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Thursday, June 13, 1968
Political Announcements
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TO THE VOTERS OF NEW
TON COUNTY:
This is to announce my can
didacy for membership on the
County Board of Education, from
the Sixth District, county at large,
subject to the Democratic Pro
mary of Newton County, Sept
ember 11, 1968.
If elected, I promise to ful
fill the responsibilities as a
member of this board to the best
of my ability.
Your vote will be greatly ap
preciated.
Sincerely,
H. M. Pulliam
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Two motorists in the City of
Covington during the past week
faced multiple charges in Mon
day’s session of Judge E. W.
Strozier’s court, but they chose
to forfeit their cash bonds rather
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James L. Hayes
TO THE VOTERS OF DIS
TRICT 2: (Cedar Shoals, Stan
sells, Downs, Rocky Plains):
I would like to formally an
nounce my candidacy for the
office of Newton County Com
missioner for District 2, sub
ject to the Democratic prim
ary, Sept. 11, 1968.
If elected I promise to ful
fill the duties of this office to
the best of my ability. I pledge
to represent all of the people
of District 2 on the Board of
Commissioners.
Your vote and Influence In
my behalf will be greatly ap
preciated.
Respectfully,
James L. Hayes
than stand trial.
One man forfeited his S3OO
cash bond on charges of driving
without a license, speeding, re
sisting arrest, and failure to
stop for Police. The other man
forfeited S2OO on counts of driv
ing under the influence, reckless
driving, and failure to stop for
Police.
In other cases called for trial
by Judge Strozier Monday, one
man was fined $25 for discharg
ing firearms in the city. Two
cases involved reckless driving
and three others were against
persons driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants.
Single cases were made against
persons for speeding, driving
without a license, having an im
proper inspection sticker on an
auto, disorderly conduct, and
having an improper muffler on
a car. Seven persons were
charged with drunkenness during
the past week.
Cotton is a fiber of nature.
E. M. McCart
TO THE VOTERS OF DISTRICT
1:
I would like to take this op
portunity to announce my candid
acy for the office of Newton
County Commissioner of District
1, subject to the Democratic
Primary, Sept. 11.
If elected, I will serve the
people of this district to the
best of my ability.
Your vote and influence will
be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
E. M. McCart
GA. WRITERS ----
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Leader. As chairman of the Af
filiated Societies Program of the
Academy of American Poets, he
edits “The Detonator,” a poetry
newsletter of national circula
tion. His own friendship with
Dorothy and Ezra Pound gives
authority to the pages of “The
Caged Panther: Ezra Pound at
St. Elizabeths,” which will be
the subject of his talk.
Sharing honors with Mr. Meac
ham on the program, “A Day
for Writers and Their Craft,”
will be Franklin Garrett, Atlanta
historian, author of “Atlanta and
Environs,” and director of the
Atlanta Historical Society, who
will speak on “Source Materials
for Writing Local History; Eu
gene Moore, editorial associate
the Atlanta Journal, whose sub
ject will by “Why You Should
Write Plays: The Need for Good
Playwrights”; Darlene Hartman,
successful writer of television
scripts, who will talk on this
subject.
Celestine Sibley, columnist the
Atlanta Constitution and author
of five books, including her most
recent, “A Place Called Sweet
Apple,” Wylly Folk St. John,
author and journalist, and author
of the recently published sus
pense story for children, “The
Secrets of the Pirate Inn,” bought
by Disney Productions, to be
adapted for Disney’s “Wonder
ful World of Color,” and three
other Georgia authors, will
launch the opening program at
10 o’clock A.M., a panel dis
cussion: "There’s Nothing Like
a Book! Or the Writing of It!”
The three authors completing
the panel are Aurelia Austin,
author of “Georgia Boys with
Stonewall Jackson: James
Thomas Thompson and the Wal
ton Infantry”; Marel Brown, au
thor of “The Shape of A Song,”
and Evelyn Ward Gay, author
of the biography, “Lucian Lamar
Knight.”
