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OBITUARIES
The NEWS extends deepest sympathy to members of the
bereaved families.
Mrs. Hester Helton
Mrs. Hester Switzer Helton of
Decatur, passed away suddenly at
her home on Saturday, June 7.
A native of Newton County, she
was 44 years old and was em
ployed by Southern Tool Com
pany as a secretary. She was
a member of the Belvedere Me
thodist Church.
Funeral services were con
ducted on Tuesday morning, June
10, at the Chapel of Harwell Fun
eral Home with Rev. Harold Lyda,
pastor of the Julia A. Porter Me
thodist Church of Porterdale,
officiating at the last rites. In
terment was in Lawnwood Ceme
tery with J. C. Harwell and Son
Funeral Home in charge of ar
rangements. Serving as pall
bearers were Gerald Kitchens,
Pleas Knight, Luke Plunkett, N.
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Surviving are one son, Tommy
Helton, Decatur; mother, Mrs.
Ethel Switzer, Covington and one
sister, Miss Virginia Switzer, At
lanta.
Mrs. Thennie Parker
Funeral services for Mrs.
Thennie F. Parker of Route 1,
Covington, were held Wednesday
afternoon, June 11, at Stewart
Baptist Church with Rev. Gor
don White officiating. Inter
ment was in Red Oak Cemetery
with Caldwell and Cowan Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Parker was a native of
Jasper County and 67 years old
at the time of her death in a
private hospital on June 9, fol-
lowing an extended Illness. She
was a member of Stewart Bap
tist Church and the widow of the
late Oscar Lee Parker. She was
a retired employee of Bibb Man
ufacturing Company.
Surviving are one son, O. Rus
sell Parker, two brothers, Ray
Fincher, C. A. Fincher, all of
Covington; one sister, Mrs. Amy
F. Yancey, Porterdale and three
grandchildren.
Mrs. A.U. Futrelle
Funeral services for Mrs.
A. U. Futrelle of Savannah were
held Wednesday afternoon, June
4, at the First Baptist Church
in Savannah, with the pastor, Dr.
Forrest Lanier, officiating. In
terment was in Hillcrest Abbey,
Savannah.
Mrs. Futrelle passed away Tu
esday morning, June 3, following
a lingering Illness. She had been
an active member of the First
Baptist Church and had served
as president of the Missionary
Society of her church. Prior to
her illness she was active in
civic and church activities and
was a member of the Morning
Book Club of Savannah.
She Is survived by four daugh
ters, Mrs. M. E. (Josie) Goode
of Covington; Mrs. Herbert Bain
bridge, Mrs. Wyley Doty, both of
Atlanta and Mrs. F. W. DeMeritt,
Charlotte, North Carolina and
several grandchildren, nieces
and nephews.
Mrs. Goode and her family
have numerous friends through
out this area who are extending
sincerest sympathy to them in
their bereavement.
Mrs. Katie Lynch
Funeral services for Mrs.
Katie F. Lynch of Monroe, were
held Saturday afternoon, June 7,
at Canaan Baptist Church with
Elder G. A. Keaton, pastor of
Camp Creek Church at Lilburn,
officiating.
Mrs. Lynch passed away in a
private hospital on Friday,
June 6, at the age of 87. She
was a native of Jasper County
and a member of Sandy Creek
Primitive Baptist Church. Sie
was the widow of the late Edward
Clifford Lynch.
Interment was in Concord
Church Cemetery In Jasper
County with Caldwell and Cowan
Funeral Home In charge of ar
rangements. Serving as pall
bearers were Steve Jeffries, W.
R. Lynch, William Cain, Jonas
Smith, Edwin Hardeman, Jack
Lynch and L. M. Lynch.
Surviving are four sons, D. S.
Lynch, Macon; E. C. Lynch, De
catur; L. G. Lynch, Greenwood,
South Carolina; R. P. Lynch,
Pueblo, Colorado; four daugh
ters, Mrs. Mattie Hardeman,
Covington; Mrs. H. L. Burnett,
Atlanta; Mrs. W. C. Caln, Car
rollton; Mrs. Pat Jeffries, Port
erdale; brother, Arthur Faulk-
ner, Monticello; sisters, Mrs.
Syble Haddock, Fernandina,
Florida; Mrs. Ethel Walker,
Griffin; 16 grandchildren and 23
great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Hoyt Pickett
Mrs. Hoyt Pickett of Atlanta
passed away In a hospital on
Sunday, June 8, following a lin
gering illness. A native of New
ton County, she was the former
Lillian Adams, the widow of the
late Hoyt Pickett who passed away
in 1956. She was 81 years old
at the time of her death.
Funeral services were held at
Spring Hill Chapel on Tuesday
morning, June 10, with Dr. Ro
bert W. Burns, pastor of the
Peachtree Christian Church, of
ficiating at the last rites. In
terment was in the Decatur ce
metery.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. W. M. Sandifer of Atlanta
and several nieces and nephews.
"Cross And Sword”
Starts June 21
At St. Augustine
A cast of 85 persons, featur
ing professional actors, dancers
and singers, will appear In Flor
ida’s famed “Cross and Sword”
outdoor drama to open its fifth
season Saturday night, June 21st,
in the St. Augustine ampitheatre
on Anastasia Island.
The cast will include 24 act
ors, 17 dancers and 20 singers,
plus a number of extras, adults
and youngsters, directors and
theatre technicians.
