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By Robert G. Mauney
City Manager
PREPARING THE ANNUAL
BUDGET
Budget time for your City go
vernment has arrived. About this
time each year the City’s var
ious departments have submitted
their budgets to the City Manager
for review and a recommended
budget is then presented to the
Mayor and City Council for re
view and approval.
Dr. J. B. Mitchell, Jr.
Announces The Relocation
I Os His Office At I
7136 Washington Street
b Covington, Georgia ।
| Effective January 1.
b Telephone Number Will ,
Remain The Same. '
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WHAT IS OUR CITY’S BUDGET?
In terms of money, the City’s
1967 budget was $1,719,328.00.
The approved budget for 1968
was $1,852,428.00. It is now
anticipated that your City’s bud
get In 1969 will exceed $2,000,-
000.00 —a considerable sum of
money. However, your City’s
annual budget Is much more than
money. It Is a plan, expressed
"Covington's "Mr. Elk Os 1068”
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LUKE HACKETT (left) receives a hearty handshake from Covington Elks Exalted Ruler Wendell W.
Crowe on His selection as “Mr. Elk of 1968.” The award was the best suit of clothes available from a
Newton County merchant. Mr. Hackett was wearing the suit as this photo was taken.
in money, by which an operating
program for the year is pro
grammed. Through the budget
your City’s policies are made,
programs are put Into effect and
legislative and administrative
controls are established. The
annual budget, therefore, is im
portant if the City is to be op
erated in an efficient and econ
omical manner.
WHY IS THE BUDGET
IMPORTANT?
The importance of your City’s
annual budget cannot be over em
phasized. Your City’s resources
are limited and the exercise of
poor judgment with regard to
even a single job or any significant
item of equipment may produce
very adverse results. Then too,
the needs or demands of the
public are usually greater than
the City’s resources. There
fore, your Mayor and City Coun
cil must make choices concern
ing the most urgent needs. These
choices will please some but not
all of our citizens.
WHAT ARE SOME OF
THE NEEDS?
As we mentioned earlier, your
City’s annual budget is a plan or
program for the year. These
plans or programs are designed
to meet some of the needs —
not all, since the needs are grea
ter than the resources. If we
were to compile a list of public
needs for the year 1969 or later,
our list would be long. It sh
ould be since we are a growing
City. At the same time, we must
provide money for these day-to
day services such as police,
fire, sanitation, water, sewer,
etc. Then too, bond debts must
be paid each month. These fi-
THANK YOU
to my many friends who supported
me during the recent city election.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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xed expenses are much the same
as our utility, mortgage or rent
payments at home. They must
be met each month. The re
maining balance can be spent on
other needs.
Other major needs which fall
outside of the cost of day-to-day
services Include major projects
In street paving, water, storm
and sanitary sewage, electrical
expansion, increasing the capa
city of the water and sewer plants,
etc.
WHAT ABOUT NEW SERVICES?
In addition to the above budget
items, many of our citizens have
requested that new services be
added. Such programs as re
creation, mosquito control, an
nual sanitary sewer maintenance,
public zoo, community and re
creation center—to name a few.
2-CENT TAX
(From Front Page)
they are equivalent to a seven
cent-a-gallon gas tax, according
to E. M. Cope, Chief of the High
way Statistics Division of the
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads.
Wheel covers and a vinyl top
equal a two cent gas tax and
bucket seats and whitewall ti
res a cent each in cost to the
motorist, Mr. Cope says.
Again, these statistics are
averages, based on average ac
cessory costs and performance
figures, and the average 10-year,
100,000-mile trip of anautofrom
showroom to salvage yard. They
too can be personalized, howev
er.
The motorist’s extra invest
ment in such accessories incre
ases his driving pleasure or saf
ety, adds to his pride in his ve-
THE CUVINuTON NE WS
MATH IN-SERVICE
(From Front P^ge)
son, Mrs. J. O. Anderson, Mrs.
W. I. Allgood, Mrs. Floyd Allen,
Mrs. Russell Dollar, Mrs. J. R.
