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Thursday, June 5, 1969
Long Business Agenda Faces
The North Georgia Methodists
United Methodists in North
Georgia will find a long agenda
facing them when their annual
conference meets June 16-20 at
Emory University in Atlanta.
High on that agenda will be
consideration of a plan for merg
ing white and black annual con
ferences in Georgia and total bud
getary askings of nearly $3 mill
ion.
The conference will include 1,-
200 delegates, composed of lay
men and ministers, who will meet
general sessions at Glenn Memo
rial United Methodist Church.
Other committee meetings and
luncheons are scheduled for var
ious parts of the university.
For the first time in several
years, the North Georgia Confe
rence will not be asked to in
crease its World Service and
Finance budget. This is the bud
get which supports regional and
national causes of the church
as well as conference benevol
ences and related expenditures.
W. W. Moore, conference treasu
rer, said overall figures for such
causes would not be increased.
He said, however, an asking for
support of higher education would
be increased from $1.50 per
member to $1.75.
Moore said the “conference
co-ordinate budget” for 1969-
1970 would total $1,514,174. Addi
tional askings for causes such as
a conference funds crusade,
missions, and ministerial educa
tion would bring the year’s to
tal budgtary requests to nearly
$3,000,000 or roughly the same
amount as this year’s totals.
Final reports on finances,
membership and related statis
tics will be completed by local
churches on May 31. These are
not expected to be available un
til the annual conference con-
EXHIBIT “A”
TOWN OF MANSFIELD, GEORGIA
Consolidated Balance 9ieet
December 31, 1968
ASSETS
Current Assets $
Cash 1*676
Accounts Receivable 62
Property Taxes Receivable 9 977
Loans & Advances ’ 421
Inventories
Prepard Expenses 25,095
Total Current Assets
Fixed Assets
Property Plant & Equipment $ 286,544 ——
Less Reserve for Depreciation 6,604
Total
LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities $ 2,330
Accounts Payable 14
Reserve for Payroll & Sales Taxes 608
Due Peace officers’ Assoc. -
Deposits payable — Water & lights 3,521
Total Current Liabilities
nA 301,514
Applicable to current Operations $ 21,574 ————-
Applicable to Fixed Assets J 2795940 ^os^o3^
Schedule “B-l”
TOWN OF MANSFIELD, GEORGIA
Analysis of Revenue
December 31, 1968
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Electrical Department
Sale of Electricity $ 25,3 2n'm
Customer Repairs “ •
Late Charges “3^3
Pole Rental _____
Total 05.5^87
Water Department
Sale of Water $
Tapping Fees ZHti.bi
Total ' 12^1
Streets Department
Grant — State of Georgia
General Government
Property Taxes $ 4 ’sqs*on
Business Licenses snn
Building Permits
Fines & Costs
Interest, Discounts, Miscl. 188,97
Total $ 6,974.27
Schedule “B-2”
TOWN OF MANSFIELD, GEORGIA
Analysis of Operating Expenses
December 31, 1968
Electrical Water Streets General
Account Dept. Dept. Dept. Govt. Total
Auto, Truck & Equip. Expenses $ 74.76 $ 74.76 $ 523.29 $ 184.76 $ 857.57
Bank Charges 2,00 2,00
Current Purchased 12,161.67 12,161.67
Civil Defense 159.86 159.86
City Election 173.38 173.38
Dues & Subscriptions 79.13 79.13
Insurance — Fire & Liab. 27.00 92.00 119.00
Insurance — Group 114.70 114.70
Legal Fees 50.00 50.00
Office Supplies & Expenses 171.76 171.76
Refunds & Adtustments ^8 3.50 47.60 51.58
ReSS & Supplies 6 4,476.21 1,863.64 4,534.07 126.50 11,000.42
Salaries & Wages 1,527.85 2,994.50 3,170.41 3,191.10 10,883.86
S S Taxes 67.89 133.08 134.54 105.08 440.59
Telephone “H 8 141.88
Garbage Dump 102.50 102.50
Peace officers’ Fund 7 3.00 73.00
Police Uniforms 8 4 , ®S
Advertising 139.72 139.72
Miscellaneous — Not Classified 306.94 306.94
Totals SI^WIB6 SS,O4M§ sß,3Baji $5,346.84 $37,114.49
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venes on June 16.