The leading role, that of Don
Pedro Menendez, founder of St.
Augustine In 1565 and the high
est ranking officer of his day in
the Spanish Navy, will be played
by Philip Pleasants Lanier, of
Enterprise, Alabama.
John Chase, of Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, will appear in
the dual roles of King Philip n
and Captain Albarez.
Thomas P. Rahner, of St. Aug
ustine, who has directed the pro
duction since Its inception, will
serve In the same capacity for
the fifth season of “Cross and
Sword”. Rahner, who heads the
arts department of Flagler Col
lege, Is widely known for his
ability as a director, writer and
producer.
The St. Augustine ampitheatre,
built in 1964 specifically to house
“Cross and Sword”, has received
a major facelifting. A number of
platforms on the 5,000-foot
seven-level stage have been tak
en out and the general stage has
been moved closer to the aud
ience. A great deal of new
scenery has been constructed
for the 2,000-seat ampitheatre.
“Cross and Sword” is spon
sored by Florida’s Cross and
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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WILLIAM M. ATHA is shown above with hat on, third from left on back row, with the group he was with
while touring Switzerland, Jerusalem, Paris, Rome and other points of interest on the European Con
tinent recently. He returned to his home in Oxford last Saturday.
School Aimed For Freedom
Oi Students Back In 1912
Old documents and publications
in existence around Porterdale
have away of getting into the
hands of Miss Mae Hardman,
Bibb’s Social Worker at Porter
dale and the Bibb Recorder cor
respondent there.
Her latest find is a 1913-14
high school catalogue. Miss
Hardman was struck by the con
trast of the aims of the high
school for its students with the
apparent aims of some of today’s
rioting students. She was also
Impressed by the school’s con
cern with nature study.
Below Is Miss Hardman’s
story.
On a recent Spring afternoon,
a fourth grader, picnicking be
side a rushing river with birds
singing merrily and tiny wild
flowers surrounding her, quer
ied, “What do you mean by nat
ure?
For this reason, it seemed ap
propriate to linger with an entry
in the old, yellowed high school
“catalogue” which I held in my
hands last week. The entry
read; “Each study room has
charge of a flower garden and
is expected to keep it in good
condition. This stimulates an
interest among pupils for the
things of nature, giving them
great opportunity to get close to
and study nature from things
about us.”
Mrs. Ada Harper of Porter
dale found and shared the Annual
Catalogue of Mansfield High
School, Newton County, 1913-14.
It was one of the treasures which
her late sister, Miss Alice Cur
tis, who passed away last month,
had cherished.
Os particular Interest to mem
bers of the Bibb family was
a picture of youthful Miss Maud
King, Assistant Principal and
Teacher of History and Langua
ges. (Miss King later was prin-
Sword, Inc., a state-chartered,
non-profit organization, and was
written by Pulitzer Playwright
Paul Green to depict an emot
ionally intense, warm human st
ory of the founding of Spanish
Florida by Menendez and his band
of settlers.
The play is a restatement of
American ideals and is present
ed in colorful costumes, Indian,
folk, interpretative and classical
dances, choral music, and str
iking pageantry interwoven with
comedy to round out the story of
America’s birth.
The play will run nightly thr
ough August 31st, with the ex
ception of Thursday and is of
fered to the general public at a
nominal $2.50 general admission.
Birth
Spec 5 and Mrs. Thomas Lee
Parham announce the birth of a
son, Thomas Lee Parham, Jr.,
May 23, at Newton County Hos
pital. The maternal grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Cliff
Roberts and the paternal grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. E. T.
Parham, both of Covington.
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cipal for 21 years at Porter
dale and also a Bibb Social
Worker in Macon communities.)
And what an assignment she
had! Beginners’ Latin, English
History, Caesar, Latin Gram
mar, Ancient History, Classics,
World Analysis, Virgil, U. S.
History, Civil Government and
English Classics.
Athletics played an important
role for an announcemet read;
“Attention Is given to the phy
sical training of the boys and
girls as it has been proven that
the average pupil who takes the
most interest in athletics as a
general rule takes the most int
erest in the literary work of the
school.”
School personnel of those years
were vitally concerned about the
caliber of their faculties. This
is what I read; “Hie school
tries to keep out bad influences,
first by employing only Christian
teachers who value character
above physical strength or scho
larship, second by keeping in
close touch with pupils. Real
izing that too much importance
can not be given to a High School
Education, we have taken great
pains to select teachers who are
best prepared to do this class of
work.”
With today’s protesting and
rioting in our headlines from
our campuses, I found it infor
mative to read their aim: “Our
first aim is to make conditions
such that every pupil will feel
as free and easy in school as
they would at home.
“No pupil can do good work
laboring under embarrassment
or fear from any cause.
“The ambitious student is
given freedom and encourage
ment and the backward student
is helped to bring into use his
latent powers.” (Wonder what
today’s parents would say if their
children were possibly referred
to as 'backward’?)
“It is our purpose to stimulate
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and develop the intellect, to pro
mote good manners, and to nou
rish and develop the highest type
of character. The course of
study is designed to discipline
the mind, to accustom it to a
systematic and practical thought
and to furnish students such in
formation as to qualify him for
college or fit him for life.”
Did they succeed? I think
so! My mother was one of the
graduates listed for 1912-
1913, and to borrow from the
1969 teenagers, 'She’s great!”
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