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Thursday, July 31, 1969
Lovejoy Homecoming Sunday Was Memorable Occasion For Members And Friends
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HOMECOMING WAS OBSERVED at Lovejoy United Methodist Church on Sunday,
July 27. Officers and members of the church are shown seated left to right Mrs.
Katie Pickett, Miss Jimmie Gilham and Mrs. Clara Smith. Second row is Mrs.
Lovejoy Homecoming Launches
Week Os Revival Services
Lovejoy United Methodist Ch
urch reached another milestone
in Its progressive history Sun
day morning with the annual
homecoming service which marks
the opening of a week of revi
val.
Some 175 members, former
members, and visitors gathered
for the service and the dinner
that was spread under the huge
oak trees at the noon hour.
The Rev. J. W. Eberhardt,
pastor of the Newton Circuit from
1945-1948 and present pastor of
the Burns Memorial United Me
thodist Church in Augusta, br
ought the homecoming message.
Rev. Eberhardt spoke on the
contrasts of the past and our pre
sent day society; the role of the
church today; and the challenges
that we face in our space age
world.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this week’s revival ser
vices that are in progress this
week each evening at 7:45 p. m.
through Thursday night.
The revival services will be
preached by the Rev. Robert Whit
eside, pastor of the Barnesville
Circuit.
The Rev. Jim Luke, pastor of
the Newton Circuit which is made
up of Lovejoy, Red Oak, and
Gaithers churches, welcomed the
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guests to homecoming and invit
ed everyone to attend the revi
val services this week.
Lovejoy, one of this sections
outstanding rural churches, knew
its beginning in a little school
house on the site where High Po-
'Church Renewal’
Revival At
Oxford Church
A week of “Church Renewal”
Revival is scheduled for the Ox
ford Baptist Church from August
3 through August 8 inclusive,
according to an announcement
by the pastor, Rev. Kent Anglin.
Guest minister for the meet
ing will be the Reverend Clar
ence Drummond, pastor of the
Brown Mill Park Baptist Church
in Atlanta. Gerald Dimsdale
will be in charge of the song
services.
The Nursery will be available
each night of the revival.
Oxford Baptist Church is a new
edifice on North Emory Street.
The church members have Issued
an invitation for the general pub
lic to worship with them during
the coming meeting.
James Daniels and Mrs. James Nolen. Standing left to right back row are J. O.
Mask, E H Fincher, Rev. J. W. Eberhardt of Augusta, former pastor of the church;
James Daniels, Rev. Jim Luke, Pastor; A. S. Mask and Ernest Savage.
ing Baptist Church is located.
Organized with 25 charter
members in 1889, a building was
completed in 1890 on the pre
sent Jackson Highway site, donat
ed by Messers Morris and Cook.
In 1947 the old building was
razed,and the present edifice er
ected within the year. A modern
recreational and educational
building was added in 1953 on
the church grounds.
The membership has continued
to grow, and interest in the ch
urch’s progress has remained
keen through the years. During
Ga. Seeks Increase In Manpower
Programs In Recent Reports
Atlanta, —Manpower programs
in Georgia administered by the
Manpower Administration of the
U. S. Department of Labor show
ed an increase between March
and April of this year, according
to William U. Norwood, regional
manpower administrator here.
Manpower programs in Geor
gia during April 1969, the date
of the latest report, had 8,356
unemployed or underemployed
Georgians in them. The month
the past two years a new heat
ing and air conditioning system
has been installed; Improvements
and painting of the sanctuary has
been completed; new altar cur
tains and cushions have been
added; and a new deep well and
pump has been installed.
The three churches of the New
ton Circuit have dedicated them
selves to the retirement of the
debt for the new circuit parso
nage which was finished earlier
this year. So far they have
paid off over $5,000 of the debt
this year.
before there were 8,302.
Nationally, progress made In
two programs -- Job Opportuni
ties in the Business Sector (JOBS)
and Work Incentive (WIN) - help
ed push the number of persons
in major manpower training pro
grams up 35 percent over last
year, Secretary of Labor George
P. Shultz announced today.
The JOBS activity showed an
increase from 239 to 277 in Geor
gia in the same period, in JOBS
government and business work to
gether to hire hard-core unem
ployed who receive intensive sup
portive services as they are
trained on the job.