The conference treasurer said,
however, that all churches are
expected to complete payments
on conference askings by time of
the annual conference. He said
he expected no decrease in con
tributions from the same period
of last year.
As usual the annual conference
will open on Monday with a memo
rial service for ministers and
ministers’ wives who have died
in the last year. It will be
followed by a service of Holy
Communion administered by Bis
hop John Owen Smith of Atlanta
and his eleven district superin
tendents.
On Wednesday, June 18, the
conference will turn to an eight
page plan of merger which would
merge administrative make-up
of white and black conferences
in Georgia. The Georgia Con
ference, which contains 30,000
black members, adopted the plan
by a 116 to 7 vote on May 22.
The South Georgia Annual Con
ference is scheduled to consider
it June 4.
The proposal would create two
new United Methodist annual con
ferences in the state with the
same boundaries and names as
the North Georgia and South
Georgia Conferences. A total of
390,000 members, of which 30,-
000 are bleak, would be included
in the new make-up. All con
ference and district organization
would be merged racially but lo
cal churches would not be direct
ly affected.
The plan provides for appoint
ment of a black superintendent to
a predominantly white district
in each of the two new confer
ences. This would be left to
the discretion of Bishop Smith,
however, in keeping with present
Ficquett School’s Eighth Grode Graduation Class Os 1969
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THE 1969 GRADUATING CLASS of E. L. Ficquett School in Covington is shown
in the photo above in the school cafetorium. This is one of the largest eighth grade
laws of the United Methodist Ch
urch.
If passed by a simple majori
ty of each conference in Georgia,
the plan would become effective
in June of 1970.
Reports presented to the North
Georgia Annual Conference will
total more than 70. These will
touch on virtually every area of
church activity ranging from
missions and evangelism to Ch-
Mercer 11. Honoree
C. THOMAS ALLGOOD, JR., of
105 Hamill St., Oxford, has been
named one of four justices on
the Court of Honor and Correc
tions at Mercer University’s Wal
ter F. George School of Law.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil T. Allgood, Sr. Allgood
will be a senior in the law school
next year. He is a member of
Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
ristian education and social con
cerns. The conference will aver
age meeting ten hours daily for
the five day period.
Appointment of pastors will be
the last order of business be
fore the body adjourns on Fri
day. Bishop Smith said that
approximately one-third of the
conference’s 634 ministers are
expected to receive changes in
assignments. These would take
effect July 3.
Conference preacher will be
Bishop W. McFerrin Stowe of
Wichita, Kansan. Speaker for the
annual laymen’s day luncheon will
be Judge Jerry Bray of Chesa
peake, Va. The laymen’s lunch
eon will be held June 18 at 12:30
p. m. at Grace United Methodist
Church.
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Temperatures
Covington temperatures dur
ing the past week, according to
Weatherman Jack Chapman,
were;
High Low
Tues., May 27th 80 62
Wed., May 28th 81 59
Thur., May 29th 87 58
Fri., May 30th 90 64
Sat., May 31st 90 64
Sun., June Ist 90 64
Mon., June 2nd 88 65
Total inches of rain for the
month of May 5.97 inches.
12 DUI Cases
In City Court
Twelve cases were called for
trial for driving under the infl
uence of Intoxicants in the weekly
session of the Covington City Co
urt Monday morning by Judge E.
W. Strozier. Most of the subjects
so charged, forfeited their cash
bond rather than face the Judge.
Speeding and reckless driving
cases also took up a lot of the
court’s time Monday, speeding
cases numbered six, and reck
less driving was the charge on
five cases.
Eight persons charged with
public drunkenness also had their
cases called for a hearing, but
most of those chose not to ap
pear, and thereby left their bond
money in the city treasury.
Bible School Set
At Porterdale
Bible School will start June
9th from 9 A. M. to 12 and go
through June 13th for ages th
rough 12 years at the Porter
dale Baptist Church.
