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As we approach this Holy Sea
son, Christ’s Birthday, let each
of us pause, and in thanksgiving
to our Heavenly Father, count
the blessings He has brought us
during this past year.
Health, happiness, success,
progress to you, as well as new
friendships, and a thousand gifts
we cannot begin to list. Sure,
we have had some failures, we
have lost loved ones, or have we
just given them back to the
father, in Heaven. We have had
disappointments of many kinds...
some of which were good for us.
God knows our needs, and He
takes care of Ms own!
Would that each of us, when
sad, blue, unhappy, disappoint
ed, or wondering, could stop
still. . .Listen to the words of
our Heavenly Father. . .who
tells us that WE are HIS OWN,
and that HE watches over us,
by day and by night. . .He does
all things that are best for us.
We can’t see it that way at the
time. . .but when He causes
us to lose something we had
hoped for. . .YOU JUST WATCH!,
in due time, He always gives
you something better, and more
suitable. Don’t worry about
something you planned for, which
did not materialize. . .Just say
this, and tell your family this:
“This was not what God planned
for us, or we would have re
ceived it. . .He will send us
something better.” He WILL!
NOW how are we going to
spend this Holy Season. . .with
loved ones. . .if possible always..
It’s a time when families, and
friends, gather around the fes
tive board. However, throughout
the world the lower class (still
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ST COVERAGE OF NEWS, PICTURES, AND FEATURES OF ANY WEEKLY IN GEORGIA
The Georgia, nterprise, Established 1865—The Covington Star, Established 1874—The Enterprise, Established 1902, and The Citizen-Observer, Established 1953
VOLUME 104 NO. 8
Blue Rambler Band Christmas Concert
Tonight At 8 O’clock
Legislature Bills To Overhaul
Newton Town Council Elections
Representative W. D. Ballard
states that all the municipalit
ies in Newton County are in the
process of streamlining and mod
ernizing their governments in the
coming Georgia Legislature and
are making their operation as
uniform as possible.
In this line, The City of Cov
ington is amending its Charter
to provide new budgetry pro
cedures, allowing the City to bud
get upon anticipated revenues in
lieu of revenues of the past year.
Hie Towns of Mansfield, New
born, Oxford, and Porterdale are
amending their Charters to pro
vide for council posts to be cr
eated for the election of Coun
cilmen, and in the case of New
born and Porterdale, the terms
will be extended to two (2) years
for the Mayor and Council, and
the election date for most of the
municipalities in Newton County
could go to the polls on the same
day instead of on five (5) dif
ferent days as is now set out.
Several suggestions have been
made and the one most sugges-
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ted has been the first Wednesday
after the First Tuesday in Dec
ember. All these changes would
be effective as of the year 1970
and the elections which will be
held in 1969 for terms of office
in 1970 and/or 1971.
The Town of Oxford also is
working on proposal to place
Councilmen on a yearly salary
of $300,000 per year and is lo
oking into the prospect for ex
tending the Oxford city limits
for future expansion.
All these matters will be so
lidified and final drafts will be
prepared after the January mee
tings of the Mayor and Councils
of the several municipalities, Mr.
Ballard states.
Council Votes
3 1/2 Mills Tax Levy
The Covington City Council
voted Monday night to levy 1969
taxes at 3 1/2 mills with 1.45
mills of this for general purpose
bonds.
The other millage is earmark
ed as follows: .38 mills, to re
tire a 1958 water and sewer im
provement bond; .19 mills,tore
tire a 1958 municipal building
bond; .04 mills, to retire a 1958
airport bond; .30 mills, to retire
a 1965 electric system improve
ment bond; .42 mills, to retire a
1965 street improvement bond;
and .72 mills, to retire a 1965
water and sewer bond.
Approval was voted after the
second reading of an ordinance
calling for the handling of tax
returns by mail.
Woodlawn Avenue was placed
on the list of streets to be curb
ed, guttered, and storm drains
installed.
The Council voted to purchase
a Weaver hydraulic lift to be
used in the greasing of all city
equipment. The City will also
purchase an intoximeter to be
used in testing persons for driv
ing under the influence of alco
hol.
Kiwanis Installation
Os ’69 Officers Today
Kiwanis Club of Covington will
install the 1969 slate of officers
at the club’s regular weekly
meeting today (Thursday) at the
Teen Can building at 1 p. m.
The new president of the club
for the next nine months will be
Dean Bond Fleming of Oxford.
