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By the Office Boy
FABULOUS! Yes, that is the
only word we can think of to de
scribe the beauty of DeKalb Col
lege! Beautiful buildings for
blocks it seems, just one story
buildings. . .ROOms spacious and
so planned that it means abso
lute quiet, perfect seating and
desk space; ‘‘slip-up” clean; air
conditioned just right, Thereisno
use in having an Office Boy des
cribe it, « .YOU get in your car
and drive up there and SEE it.
‘‘Seeing is believing!” NO, we
wish we had started back to sc~
hooll, . .Two buildings were gi
ven over for Wednesday and to=-
day; to the ladies of the State
Womans Club, We think there
must have been thousands of la
dies there, more or perhaps,
much less, . .but they were
workers, learning new business;
how to put many state projects
over, , .but ‘‘Fellers and Girls”
« « «YOU Business Leaders, Mer
chants, Doctors, Lawyers and
Chiefs! Stop! Look! and Lis
ten!
The ladies of Georgia (right
here in Covington too) have left
that meeting witha determination
in their hearts and minds to make
their city and county the finest
in the State, YOU will have to
cooperate 100 per cent! Investi
gate our laws on Water and Air
Pollution, Find out if they are
being enforced. 2: Workfor nee
ded legislation (local State and
National) and the funds to en
force them, 3, Find out what
Air Pollution does to you, your
Home and your community. 4.
Take groups of children, such as
schools, Scouts, foster homes,
girls clubs, boys clubs on tours
of dorms, filtration plants and
industrial plants, 5. Trash
burning pollutes the air, Encour=
age local officials to pass ore
dinances prohibiting burning of
trash in congestedareas, 6. Work
with other local clubs and/or
communities to take full ad
vantage of State and Federal
Funds for Air and Water Pol
lution Control. 7. Insist that in
dustries in your area use pol=
lution control devices, 8, Obtain
and distribute pamphlets to boat
owners on what they can do for
clean and safe waters, 9, At
tend a Conservation Work Shop,
10, Observe, in some manner,
¢¢Cleaner Air Week’ — Octo
ber (last full week), Make pos~
ters and display them in public
places, sponsor poster and essay
week, Sponsor poster and essay
contest and place winners on
public display, with prizes for
winners, Have localofficial(city,
county and state) to speak on
pending legislation regarding
pollution control. , Havelocal in
dustrialists to explain to club
the problems of industry in pol
lution field, . .Order material
from; Georgia Water Quality
Control Board . . . State Health
Bldg,, 47 Trinity Ave, S, W,
Atlanta, Ga, 30334, . »
BEAUTIFICATION AND GAR
DEN DIVISION: Aim, . .To help
each Georgia Club woman be=-
come aware of the needfor beau=-
tification of her own community.
(Our merchants are cooperating
in beautifying fronts of their bu
siness houses withflowers, plan
ters and otherwise, Look at the
urns of bright red geraniums at
Wood=Dickersons, . .more urns
at Ramseys, . Bank of Coving
ton cooperating . . « Covington
Furniture, . .and way out at
Hardman’s some bright petunias
blooming their little heads off
around a telephone pole, where
there was a wee bit of earth
between the pcle and the pave
ment, . \We will make a tour next
week and see who has coopera=-
ted, . +we know they all will in
time, . .green artificial plants,
many variegated colors can be
used during the winter months
to great advantage,
Let’s establish a ¢“Community
Plant Bank”, . .if you have much
land, plant lots of petunia seed
next spring and offer them to
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THESE TWO AUTOS collided at the corner of Reynolds and Monticello streets in Covington Sunday
afternoon about 2 p. m. just as the electricity went off in the city. The station wagon at left was driven
by Everett Dedrick Christiansen of Thomasville, and the Plymouth (right) was driven by James Rufus
Hewell of Porterdale, Patrolman Buddy Allen investigated the accident.
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VOLUME 104 NO, 41
Salem Camp Meeting Starts Friday
Newton County First
Graders Test Schedules
The Newton County children
who will be Ist graders in the
1969-70 school term and have
not been tested during May or
June or were not in the Title
I Preschool program willbe test
ed at various schools during the
last week of August and the first
week in September.