“We would love to have all
the children come June 7th for
registration date and parade at
10 A. M. at the church,” stated
a church official.
Harvest time for California
ripe olives begins usually in
mid-September and continues
into December.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Bagby Asks President Nixon
To Delay Alcovy Ditching
By Jim Morrison
The director of Georgia’s
Game and Fish Commission has
called on President Nixon to de
lay federal funds for a pair of
contraversial watershed pro
jects.
In a letter to the President,
Game and Fish Director George
T. Bagby said that the projects
included plans to ditch the Al
covy River and two tributaries
and to .drain adjacent swamp
lands. Bagby told the Presi
dent that the proposed cons
truction work would “threaten the
last remaining source of pure
water in Lake Jackson, the favo
rite fishing spot of more than
80,000 Georgians and more than
800 lake front property owners.”
Bagby said that it would cost
the federal government more than
SBOO an acre to make possible
drainage of land only valued at
S3OO an acre. Quoting figures
contained in the work plan for
the project prepared by the U.
S. Soil Conservation Service,
Bagby said “Channelingßo.B mil
es of these three streams to
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classes at the school since it was opened in 1956. This photo arrived too latefor
The Covington News to use in the Graduating Issue, May 29th.
make possible the drainage of
4,326 acres of privately own
ed swamp land as proposed by
the SCS will cost the U. S. tax
payer $3,494,432 for construc
tion and engineering costs, or
$807.77 an acre.”
Mr. President, the taxpayers
of Georgia connot understand why
the federal government should
take our tax money to create
additional acres of croplands,”
Bagby said, “while at the same
time it uses our tax money to
pay landowners to keep land out
of production through programs
like the soil bank, while placing
acreage allotments on crops and
purchasing and storing surplus
crops with our tax money. It
doesn’t make sense to them,
or to me,” the Game and Fish
Chief said.
Pointing out that the Presi
dent’s Council on Recreation and
Natural Beauty called for efforts
to retain or restore natural chan
nels, vegetation, and fish and
wildlife habitats on streams in
volved in federal flood control
projects, Bagby said that the Fe-
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deral Soil Conservation Service
had refused to even consider
the projects of wildlife conser
vationists to the channelization
of the Alcovy above Lake Jack
son.
“It doesn’t make sense for one
Federal agency to be destroying
wildlife habitat as fast as it
can, while another federal agency
tries to preserve it,” the Dir
ector said. “During the last 20
years, drainage projects like
those of the U. S, Soil Conser
vation Service have destroyed th
ree to four million acres of bot
tomland hardwoods in the Sou
theast of significance to water
fowl.” Bagby said that “At the
same time, the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service has only been
able to purchase 158,751 acres
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of wintering ground habitat for
waterfowl from 1948 to 1968 at
a cost of $12,043,325 in duck
stamp funds of sportsmen. It
doesn’t take a mathematician to
realize that wildlife and the
scenic beauty of our country
are on the losing end, and that
our money is being wasted,” Bag
by said.
“At a time when the number
of hunters and fishermen in our
state and nation are rapidly in
creasing, we can scarely afford
to wantonly destroy the remain
ing vestiges of wildlife habitat
that civilization has so far spar
ed from the bulldozer and the
dragline,” he wrote.
Bagby told the President that
his Department was not opposed
to the construction of 15 smaH
dams on the Alcovy and its tri
butaries, only the channelization
below those dams, but upstream
from Lake Jackson.
“Channelization of the Alcovy
River will do irreparable harm
to the wildlife and scenic values
of this unique wild area,” he
said. “Increased sedimentation
caused by the construction of the
channels will threaten the last
remaining source of pure water
in Lake Jackson.”
Bagby quoted a biological re
search project of the North Caro
lina Wildlife Resources Com
mission that indicated the game
fish populations In channeled st
reams supported 90 per cent less
game fish than natural streams.
The Alcovy channelization has
been actively opposed by the
Georgia Sportsmen’s Federation
and the Georgia Conservancy,
the state’s two largest conserva
tion organizations.
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