He succeeds Philip Cohen in that
position. Vice Presidents for
1969 are Terry Avery and Ed
Robinson. Other officers for the
coming year are: Johnny Pres-
First Baptist Church To
Present Christmas Cantata
The Adult Choir of the First
Baptist Church of Covington will
present the Christmas Cantata,
“The Night of Miracles,’’ by
John W. Peterson at its regular
evening worship service, Sunday,
December 22, at 7:30 o’clock.
The Choir will be under the
direction of Alan Mitchell, Min
ister of Music. The accompan
iests for the choir will be Mrs.
Walter L. Loden and Mrs. T.
A. Rape. Narrator of the Can-
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1968
The Newton County High School Blue Rambler Symphonic Band will
present their annual Christmas Concert tonight (Thursday) December
19, at 8 o’clock at the Newton High Auditorium. The Band is con
ducted by Basil Rigney.
To open the concert the group
will play a rolicking circus mar
ch by Henry Fillmore, “Rolling
Thunder”. Fillmore’s marches,
although not as well known as the
ones by his contemporary, John
Philip Sousa, have become fa
vorites of school bands across
the country.
The second number is the Ra
fael Mendez arrangement of the
Bull Fighters Song, “La Virgen
de la Marcarena”. James Peay,
All-State trumpet player, will
be the featured soloist.
The finale to the “William
Tell Overture”, by Rossina, is
unlike the traditional Overtures
and is among the best of its
kind and one of the most popu
lar in the entire range of orc
hestral literature. Erick Leid
zen made the arrangement for
symphonic band.
Susan Chester will be fea
tured in Sammy Nestico’s very
recent work, “Persuasion”. This
will be an alto saxophone solo with
band accompaniment.
Also presented on the program
will be “The Dragoons of Vil
lars”, Maillart; “Concertino for
Clarinet OP 26”, Weber. Kathy
Klimaszewski will perform the
clarinet solo part for this se
lection; “French National De
file”, Furlet and a well known
Latin American favorite “The
Peanut Vendor”, arranged by
John Morrissey.
The final numbers are directly
related to the Christmas season
and will be Leroy Anderson’s
composition based on familiar
Christmas Carols, “A Christ
mas Festival” and the “Hallelu
jah Chorus”, from Handel’s im
mortal “The Messiah.”
Admission for the concert will
be SI.OO for adults and 50 cents
for students.
Members of this year’s Blue
Rambler Band are: Oboe-Ber
lene Mitchell. Flute - Glenda
Chapman, Becky Ballard, Gay
Bankston, Barbara Harper, Mary
Thiemen, Deborah Capes. Cl
arinet - Kathy Klem, Janice Tuck,
Deborah Anderson, Donna Mor
gan, Beverly George, Lynn Cor-
cott, secretary; E. E. (Buck)
Callaway, treasurer; and past
president Philip Cohen.
Members of the club’s board
of directors are: Jordan Calla
way, Henry Caulkins, Rucker
Ginn, Sutton Hardy, Johnny Ma
loney, Spence Ramsey, Charles
Strickland, and Edgar Wood.
President Cohen has announ
ced that Christmas Music will
be a part of the program today.
Youngster Greets Santo At Hercules Christmas Party
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“I’M NOT QUITE SURE” seems to be the reaction of the baby above as Santa presents a stocking of
goodies at the Hercules party. “Mr. Santa, could I just have that pipe?”
ry, Linda Loyd, Diane Carnes,
Jane Corry, Vicki Durden, Kim
Puckett, Debbie Scarborough,
Joan Lewis, Donna Campbell.
Bassoon-Steve Luke. Bass
Clarinet - Lanelie Coggin, Kae
Henderson, Deborah Phillips.
Contra-Bass Clarinet - Sammy
Williams. Alto Saxophone - Sus
an Chester, Lynn Rainey, Gaylor
Dial, Karon Phillips. Tenor Sa
xophone - Bryant Steele, Reg
Henry, Terry Davenport. Bari
tone Saxophone - Randy Higgins,
Horns - Lynn Jones, Doug Har
grove, Sandi Ison, Charles Kesl
er.
Cornet - Jim Peay. David
Brown, Ricky Edwards, Jerry
Mclntosh, Mike Roseberry,
Rhyse Griffin, Otis Criswell,
Teddy Piper, Kim Austin, Gary
Brown, Tim Moore. Trumpet-
Mike Whatley, John Jones. Tro
mbone-Randy Kirkus, Henry Un
ger, Delada May, Kim Allen,
Chris Moore, Marshall Ginn,
Billy King, Charles Ledford.