The Richmond poet and lunch
eon speaker, Harry Meacham,
will take part on a poetry panel
Tuesday afternoon, this panel
including:
Dr. Coleman Barks, member
English department, University
of Georgia, Athens, who has had
poetry published in some fifteen
literary magazines; Mary Ann
Coleman, Athens, whose poems
have appeared in the Georgia
Review, American Weave and the
New York Herald Tribune; Ro
bert Hull, member English de
partment, Georgia Institute of
Technology, who has had both
poetry and short stories pub
lished; Julia Evatt, Marietta,
first prize winner in the Geor
gia Writers Association’s Manu
script of Poetry Contest in 1967;
and a published poet; Daisy Fran
ces Smith, author of two volumes
of poetry, “A Fig and a Flther,”
and “Half-Breed”;and Georgia’s
Poet Laureate, Agnes Cochran
Bramlett, Forsyth, author of sev
eral volumes of poetry. Mr.
Meacham will highlight this pro
gram, speaking on “Modern
Poetry, Evolution, Not Revolu
tion.”
Ruby L. Radford, author of
forty-five books for children,
teen-agers and young adults since
1927, will be a special honor
guest, and her 45 books will be
on exhibit. She has three books
coming from the press this year,
“James Oglethorpe-Founder of
Georgia”; “The Enchanted Hill,”
a fictional story, and “Sequoia”
Gift to the Cherokees.”
Special guests also will be
William Wallace Davidson, edi
tor of The Georgia Review, Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens, and
a charter member of the Geor
gia Writers Association, who will
be retiring July 1; Ralph Step
hens, director University of
Georgia Press, Athens; and Mrs.
Agnes Cochran Bramlett, Poet
Laureate of Georgia. Mrs.
Bramlett will give the invocation
at the anniversary luncheon.
The anniversary program will
conclude with the presentation
of the Association’s Blue Ribbon
prizes to winners in the Short
Story, Poem and Article Con
tests. Patrons for these prizes
will be Harvey Dan Abrams, of
Abrams Books, Atlanta, special
izing in Georgia, Southern and
Confederate Books, Maps, Docu
ments and Imprints, who is a
trustee of Georgia Writers As
sociation; Clifton Anderson
Wood, retired executive of the
Federal Government, poet and
trustee of the Association; and
the Citizens & Southern National
Bank, the prize offered, a set
of four Menaboni plates.
Registration will begin at 9:00
A.M. Persons in the Covington-
Oxford area who are interested
in attending the program and
luncheon may do so. Regis
tration is SI.OO, and luncheon
is SI.OO. Those wishing to at
tend should phone Oxford College
for reservations.
Many in the Oxford-Covington
area are charter members, hav
ing attended the First Georgia
Writers Conference in June 1948.
These include: Mrs. Robert Arn
old, Mrs. Trox Bankston, Mrs.
Guy Rogers, Mrs. Tandy Bush,
Mrs. Wendell Crowe, Mrs. C. C.
King, Mrs. Annie Hall Macon,
Mrs. Leo Mallard, Mrs. Henry
Odum, Sr., Mrs. R. H. Patter
son, Mrs. W. O. Patterson, Mrs.
E. B. Rogers, Mrs. E. L. Step
henson, Mrs. Godfrey Trammell,
and the late Mrs. L. D. Bolton,
Mrs. Peter W. Godfrey and Henry
Odum, Sr.
The Georgia Writers Confer
ence has attracted outstanding
main speakers and authors from
a wide area, including the lit
erary world’s brightest stars.
These have included Carl Sand
burg, Dr. Archibald Rutledge,
Martha Foley, Faith Baldwin,
Edison Marshall, Harrison
Smith, Hudson Strode, Virginia
Moore, Flannery O’Connor, By
ron Herbert Reece, Jonathan
Daniels, Arthur Gordon, Charlton
Ogburn, Jr., Minnie Hite Moody,
Harnett Kane, Dr. Frank G.
Slaughter, Miller Williams, John
William Corrington and Madison
Jones. Also, Paul Darcy Boles,
Marlon Montgomery, Vinnie Wil
liams, Dr. Bell Irvin Wiley, Mar
guerite Steedman, James Saxon
Childers, Maggie Davis, Eliza
beth Stevenson, Larry Rubin and
many more. The Association also
has showcased a living anthology
of virtually every author, every
writer - professional and up and
coming amateur - in Georgia
and, often, in the Southeast.