Parents are requested to plan
for their child to be at the school
for the full two and one-=half
hours scheduled. During this time
the child will participate in ace~
tivities which are structured to
help determine his readiness for
the academic work of the first
grade. All Ist graders entering
Area Planning
Director Was
Bert Sparrow, Executive-Dir=
ector of the Northeast Georgia
Area Planning Commission, was
the guest speaker at the August
meeting of the Covington-Newton
County Chamber of Commerce,
Monday, at the Teen Can build
ing,
Mr, Sparrow explained the
work and function of the various
planning areas around the State
of Georgla, These consist of
several counties banded toget
her to achieve economic deve=-
lopment of their particular area,
When he concluded his talk he
answered several questionsfrom
C of C members,
The speaker was intrecduced by
Newton County Commission Che
airman Jack Morgan, Hugh Ste
ele presided at the meeting as
president of the civic organiz
ation,
All the members of the Newe
ton County Commission were
present for the meeting, Other
than Chairman Morgan, E, M,
McCart, Oliver Capes, Alton Jol
ley, C, E, Trainer and Harold
Dobbs were present,
Other . visitors at the meeting
included: Walter Partee of Cov
ington, City Councilman Moody
Summers, Werner Gruenhut, Ox
ford Mayor A, W, Jackson, and
Webster Denny of Montgomery,
Alabama,
Dr. Charles Gibboney Is
Rotary Speaker Tuesday
Dr. Charles H, Gibboney, now
serving the First Presbyterian
Church in Bristol, Tenn., will
speak to The Covington Rotary
Club Tuesday, Aug, 12th at 12:30
p. m. E, G, Lassiter, Program
Chairman, will introduce the
speaker.
Dr. Gibboney, a Past District
Governor of Rotary International,
and Past President of The Augus=-
ta Rotary Club was Pastor of the
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Ch
urch from 1956-66 attended by the
late Dwight D, Eisenhower when
vacationing in Augusta.
Dr. Gibboney, a native of Roa
noke, Virginia, was educated at
the University of The South, Sew
anee Tenn. and the University of
Virginia. He received his Bache=-
lor Divinity from the Union Theo=-
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schools in Newton County must
take this test before being per
manently placed in any Ist grade
classroom. Therefore, it is ur
gent that the parents have the child
present at this scheduled time.
Should there be conflicts inwhich
the parent is unable to have his
child at the designated school
at the time set, please call 786~
9575 for a substitute date,
The schedule is as follows:
Those children entering E, L.
Ficquett, Mansfield, or Heard-
Mixon must be tested on Monday,
August 25, at the E, L. Ficquett
School from 9 o’clock through
11:30 A, M, if their last name
begins with the letters from A
through M. 1:30 to 4:00 P, M.
if their last name begins with
N to Z.
Palmer Stone School, Tues
day, August 26, 9:00-11:30 A, M,
if their last name begins with the
letters from A through M, 1:30
to 4:00 P, M, if their last name
begins with N to Z.
Livingston School - Wednesday,
August 217, 9:00-11:30
Porterdale School - Thursday,
August 28, 9:00-11:30 if their
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Boys’ Juvenile
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Case Continued
Two young Covington boys,
ages 7 and 12, had their hearing
continued until August 22 in New=
ton County Juvenile Judge Jim
Morgan’s Court Friday, Thetwo
minors are facing tampering ch
arges on a railroad switch that
wrecked a Georgia Railroadtrain
in Covington on Sunday evening,
The boys were remanded to
the custody of their parents un
til the hearing continues,
Rev. Healan Ends
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Ministry At Calvary
Rev, Claud Healan, Jr,., Pastor
of the Calvary Baptist Church in
Covington since 1967, will end his
Ministry here on Sunday August
10th,
He and his family will move to
the Athens area where he will
serve as the Pastor of the Mars
Hill Baptist Church, He will as
sume his duties there on Sunday
August 17th,
logical Seminary in Richmond,
and did graduate work at the
University of Edinburgh in Scot
land.