Baritone - Raymond Ham
monds, Rachael king, Jerry Iso.
Bass-Leslie Fuller, Eddie No
lan, Paul Jernigan, Tommy Arm
strong. Percussion-Robbie Ra
pe, Mike Walden, Steve Harville,
Randy Forrester, Johnny Allen.
Tympani-Ricky Cordell.
News Ad Deadline
Monday 3 P.M.
The Covington NEWS will have
an early deadline for advertising
and news next week due to Wed
nesday being Christmas day. The
NEWS next week will be made up
and printed on Tuesday, Decem
ber 24 in order that our employ
ees may spend the holiday with
their families.
Readers of The NEWS will re
ceive their copy on Thursday
morning as usual as the post of
fices also take Wednesday, De
cember 25, off from work.
All advertisers and country
correspondents, and others who
may have news articles for the
paper next week, are asked to
turn in their copy by Monday af
ternoon, December 23. Your co
operation will be greatly appre
ciated.
Sowell Wins
Lamar Sowell won the Cov
ington City Council runoff elec
tion held yesterday (Wednesday)
over incumbent J. E. Loyd for
the Post 4 council seat.
Sowell had 345 votes and Loyd
273, with five voided votes.
First Methodist Church
Plans Special Services
The First United Methodist
Church of Covington will hold
two special Christmas worship
services this Sunday, December
22. At the eleven o’clock worship
hour, "The Reverend E. Owen
Kellum, Jr., pastor, will preach
the Christmas sermon, “An Old,
Old Story.” The fourth candle
in the advent wreath will be ligh
ted, a tradition which this con
gregation has renewed within its
services during Advent.
Special Christmas music will
be presented by Hie Chancel
Choir, with George Hutchinson
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as soloist, and by Mrs. Martin
Goode, at the organ. Mrs. Owen
Kellum will direct the choir in
the singing of Johann Sebastian
Bach’s “Break Forth, O Beau
teous Heavenly Light” and “Al
leluia For Christmas”. They
will also sing W. A. Mozart’s
“Gloria” from “TTie Twelfth
Mass.”
The Christmas Music and Can
dlelighting Service, including a
festival of nine lessons and ca
rols, will be held at the seven
thirty worship hour. First Met
hodist has for several years held
its candlelighting service on Ch
ristmas Eve, but because this
year that day comes only two days
following the Sunday services,
this congregation plans to hold
Fire Truck Is
Available In
County Areas
The new county fire truck
tanker is available for struct
ural fires in the county-areas.
The tanker, purchased recently
by the county and operated by the
Covington Fire Department, cost
approximately SIO,OOO.
The much-needed tanker for
fighting fires involving houses,
barns and buildings, was pur
chased through the efforts of
Newton County Commissioner
Tom Bates.
The Fire Dept, announced that
citizens of the county having
structural fires should call 786-
5312. Other than structural fires
such as woodlands, grass, etc.
the fire should be telephoned in to
the local Forestry Unit 786-
3742.
Price 1 s<£
its traditional candlelighting ce
remony at the close of the festi
val of carols presented by the
three choirs this Sunday evening.
The hour will begin with a
candlelight procession of the ch
oirs, followed by the reading of
lessons of scripture by Rick Ed
wards, Fred Alexander, and Bill
Everitt. After each of the nine
lessons is read, carols of many
countries of the world will be
sung. Included will be carols
of France, England, Germany,
Mexico, Spain, Japan, Austria,
and America. The choirs will
also sing plainsong from the twe
lfth and thirteeneth centuries,
music from the pen of Praet
orlus, Hugo Jungst, George Fr
ederick Handel, Kathryn Hill
Rawls, Roberta Bitgood, and
Buryi Red. The familiar “O
Holy Night”, “Away In A Man
ger,” “Silent Night”, and “An
gels We Have Heard On Iflgh”
could not be omitted. The Re
verend Owen Kellum will lead
the congregation as they light
their candles within the darkened
sanctuary, symbolizing the com
ing of the Christ Child Into their
hearts once again, and with this
light they go out into the world
to serve. All are invited to at
tend First Methodist during these
special days.
Sunday, December 29, the col
lege students from First Method
ist will participate at both the
morning and evening services,
and they will be honored on this
Student Recognition Day at a re
ception following this evening
worship hour. The traditional
Watch Night and Communion Ser
vice will be held on New Year’s
Eve in the sanctuary at 11:15
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