake ye not my law” is
the answer of God’s Word to the
claims of every “ism” and de
parture from the revealed mor
al law of God, which is the same
today, yesterday, and forever.
The story is told of a theo
logical student who asked his pro
fessor whether it was necessary
to say the Lord’s Prayer over and
over in almost every service.
The professor replied, “By no
means; if you know of a better
prayer be sure to use it.” So
it is that those who are advoca
ting the so-called new morality
and claim God is dead had bet
ter be absolutely certain they
have better rules for conduct
than the Ten Commandments.
There is a proverb in Bible
lands that describes a good pu
pil as “a walled cistern that
does not lose a drop.”
has strayed far from these com
mandments of God. There is a
great need of God’s intervention
in every person’s life.
One of the supreme reasons for
God becoming a man in Christ was
so that He might Intervene In our
lives, thus meeting the total needs
of life with us. Christ’s purpose
in entering into the world, His
life. His death, His resurrection,
and His ascension, was that man
kind of every generation, and na
tion might be rescued from the
sinful state to which man has
fallen.
God’s desire is to save Amer
ica from the delimma of sin, to
live in the citizenry, to impower
us, and to lead us toward the
fulfillment of His purpose for us.
He desires to bless mankind ra
ther than to punish and destroy.
He hath said, “It is not my will
that any of you should perish, but
that you might have life and have
it more abundantly.”
The ancient prophets taught
that God cannot go on tolerat
ing the sins of men forever.
God is a God not to be argued
with, nor debated. He is a God
in whom we sould obey! The
greater effort we make to fit
our lives into His plans, the more
useful and happier each of us will
be.
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Townsend Was Guest Speaker At Boy Scout Banquet
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REPRESENTATIVE KIL TOWNSEND of the 140 district, Atlanta, and president of At l anta Motor Courts
Inc., was the guest speaker at the annual Newton-Rockdale District, BSA, an ^ u . y .
at the E. L. Ficquett Cafeteria. Others shown at the head table are: Thomas R. Uffelman, Scout
Executive, Atlanta Area Council; Sam Ramsey, Newton-Rockdale District Chairman, a n d Mjss Carolyn
Joyner; District Scout Executive Roger Zuercher; Ted Stroud, District Advancement Chairman, and
Mrs. Stroud; and Clyde Aul and Mrs. Aul from Conyers.
Newton-Rockdale Eagle Scouts Are Recognized
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TED STROUD (center), District Advancement Chairman, recognized the four Eagle Scouts in the
Newton-Rockdale District during 1967-68. Left to right are: Darrell Huckaby, Troop 223, Porterdale;
Mike Young, Troop 209, Conyers; John Gregory, Post 211, Oxford; and Johnny Fountain, Troop 209,
Conyers.
Uffelman Installs 1968-69 BSA Officials
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THOMAS R. UFFLEMAN, Atlanta Area Council Scout Executive (right) installs the Newton-Rockdale
District officers for the coming year. Left to right are: Clyde Aul, district commissioner from
Conyers; Ted Stroud, district vice-chairman; Sam Ramsey, district chairman; and Roger Zuercher,
Newton-Rockdale District Scout Executive.
Layona Glenn
Says . .
Success comes in “Cans”, and
forward movement. “I can go,
you can go, he, she and they can
go”.
Even “cans” must move on!
Jesus said, “No man having put
his hand to the plow and looking
back is fit for the kingdom of
heaven.”
When shipmen asked Colum
bus what they sould do when the
stars disappeared his reply was:
“Sail on!”
So, succeed in this old world
we can, only if we trust in God
and move on!
Jesus said: “All things are
possible with God!”
So we can move on with HIM.
THE
CHATTER
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Mrs. Williams of Mansfield, who
has passed on since she gave it
to us. Her garden is beautiful
now they tell me, and we hope to
get down to see it very soon.
Mrs. Agnes Cherry, formerly
of Covington, is the house guest
of Miss C. B. Brannon for about
three days before returning to her
home in Illinois. Her many fri
ends are delighted to see her each
year as she passes through en
route from Florida for the Winter.
