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Time Running Out For Medicare
"Doctor Bill Insurance” Claims
Nell Quarles, Field Represen
tative serving Newton County,
states that time is running out
.for some people to claim their
benefits under Part B of the
Medicare program. This is the
part that is often referred to as
"Doctor Bill Insurance.’’ He
indicates that the 1967 amend
ments to the Medicare program
established a time limit for sub
mitting a claim for these bene
fits. Under the amendments,
such claims must be filed no
later than the end of the calen
dar year following the year in
which the services were fur
nished. For example, all cl
aims for services furnished du
ring 1967, must be filed by Dec
ember 31, 1968.
Quarles also states that there
is one exception to this time
Phone Booth Equipment
Takes A Lot Os Abuse
Have you ever thought about
the mechanics and structure of a
coin telephone? This often seen
device must be capable of know
ing how many coins you, the
customer, deposit and how many
to return, and It must be con
structed to withstand the ele
ments and possible vandalism.
Ray Reece, Southern Bell man
ager in Covington, says that Wes
tern Electric, the manufacturing
and supply unit for the Bell Sys
tem, spends a great amount of
time making the coin telephone
rugged and accurate so that the
public gets the best service
for the money.
"Last year the Bell System had
about 1,200,000 public telephones
In operation. And these phones
received some five billion ind
ividual coins. With this amount
of business, we must also make
sure that each phone does every
thing that the home phone does,”
Mr. Reece said.
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limit. This exception applies to
medical services furnished to a
claimant during the last three
months of a year. They will
be considered as if the services
were furnished in the fol
lowing year. Thus, the time
limit for filing a claim for ser
vices furnished during October
through December 1966 will also
be December 31, 1968.
Quarles strongly urges anyone
who had Part B services fur
nished during the period of Oct
ober 1966 through December 1967
to file for these benefits before
the deadline if they have not al
ready done so. The employees
of the social security office will
be happy to help anyone complete
their claim. The office is loca
ted in the Decatur North Pro
fessional Building in downtown
Mr. Reece explained that no
phone Is vandal-proof, and that
the elements of nature are hard
on the Inner workings of the de
vice. He pointed out that loss
of money and loss of service of
the coin telephone is prevented
in most cases by regularly sche
duled checks and maintenance
process.
"Western Electric checks the
health and honesty of each new
phone. Like a healthy baby, the
coin telephone should make noi
ses. It rings and reproduces
voice sounds. And it should also
"beep after being fed,” Mr. Re
ece explained.
The "beep comes from the acc
ountant In the phone, called a
totalizer, and the signal tells
whether nickles, dimes or quart
ers have been used. This tota
lizer Is put through thirty-five
separate tests to Insure
accuracy, Mr. Reece said.
News, Pictures, and Features)
Decatur, and is open from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday thr
ough Friday, and until 7:30 p.m.
on Tuesday.
For the convenience of resi
dents of Newton County a social
security representative is at the
Courthouse In Covington on Tues
days from 9:30 a.m. until 12:00
Noon.
Georgia Veterans
Widows May Get
Educa. Assistance
An estimated 4,355 Georgia
widows of veterans who died as
the result of military service will
be eligible for up to 36 months
of educational assistance from
the Veterans Administration be
ginning December 1, A. W. Tate,
manager of the Atlanta VA Reg
ional Office, said today.
He pointed out that starting
December 1, the wives of Geo
rgia’s 2,297 totally and perman
ently disabled veterans will also
be entitled to VA educational
assistance payments of $l3O a
month — up to a maximum of
36 months —for full-time in
stitutional training.
The allowance for three-quart
ers time training is $95 a mon
th, with S6O being paid for half
time training under the new law
granting these widows and wives
VA educational help for the first
time in the history of veterans’
benefits in the United States,
Mr. Tate said.
Widows and wives now eligible
for this benefit will have until
December 1, 1976, to complete
their training under this new
program, Mr. Tate explained.
He said that women who be
come eligible in the future for VA
educational assistance due to the
service-connected death or per
manent and total disability of
their husbands will have eight
years to complete their training.
Eligibility of widows and wives
does not depend on when their
husbands served in the Armed
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Three-year-old Jimmy Powell, a patient at the At
lanta Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center, has some
words of wisdom — and congratulations —for Uni
versity of Georgia Coach Vince Dooley, left, recently
named chairman of the Easter Seal fund-raising cam
paign for the fourth consecutive year. C. M. Wallace,
Jr., president of the Georgia Easter Seal Society and
executive vice president of the Georgia Power Com
pany, confers with Jimmy and Coach Dooley on 1969
campaign plans. During Coach Dooley’s three years’
service, the society has raised almost a million dollars.
Forces. However, he added, if
a widow remarries or a wife
divorces her disabled husband
she loses her entitlement.