In addition to his pastorates,
Dr. Gibboney has taught Bible
at Hampden-Sidney College, has
served as Secretary of Promo
tion, Board of Church Extension,
Presbyterian Church, U, S, He
was once editor of ¢Christian
Living’”’, a monthly religious
journal. He is author of ‘“Front
iers of Hope’’, ‘‘How to Live at
Your Best’” and ‘‘More Power to
You’’, He also created *“A Th
ought a Day for Every Day’ and
¢¢Mini-Sermon for Today’’,
Dr. Gibboney will be at Salem
for the annual series of meet
ings Aug, 8-15th,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. 1969
last name begins with the letters
from A through M. 1:30 to 4:00
if their last name begins with
the letters from N through Z,
Children entering R. L, Coun
sins FElementary, East Newton,
and Washington Street schools
will be tested after school opens
on Sept. 3,4, and 5. Since
these will be school days the pa
rents responsibility is to have
the child at school.
An Almon man is being held
in the Newton County jail charg
ed with murder in the shotgun
death of Jimmy Sherman Harper,
31, of Route 5, Covington, accord=-
ing to the Newton County Sheriffs
Department,
John T. Hall was taken into
custody by the Sheriffs Dept. af=-
ter Harper was killed with a shot=
gun blast Saturday night on old
Salem Road. The incident took
place about 9:30 p. m,
County Red Cross Chapter
Makes Plans At July Meeting
The July meeting of the New=
ton County Chapter of The Am=
erican Red Cross was called to
order by the chairman, William
K. Barnett. The meeting was
held at Hercules Incorporated.
Members present were: Dr, Car
los Meyer, J. T. Fields, Mrs.
Jewel Touchstone, R. T. Floyd,
Mrs. Peggy Moss, Mrs. Bobbie
Haynes, Mrs. Betty Robinson,
F. C. Kaempffe, Sutton Hardy,
Malcolm Kessinger, W, K, Bar
nett, Herbert Katz and Homer
George.
The invocation was given by
Dr. Carlos Meyer and the min
utes of the April 23, meeting
were reviewed by Mr. Barnett
due to the absence of the secre=
tary.
Malcolm A. Kessinger was no=-
minated and elected to the posi
tion of Director of Public Rela
tions for the Newton County Chap
Blankenship, Bradley In All-Star Roles
Newton Ram Coach Ronald
Bradley and his All-State Cen
ter, Thad Blankenship, will lead
a contingent of North Georgia
High School All-Star basketball
players into the 1969 game at
Macon’s Coliseum tonight (Th
ursday) at 8 o’clock,
This year marks the second
time Bradley has been named
head coach of the twinkle team
that pits the best high school
cage players of the Northagainst
the South, In 1965 he was the
coach of the team that upset
McCart, Capes
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Comm. Meefing
Two Newton County Commis=
sioners have returned to Cov=
ington after attending the Nat
fonal County Commissioners
meeting in Oregon, They are
E. M, McCart and Oliver Capes,
The commissioners made the
trip at their own expense, They
reported an informative and en=
lightening convention and many
vital topics were discussed at
the sessions,
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Temperatures in Covington
during the past week, according
to local Weatherman Jack Chap=
man, were:
High Low
Wed,, July 30 90 64
Thur,, July 31 89 65
Fri., Aug, 1 90 68
Sat,, Aug, 2 89 67
Sun,, Aug, 3 6 69
Mon,, Aug, 4 i 65
Tues,, Aug. 5 84 65
Rainfall totaled .68 inches.
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Rev. Gibboney
UF Meeting Tuesday 2 PM
The regular quarterly meet
ing of the Covington-Newton Co=
unty United Fund will be held
Tuesday, August 12 at 2 P, M,
at the office of the Fund, uzf
Floyd Street,
All officers and trustees are
urged to attend this meeting, ac~
cording to Ted Stroud, Acting
President,
Other officers include: Second
Vice-President, Chuck Murphy;
Third Vice-President, Bill Riley;
ter of The American Red Cross.
Mr. Kessinger outlined the pro=-
nosed programs for developing
a public relations program for
the county chapter and pointed
out the need for public relations.
This received the full endorse=
ment of the board of directors.
Walter Partee Is
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New City Manager
Walter Partee has taken over
his duties as City Manager in
Covington, Mr. Partee started
his work on Friday, August 1.