If you are lonely, just the two
of you, in your home, because all
your children have married and
left home...don’t forget, “Foster
Parents” are needed in Newton
County. . .and your home would
be greatly blessed if you could
take a couple of children for a
month or so. The State pays
a certain amount for their food
etc., each month. The joy of
little voices around the home
again, would be fine. . .but “unto
the least of these unto me”, said
the Master of us all. . .Knowing
we were serving HIM also, would
bring greater blessings into our
home. Call Mrs. Nevels, Tele
phone 786-8161 and let her ex
plain the plan. . .if you are def
initely interested in this great
work. You may wonder if they
will measure up! Remember you
and your home must qualify, also.
Last week we had the joy of att
ending the Newton County Educa
tion Association’s beautiful ban
quet. The story of this has been
written. . .and this column had
been printed, when we attended
this beautiful affair. We want to
say that the table decorations
were just “outer this world!”
Who, other than Martha Ramsey,
could have thought of EVERY-
Burson Receives Scouting Trophy
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NEWTON-ROCKDALE District Chairman Sam Ramsey presents
a Scouting Trophy to District Commissioner John Burson for his
years of service to Scouting and his work as Commissioner during
the past year.
THING! Decoration were. . .
well let’s not forget the APPLE
for the TEACHERS. . . .Beauti
ful red apples were on the front
of Programs. . .they, in huge
sizes were the center of all arr
angements on every table, along
with the arrangements of flow
ers. They were on the speakers
table, and an extra one as a cen
terpiece, also “nestled in” flo
wers, etc. There were pencils,
rulers, and every item used with
in the school room. . .except a
“PADDLE”., .and “SWITCHES”
. . .If they were there the teach
ers had them under their desks!
There was a bag of “goodies”
at each place.. .looking like ev
erything a little boy, at school,
would have in his pocket. . .
from pen, pencil, gum, candy,
Lolly Pops, to guess what?
MATCHES! You read about the
meeting last week. . .It was a
wonderful one, but we had, some
how, a feeling of well, mixed up
feeling of gladness, and sadness,
at the retiring of three wonderful
teachers.
One of the most delightful parts
of the evening was the period in
which the retiring teachers told
many amusing incidents, which
happened during their teaching
career. Mrs. R. H. Patterson in
stalled the new Officers in a very
impressive ceremony.
Thanks to everybody who
bought Tupperware, to help
“swell” the funds, to pay for the
“Crash Cart” at the Hospital.
We are delighted to learn that our
Hospital Administrator. . .Mrs.
Helen Dickinson, is in her office
some, after her recent illness...
she is loved by all who work with
her, and they rejoice at her early
recovery.
Well, we’ve heard about that
COLD DAY IN MAY, all our lives
. . . .It’s here folks, this is it!
I’ve had it!
So. . . . I’ll grab mv broom
Thursday, May 9,1968
109 Heart Deaths
In Newton County
During Year 1966
Diseases of the heart and blood
vessels accounted for the deaths
of 20,070 Georgians in 1966, 73
more than in 1965. According
to Dr. Haywood N. Hill, M.D.,
President of the Georgia Heart
Association, of the 38,405 deaths
in the state during 1966, heart
deaths were responsible for 52.2
percent.
According to the American
Heart Association, cardiovascu
lar diseases claimed 1,017,550
lives during 1966, or 54.4 per
cent of all deaths. Cancer,
ranking second, accounted for
16.2 percent of all deaths.
In Newton County there were
222 deaths in 1966. Os this
number 109 were victims of heart
deaths, and that is 49.1% of the
total.
Dr. Hill pointed out that the
many diseases of the heart and
blood vessels may attack people
of all ages and in widely varying
occupations. “Heart disease is
not the particular property of
old people,” Dr. Hill said.
“Young, active citizens may also
be susceptible.”
“The rules of common sense
are still the best,” Dr. Hill said,
“Have regular checkups, don’t
smoke, reduce if you’re over
weight, have a regular exercise
program.”
Dr. Hill stated that while the
more dramatic evidence of ad
vances in research are of course
of great value to medicine, “it
is obvious that the real solution
lies in prevention.”
and do my job of 'jest. . .
SWEEPIN’ UP.”