Mr. Tate emphasized that it
will not be necessary for eli
gible widows and wives to con
tact the VA for detailed infor
mation on this new program.
In the near future the Vet
erans Administration will mail
explanatory material with wid
ow’s dependency and indemnity
compensation (DIC) checks and
with the compensation checks for
totally and permanently disabled
veterans.
1-75 Now Makes
High Falls Park
More Accessible
ATLANTA (GPS)-With the re
cent opening of a 28.8-mile st
retch of Interstate-75 highway
between Forsyth and McDonough,
High Falls State Park is now
more accessible than ever before
to all comers. The park is lo
cated about midway between
Macon and Atlanta, some 8 miles
southwest of Jackson.
State Parks Director John L.
Gordon pointed out that with the
opening of the section of 1-75
south between Forsyth and Mc-
Donough, Georgia and out-of-st
ate motorists will find this pop
ular park a scant 1.8 miles aw
ay.
In season at the park, fisher
men enjoy reeling in largemouth
bass, bream, crappie and channel
catfish. Or merely for sight
seeing, visitors find the two la
unching ramps welcome conven
iences at High Falls. There
are boats for rental and small
motors (10 hp. maximum) are
permitted.
Campers enjoy a thoroughly
modern comfort station which in
cludes automatic laundry facilit
ies. Lakeside pine grove tent
sites take on added attraction
with concrete tables, cooking gr
ills, water and electricity.
Located on the site of High
Shoals, a ghost town in the 188 O’s,
High Falls State Park is endowed
with breathtaking scenery and
turn-of-the-century landmarks,
it was pointed out.
Tic Tac-Toe
Computer
A young college student doing
research at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories this summer fig
ured out the perfect project for
a computer that is too smart.
Richard Lary, a math major
at Brooklyn Polythenic Institute,
programmed a Bell Labs com
puter to play a complicated ver
sion of Tic-Tac-Toe as a part
of a research study in “arti
ficial” intelligence.
Ray V. Reece, Southern Bell
manager for Covington, pointed
out that the computer is not
very smart at first. It always
loses the games.
“But the computer learns and
remembers its mistakes,” Mr.
Reece said.
“As the number of games it has
played increases, the fewer
wrong moves the computer exe
cutes. It actually gets smarter
by playing and remembering its
errors,” Mr. Reece explained.
Richard won 90 of the first
hundred games he played with
the machine. But after 7500
games, the computer is abso
lutely unbeatable.
“The machine got so profic
ient at playing Tic-Tac-Toe that
no person could beat it. So
Richard preserved his own ego
by making the computer play the
game against itself. .And to ev
eryone’s surprise, the machine
can now beat Itself every time
it plays,” Mr. Reece pointed
out.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Highway System
Almost Two-
Thirds Complete
The Interstate Highway Sys
tem, when completed, will be the
longest interconnected super
highway network in the world.
Construction of the 41,000 mile
federal system is now almost
two-thirds completed.
About 26,000 miles, or 64 per
cent of the system, are now open
to traffic, and construction is
underway on an additional 6,000
miles.
The rabbiteye type of blueber
ries native to the southeast are
excellent plants to use in the
landscape around your home,
says C. D. Spivey, horticulturist
with the Cooperative Extension
Service. They enhance the beau
ty of your landscape and provide
fruit you can use.
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Santarj
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a gun, walkie
talkie, a radio, a little tractor,
a dump truck, a sweater, and
some cars. Hove you very much.
Yours truly,
Nathan Moss
** * *
Dear Santa:
Please don’t come down the
chimney. Because we will have
a fire in our chimney. I want
Johnny Toymaker for Christ
mas. And be sure to come to
other boys and girls house too.
We will have something good to
eat on the table. Be sure to
come in the door.
Your friend,
Timothy Clay Roberts
** * *
Dear Santa:
I like you and your helpers.
I like your toys you make for
boys. Be sure to bring my little
brother, John, something. Iwant
the Lego building set. It has 536
pieces in it. lam eight years
old.
Your friend,
Mark Roberts
** * *
Dear Mr. Santa:
I hope you and Mrs. Claus have
been feeling well this year. I
know you have been very busy
getting all your toys ready for
Christmas.
I have been a real good boy
this year. lam four years old
now. Please don’t forget to
bring me a Safari Tent, elec
tric train, Cowboy in Africa Gun
Set, farm set, race car set, and
a cowboy suit with a hat and
some boots. I will tell Mom
to leave you some cake and cof
fee, so you won’t get hungry
on your long ride. I’ll see you
at the Hercules Party on Dec
ember 14.
I Love You,
Gregg Ketchem
** * *
Dear Santa Claus
Here we come again. Almost
Christmas so we want to tell you
what we want.