Thompson, Mrs. W, A. Carlton,
Mrs. E. A. Holmes, Mrs. Luke
Fuller, Miss Daryl Stimpson,
Mrs. Gwendolyn Wade, Mrs. J.
W. Loyd, Miss Mary Trippe, Miss
Pauline Hardman, and Mr. Jerry
Aldridge, principal of the Porter
dale School.
The ‘ ‘personalized in-ser
vice” program was coordinated
by Miss Louise Reeves, Curri
culum Director. Success of the
new project was attributed to the
fine cooperation and assistance of
all school principals, represen
tative teachers, Reading Aides,
and Future Teachers and their
sponsors. Typical reaction of
participants was, “This type of
hide, and enhances its value.
The Highway Department be
lieves an extra investment in
gas taxes will buy more high
way safety, pleasure and econ
omy for the motorist, help pro
vide the maintenance needed to
protect his investment in his
highway system, and stimulate
his pride in ownership of this
system.
Gas taxes, however, are an in
vestment with a difference. The
State gas tax is deductible from
the motorist’s income tax. And
unlike the returns on most oth
er investments, the savings In
time, in wear and tear on both
car and driver, and in life it
self realized by the motorist th
rough the highway improvements
these taxes buy do not have to be
reported as Income.
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Newton Circuit
Churches Hod
Yule Programs
Lovejoy and Gaithers Church
es of the Newton Circuit united
Methodist Church held special
Christmas services at their re
spective churches Sunday, Dec
ember 22.
“The Shining Star” was pre
sented by the Red Oak MYF at
the evening worship service at
the church. This was a drama
tization in the beautiful tradi
tion of the season.
At the morning service Sun
day at Gaither’s “Hie Upper
Room” was consecrated and for
mally opened. This is a new
multi-purpose addition to Gai
ther’s United Methodist Chu
rch which will provide needed
class space, kitchen and dining
facilities and a place of fellow
ship.
On New Year’s Eve at special
service will be held at Lovejoy
“A fair-weather friend is
one who is always around
when he needs you."
in-service education really helps
us.”
A second innovation of the
math in-service project was the
invitational meeting conducted at
the Snapping Shoals EMC Build
ing on Thursday afternoon be
tween 3:30 and 4:30 o’clock for
all teachers cf mathematics, gra
des 1-8. During this last ses
sion of the three-day project Mr.
Custer presented Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston’s newest elementary
mathematics program. Using an
overhead projector, he portray
ed in outline form major con
cepts introduced at various gra
de levels. Methods of teaching
those concepts were demonstra
ted by Mr. Custer with a variety
of teaching aids that he had col
lected or made for this purpose.
Attendance at the invitational
meeting was good. The group
included more than 50 teachers,
the curriculum directors, and
two principals - Mr. G. B, Hut
chinson, Ficquett School, and Mr.
N. H. Mitchell, Washington Str
eet School. The invitational
plan provides an opportunity for
every teacher who wishes to do
so to attend any and all presen
tations of new textbooks and in
structional materials. Previous
ly, only committee membershave
participated in textbook hearings.
Methodist Church at 11:15 p. m.
This will be a community wide
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THE NEWS REACHES NAZARETH
By Harriet Frye
In Bethlehem wise men have come bringing
myrrh,
The bitter cold days have begun.
And Mary the wife of the carpenter
Has brought forth her firstborn, a son.
He will run in the village and shout from the
hills,
He will walk by the sea in the sands.
And, if he inherits his father’s skills,
He will build many things with his hands.
(We are told his Kinswoman, Elizabeth,
Is convinced he will someday be king.)
Our newest addition to Nazareth
Must be making his mother’s heart sing.
We will turn out, rejoicing, to welcome her
When her journey is over and done.
For Mary the wife of the carpenter
Will bring home her firstborn, a son.
May your")
Christmapwason d>e with rejoicing.
and your friends at Southern Bell.
Southern Bell
Thursday, December 26, 1968
endeavor and the public is cori
dially invited to attend.