The new City Manager recent=
ly held an executive position
with Lockheed Georgia in Ma=-
rietta. The Partees have lived
in Covington for sometime. He
succeeds Bob Mauny who tock a
position as City Manager of De
catur earlier this year.
the &psters 87-82 at Alexander
Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta,
Twice as assistant coach toE, P,
Jones of Headland and Hart Cou=
nty’s Bill Ensley, Bradley help=
ed the North win their games al
though being tabbed as under~
dogs.
Blankenship, a three-year vet
eran of the Newton team, came
into his own during the past
season, and he was mainly res
ponsible for the club’s fine 22-
5 overall record, Blankenship
averaged 21.3 points per game
in 27 tilts, He also hauled
down 13,4 rebounds per game
during the year,
Probably the biggest worry
awaiting Coach Bradley and his
North All-Stars tonight will be
devising a plan to stop the scor=
ing of two of the South’s great=-
est players, Dan Kirkland of Col~-
umbus and Robert (Peanut) Mur
phy of Greenville, Kirkland,
during the year, averaged 33,5
points per game, and Murphy
scored at a per game clip of
31 markers.,
Bradley’s biggest scorers dur=
ing the past season were Aaron
Nix of Rockmart with an aver=-
age of 25 points, Gary Jones of
Murray County 25,6, and Robert
Harris of the State AA Champ
Carver team, 29 points,
Breakins Here
Friday Night
Covington City Police are
seeking thieves who robbed the
Emory Street Market and at
tempted to break open a safe at
the Freeman Tire Company
sometime Friday night,
Police said that the robbers
took about S2OO in cash at the
market after forcing open a plate
glass window, The entry to the
tire company was made via a
back window, An attempt was
made to break open the safe with
a blunt instrument of some kind,
but they failed to do so.
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Fourth Vice-President, Jack
Christian; Treasurer, Robert O,
Arnold and Secretary, Mrs, Patsy
Britt,
Trustees include: Mrs, Helen
Dickinson, Donald Stephenson,
Dr; James Purcell, Dr, Dallas
Tarkenton, Philip Cohen, Miss
Annie C, Hays, Ed Robinson, E,
G, lLassiter, Robert Mitcham,
Henry Caulkins, Dr, Sam B, Hay
Sr., S, J, Morcock and Rev, Tom
White,
Mr. Barnett proposed that the
Newton County Chapter take onas
its next project the program of
supplying and furnishing ‘‘ditty
bags’® for armed service per
sonnel in Viet Nam. Also,acer=
tain number of bags will be sup
plied to the VA Hospital in Geor=-
gia. Newton County has been re=-
quested to furnish 75 ditty bags
— total cost of approximately
$350, These bags are to con=-
tain such items as combs, mir
rors, stationery, pencils, thread,
needles, etc. The committee
agreed. that this was an excel
-lent opportunity for Newton Coun=
ty to render wholehearted support
to a worthwhile program.
Also on the ditty bag program,
Mr. Barnett indicated that the
county chapter had pledged to fur
nish 50 ditty bags to the VA Hos
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Coach Bradley’s assistant is
Donald E, Dollar, who guided
the Eva Thomas High School
Class B team to the State title,
Head Coach of the South is J, B,
Hawkins of Crawford County, He
had the Class C State champs
last March, His assistant is
Roy Robinson of Appling High
of Macon,
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on basketball from Coach Ronald Bradley of the North Georgia High School All-Stars at Macon prior to
the 1969 twinkle game tonight at the Macon Coliseum, Thad is a member of the 12-man squad that
opposes the South squad, Game time is 8 P, M,
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Salem Camp Ground’s 1969 Ane
nual Meeting, the 141st event sin
ce 1828, will start Friday evening
and continue through Friday, Au
gust 15. Two prominent minis
ters will be the speakers at the
two-a=day services starting on
Saturday. Sunday there will be
three services in the age-old Ta
bernacle.
Rev. A, Jason Shirah of Col=
umbus, Georgia, and Rev. Char
les Gibboney of Bristol, Tenn.
are the mainspeakers, with Bish=-
op John Owen Smith bringing the
message on Sunday morning at 11
o’clock.
Mr. shirah is pastor of the St.
Luke Methodist Church in Col
umbus. He is one of the leading
Methodist ministers in the State
of Georgia.