We are all ok. Hope you feel
the same for your long journey.
Please bring me, Lynne, a doll
and a doll carriage, piano and
bench. Please bring me, Lance,
a nice guitar and drum. HOpeall
the other little children get what plane and some more toys. open to traffic and construction
they want. You look good under Please bring Johnny a dart set, is under on an additonal 6
our tree to see what you want, a twister and two walkie-talkies. 000 m ji es>
Cake and coffee. Just wish every- Thank you from when completed the Inter
body a Merry Christmas and a Johnny and Jeff Jones state System will be the longest
Happy New Year. We are twins, ** * * interconnected super highway
2 years old. Good luck. We love Dear Santa, network in the world, Oil Facts
you. Hope you feeling just fine! Will po i n t s O ut.
Little Lynne and Lance Harper you please bring me an electric *
* * * * race track, soft ball bat, baseball
Dear Santa, bat, baseball, an electric foot- /t
lam a little girl three years ball game, a new bicycle, Sgt. At t
old, my name is Fleeta and my Storm and his equipment, a set >
brothers name is Chris. Please
bring me; a baby small talk,
a blackboard, a pop it ball (sp
ace hopper) and please bring Ch
ris: a musical top, a walking
duck, a teddy bear. lam trying
to be real good so don’t forget
me and Chris. I will have you
a Coke and cake on the hearth.
Thank you Santa.
I Love You,
Fleeta
♦* * *
Dear Santa,
Please bring me a Tippee-
Toes, Lucky Locket, purple bic
ycle with basket, musical jewe
rly box, spirograph, punch me,
last straw and spill the beans.
Sandra Townsend
** * *
Dear Santa Claus,
I have been a good boy. How
have your deers been? I hope
they are not sick. How have your
little elves been. Are they sick
too. Please bring me a bicycle.
I don’t have one. Bring me a
big jet. A lot of Army men,
jeep and army truck. Also some
fruit and candy. Remember my
little sister, she is a sweet lit
tle sister. Bring her a rattle
also a little doll. We love you
very much. Also play dough and
plastic goop.
Thank you,
Frankie Wilson
P. S. Bring sister a little bear
that plays music. And bring me
a paint set and a little teddy
bear.
♦* * *
Dear Santa Claus,
I am in the second grade at
school. I have been good. I
want a typewriter and bike. Re
member my little sister, she is
very sweet, and bring her a lots
of things.
Stanley Fouche
Vickie Fouche
** * ♦
Dear Santa,
I think that I am getting a lit
tle old for the littler toys and I
think I should be getting the big
ger things now. This is what I
want you to bring me:
I want you to bring me a Ba
sic Chern. Lab.
I like to work with stones so I
want a Tumble Stones and a Min
eralogy Laboratory.
I like to do art so I want
Art-A-Matic.
Just in case I need one I want
a slumber bag.
Sara Jean Dawkins
** * *
To Santa Claus,
Please bring Jeff a bike, an air-
Bulk Candy
Old Fashion Chocolate Drops,
Orange Slices, Jelly Drops,
and King Mix
29 c
Stick Candy
All Flavors
1 lb. Box For 39<
2 .ox 69 c
Chocolate
Or
Vanilla Fudge
49 c b
Thursday, December 12, 1968
of arrows. Johnny toy maker
and a set of army equipment and
a fort named Apache. Please
don’t forget my two Grandmoth
ers and two Granddaddies and
Mama and Daddy. I studied hard
at school and try to be a nice
little boy.
Thank you,
Bye Bye
Lanier Shropshire
j News Notes From §
§ B/Mrs.A A.Guritz x
Mrs. M. DeMore from Clarks
ville was the guest last week of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wallace and
Mrs. W. H. Smith.
** * *
Mrs. J. T. Wallace, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Ralston and children
drove to Flint, Michigan last
week and spent several days with
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wallace
and Mr. and Mrs. James Raw
ling.
♦* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Byrd
and Mr. and Mrs. Don Helm
attended the Newton County foot
ball banquet Thursday night at
the High School cafeteria.
** * *
Miss Claudine Stowe was Sat
urday guest of Dianne Wyatt and
family.
** * *
Otis Maxwell is getting along
nicely at the Rockdale Hospital
following his accident Thursday
when the car he was driving
was hit by a train in Almon.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Lawson
of Stone Mountain and Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Richardson of Dora
ville visited relatives here Sun
day.
** * *
The Almon Woman’s Club had
their Christmas party Tuesday
at the home of Mrs. Grace Ed
wards.
Interstate System
About 66% Complete
New York - Construction of
the 41,000 mile federal Inter
state Highway System is now al
most two-thirds completed, the
publication Oil Facts notes.
About 26,000 miles, or 64
percent of the system, are now