Nation-wide, as of May 30,
406,000 disadvantaged persons
were enrolled in Labor Depart-
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ment sponsored programs, com
pared with 301,000 at the same
time last year.
May was also the second suc
cessive month in which the num
ber of persons enrolled in man
power programs nationally went
over the 400,000 mark, secre
tary Shultz said the 400,000 en
rollment figure is a new high for
Federal manpower programs ex
cept for summer months when the
influx of temporary Neighborhood
Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees has
upped enrollment.
Norwood reported that in Geor
gia at the end of April 1969:
2,479 enrollees were in Man
power Development and Training
Act (MDTA) programs, 1,503 be
ing in institutional and 976 in
on-the-job training. MDTA
helps unemployed gain new skills
and underemployed upgrade skills
either on the job or in school.
4,731 youngsters were in the
NYC, which provides jobs for in
school and out-of school young
sters to help them stay in school,
return to school, or get work
experience.
112 were enrolled in the Opera
tion Mainstream program, which
pays older workers in small towns
and rural areas to work on public
improvement projects.
757 unemployed or underem
ployed were provided with job
training under the Concentrated
Employment Program (CEP).
Shultz reported that the JOBS
program had hired and was train
ing 23,000 jobless persons under
Labor Department contracts th
roughout the country as of May
1969. This was almost double the
12,000 participation figure for
December 1968.
The WIN program, nationally,
had 60,000 enrollees in May, the
Secretary of Labor reports. This
figure has been achieved since
last September when the pro
gram became operative.
The first electric dishwasher
was marketed around 1910,
and the first electric refrigerator
was installed about 1913.
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Rigney, McLaney To Attend GEA Plan Session
Elected leaders from the 209
Georgia Education Association
Local Units will launch their
year’s planning at their Local
Leaders School of Instruction
which meets August 6-7-8 at the
Center for Continuing Education
in Athens.
The purpose of the School of
Instruction for local leaders Is
to learn more of the functions
of their responsibilities, get up
to-date information on all GEA
and NEA programs, meet state
and national leaders and receive
necessary inspiration for for
mulating the year’s programs.
Information programs have
been planned around Legislation,
Public Relations, Professional
Rights and Responsibilities, Tea-
Homecoming At
Mt. Pleasant
Set Sunday
Homeconrtng services will be
held at Mt. Pleasant United Me
thodist Church on Sunday,
August 3. Following the 11
o’clock church service a basket
dinner will be served on the
church grounds. Preaching the
Homecoming service will be the
pastor of the church, Rev. Mel
Simons.
Rev. Simons announced re
vival services will start with the
evening service at 7:30 Sunday
and continue through August 8,
with services starting at 7:30
each evening. He and members
of the church cordially Invite
everyone to attend any and all
of these services.
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1114 Pace St. 786-2330
cher Education and Professional
Standards, Membership and Eco
nomic Services.
Dr. Franklin Shumake, GEA
President, will preside at the
General Sessions and Dr. Carl
V. Hodges, Executive Secretary,
Macedonia To Have Beautification
The Macedonia Neighborhood
Club, organized on May 29th,
has continued to meet and has sel
ected the beautification of their
church as a project.
Ed Hunt, Newton County Agent,
has assisted the group with land
scaping plans which will include
lawn, shrubbery, walk and grove
area. Hie proposed plans have
been approved by the church
membership and the cleanup will
begin in August.
All persons interested in help
ing are invited to meet August 4,
at 10;00 a. m. at the Macedonia
Baptist Church.
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of the more than 30,000 member
organization will keynote the
Conference.
Invited from Newton County
are Basil Rigney, Pres., Newton
County GEA Unit; Milton A. Mc-
Laney, V. P., Newton County GEA
Unit.
Kiwanians To
Get Convention
Report Today
Covington Klwanls Club mem
bers will be given a report of
the 1969 International Conven
tion, held at Miami Beach,
Fla., when the civic organize- -
tlon gathers today (Thursday)
at the Teen Can at 1 p. m.
W. J. Dickey, the delegate of :
the Covington Club, will make -
his report of the event. Dean
Bond Fleming, president, of the
local club, will preside at the
meeting today.
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