Rev. Gibboney is pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church in
Bristol. He formerly held the
pastorate at the Reid Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Augusta.
Reid Memorial is the church most
attended by the late President
Dwight D. Eisenhower when he
visited Augusta.
Mr. Gibboney is a native of
Roanoke, Virginia, and is a gra=-
duate of the University of Vir
ginia, Union Theological Semi
nary, and did graduate work at the
University of Edinburgh, Scot
land.
From 1939 until 1941 he taught
Bible at Hampden=-Sydney College
in Virginia. He once edited ¢‘Ch
ristian Living’, a monthly re
ligious journal. He is also the
author of three books: ‘‘Frope
tiers of Hope,’” “How to Live at
Your Best,” and ‘““More Power
to You.”
The director of music for the
meeting this year is Dr. John
Tate, pastor of Allen Memorial
United Methodist Church, Oxford.
The pianist will be Mrs. Nat Long
of Decatur,
Classes for all ages will be held
daily Monday through Friday.
Special groups such as civic
clubs, Sunday School classes,
men’s clubs and other groups are
scheduled to be present each
evening of the 1969 meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Cor=-
ban are the new caretakers of
the Salem grounds this year and
they also operate the hotel. Mr.
and Mrs. J, T. Jaynes retired a
year ago as caretakers at Salem,
Meals will be served in the hotel
dining room to the general public
at a nominal cost.
The famous ‘/Kitty’s Cottage’
will also be open during the
meeting, This is the original
building constructed by Bishop
Andrew for his slave Kitty. The
controversy over Kitty was the
cause of the split between the
Northern and Southern Metho
dist churches, which occurred in
1844 and lasted until 1937 when
the two churches were united
Blankenship’s selection to the
team by Georgia high school co
aches marks the tenth player
from Newton High who has been
chosen to the North All-Stars,
Others were the late Billy Dean
Rutledge, Bob Mitchell, Billy
Shaw, Terry Smith, Tim Christ
ian, Stan Harris, Wayne Hall,
Bob Richardsonand Terry Schell,
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The speaking schedules of Re~
verends Shirah and Gibboney are
as follows: .
Rev. Gibboney: Saturday,
p. m.; Sunday, 8 p. m.; Mond'ay,
11 a. m,; Tuesday, 8 p. e
Wednesday, 11 a. m.; Thursday,
8 p. m.; and Friday, 11 a. me
Rev. Shirah: Friday, Aug.B,
8 p. m, Saturday, 11 a, ms;
Sunday, 8 p. m.,; Monday, 8
Pe Me; Tflesday, 11 a, m.; wea=
nesday, 8 p. m.; Thursday, 11
a. me; and Friday, 8 p. m.
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Kiwanis Speaker
Guest speaker at the regular
weekly meeting of the Covington
Kiwanis Club today at the Teen
Can building on Newton Drive
will be Walter Harrison of Millen,
Ga, Mr, Harrison is general
manager of the Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation (EMC),
Mr, Harrison is a past presi=-
dent of the National Rural Elec
tric Cooperative, Washington, D,
C, That organization represents
1,000 electric cooperativesinthe
United States.
He is presently an insurance
agent in Millen, as well as edi
tor of the local newspaper, The
Millen News. The co-op official
is also a farmer and prominent
layman in the South Georgia Con~
ference of the United Methodist
Church,
Mr, Harrison isaformer May
or of Millen, and has served in
the Georgia General Assembly
as state representative and sen
ator,
Program chairman for this
week at Kiwanis is Ed Robinson,
the ciub’s overall chairman for
the past seven months, He will
introduce the speaker,
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Mr, and Mrs, W, J, Dickey,
the delegates of the Covington
Kiwanis Club to the 1969 Inter
rational Convention in ‘Miami=
Miami Beach, spoke to the local
club Thursday. They gave their
report of the recent meeting,
Visitors at the meeting Thurs=
day included an inter-club from
Athens: Bill Galt, Lee Crippen,
Ed Lynch and Joe Martin; Walter
Partee of Covington, and Bob
Mizelle, also of Covington, The
club welcomed back Wendell W,
Crowe, who has been on an ex=
tended vacation,