Officers serving with Mrs.
Massey will be vice-presidents
Sue Fife, Lithonia; Daisy Frances
Smith, Atlanta, Mrs. Mary Belle
Griffin, Decatur; Mrs. Carole
Aguirre, Marietta. Also, Mrs.
Courtney Latham, recording sec
retary.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Charles Read Jr. Seeks
Stone Mountain Judgeship
Charles D. Read, Jr., of De
catur, former U. S. District At
torney for the Northern District
of Georgia, has announced his
candidacy for judge of the Su
perior Court of the Stone Moun
tain judicial Circuit. The circuit
includes DeKalb, Newton and
Rockdale Counties.
A resident of DeKalb County
for more than 20 years, Mr.
Read qualified June 4 for the
Republican primary to be held
in September.
He has been in private prac
tice of law since leaving the U.S.
Attorney’s post as a member of
the law firm formerly known as
Wotton, Long, Jones and Read,
now Jones and Read, of Atlanta,
handling a general practice in all
courts.
He is a lieutenant colonel in
the Judge Advocate General’s
Department of the Air Force Re
serve and has been admitted to
practice before the U. S. Court
of Military Appeals. He served
four and a half years on active
duty with the U. S. Army Air
Force in World War n. He
is a member of the Reserve Of
ficers Association and the Air
Force Association.
He served as assistant U. S.
Attorney and later as U. S. At
torney for the eight years of the
Elsenhower administration, re
presenting the federal govern
ment in all types of litigation,
both criminal and civil.
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Temperatures
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Covington temperatures during
the past week, according to Wea
therman Jack Chapman, were;
High Low
Wed., June sth 83 62
Thurs., June 6th 79 57
Fri., June 7th 76 63
Sat., June Bth 77 65
Sun., June 9th 84 67
Mon., June 10th 89 67
Tues., June 11th 89 68
Week’s rain 2.57 inches.
Judge Frank Guess
Plans Retirement
Superior Court Judge Frank
Guess of the Stone Mountain
Judicial Circuit announced Fri
day he will retire at the expira
tion of his term Jan. 1.
A veteran of 42 years on the
bench, Judge Guess, 75, has
served 22 years in the Stone
Mountain Circuit, which includes
DeKalb, Newton, and Rockdale
counties.
“It’s been a wonderful experi
ence,” said Judge Guess. But
he added, “I believe the time
has come for me to step down
from the bench.”
Judge Guess, who will become
a judge emeritus upon his re
tirement, said he plans to de
vote some of his time to his
farm in Newton County where
he has some horses.
“I enjoy working with horses,”
he said.
Judge Guess stepped into the
position he is about to vacate
in 1947 when appointed by former
Gov. Ellis Arnall to fill an un- 1
expired term.
Prior to that, he had presided
in the City Court of Decatur
since 1927, being appointed to ’
that position by the late Gov. 1
Clifford Walker.
Judge Guess was born in stone ’
Mountain. He attended public
school in Atlanta and the Donald :
Fraser school in Decatur prior 1
to his graduation from Atlanta
Law School.
He and Mrs. Guess have lived ■
in Decatur for some 30 years.
They have three children.
A member of the Presbyterian
Church, Judge Guess has been
active in civic, fraternal and re
ligious affairs for many years.
“I’ve enjoyed my time on the
bench,” said the judge, “"nie
people have been nice to me.”
The candidates who have quali
fied for the seat to be vacated
by Judge Guess are DeKalb As
sistant Sol. Ce: . Dennis Jones,
a Democrat, and attorney Charles
Read, a Republican.
In addition, Decatur attorney
Richard Thlbadeau, a Republi
can, has announced his intentions
to run for the post.
Bowden Receives
Ga. Tech Degree
Robert V. (Bob) Bowden, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bowden,
former residents of Covington,
received his B.S. in Aero-Space
Engineering at Georgia Tech Sat
urday, June 8. Evelyn and Ver
non Bowden drove down from
Pennsylvania to attend the grad
uation exercises and visited re
latives here. Another son, Keith,
is employed by Burroughs Cor
poration in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Bob has accepted a job with
North-American Aviation, Co
lumbus, Ohio.
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